[WEB4LIB] Re: Mooter search engine

[Robin Boulton]

I would just like to mention two sites I have found that provide visual
context tools that I find interesting; I offer this just for interest and in
case some of you are unaware of them. 
The first is Topic Map; you can see it at  http://highwire.stanford.edu and
the link is toward the bottom of the screen:
(Browse using TopicMap, a graphical viewer (what's this?))

The second is the Visual Thesaurus. Unfortunately they appear to have gone
commercial - when I first saw this you could go in and play for a long time;
now they only let you have 2 free tries. However it's still interesting.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp?content=%2fonline.jsp 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of Alain D. M. G. Vaillancourt
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:29 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Mooter search engine
> 
> I have been sifting through all forms of Web information visualisations
> (and non-Web ones too) for the last six years or so, and the only ones
> which have, I think, a solid basis for giving visual context and being
> eventually useful are the Enhanced Thumbnails from the former Xerox
> PARC (based on research by Allison Woodruff) and the favicons suggested
> (but never implemented on enough sites) by Internet Explorer.  The
> problem is that you really need a system based on the two since they
> are complementary.  Because there is no incentive to force or create
> such a combination I have the impression we are a long way off form
> visualisations that are more than just "cool".
> 
> See:
> http://www2.parc.com/csl/projects/enhancedthumbnails/
> 
> Alain Vaillancourt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  --- Brandon Dennis <bdennis at shreve-lib.org> a écrit :
> > I don't know.  As potentially "neat" as that is.  It seems
> > distracting
> > and unnecessary to me.  It's not really freeform information flow
> > (ala
> > Minority Report), but it's also not like a 3D hologram (ala Matrix
> > Revolutions white room).
> >
> > I like my searches to either be amazingly futuristic, or simple text.
> > Anything in-between is just extra nonsense I have to sort through.
> >
> > bd
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Shaw [mailto:SSHAW at COLEMAN.PVAM.EDU]
> > Sent: Fri 11/19/2004 11:39 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Cc:
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Mooter search engine
> >
> > another good example of this is Web Brain:
> >
> > http://www.webbrain.com/html/default_win.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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