[WEB4LIB] Visual site maps

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Hi Ernest/

>>> ernest perez <perez at opac.osl.state.or.us> 06/02 12:11 PM >>>
>A bit more on visual metaphors for information retrieval:

    Thanks for your latest posting on Information Visualization!
As you are aware, I have been interested in the application of
Information Visualization for accessing, organizing, and navigating 
Web (and non-Web databases) for the pasy few years.

  You will find the Kohonen as well as several other Information
Visualization technologies profiled in two of my clearinghouses

_The Big Picture(sm): Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases_ at 
[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/BigPic.htm ]

[Compiled with the assistance of Peter J. Wasilko ]

and

_Project Aristotle(sm): Automated Categorization of  Web Resources_ at:

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Aristotle.htm ]

   I have speculated the application of both in several journal and magazine articles, notably

"The Once and Future Library" in _Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship_ Fall 1996

and 

"As The World (Wide Web) Turns: Resources at Iowa State"
in _D-Lib Magazine_  August 1998

[http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07clips.html#GERRY]

>I'm curious, are there any "production" implementations of this approach in >libraries?

  More recently I speculate on this and other emerging technologies
and their potential for alternative information display and manipulation in my working essay "Morning  Becomes Electric: Post-Modern Scholarly Information Access, Organization, and Navigation"
at [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Morning.htm ]

In particular see the NAVIGATION section
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Morning.htm#Navigation

[BTW: This essay will form the basis of a presentation I will be making next week at the annual meeting of the Society for 
Scholarly Publishing in Boston, June 9 - 11, 1999 [ http://www.sspnet.org/ ]

[I will be staying at the Westin Copley; if there are Boston-area
Web4Libers who would like to join me for a beer (or two) let me know! ].

   Thanks again for recognizing the potential benefits of
Information Visualization.

    Regards,

Gerry McKiernan
Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer
and
Associate Professor
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu


   "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It!"
                              Alan Kay 
     http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML 


P.S. One of the best Information Visualization sites of which I am aware is that overseen by Ben Shneiderman called _OLIVE_

[ http://otal.umd.edu/Olive/ ]

Fo rmore information about Ben Shneiderman and Information Visualization ,see his "The Eyes Have It: User Interfaces for Information Visualization" at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/presentations/eyeshaveit/index.htm

AND

_Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think_

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/books/readings-info-vis.shtmll

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