Comments on: Match make/ paper prototype nifty visual interfaces for particular kinds of digital objects and collections http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/05/20/match-make-paper-prototype-nifty-visual-interfaces-for-particular-kinds-of-digital-objects-and-collections/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:19:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Gary Greenberg http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/05/20/match-make-paper-prototype-nifty-visual-interfaces-for-particular-kinds-of-digital-objects-and-collections/#comment-179 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:47:48 +0000 http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/?p=560#comment-179 I like the idea, too. I have a public media project around a music studio in an historic neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, I’d like to offer up as data for thought.

Public media organizations around the country are exploring the very types of visualization projects you describe.

]]> By: Jean Bauer http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/05/20/match-make-paper-prototype-nifty-visual-interfaces-for-particular-kinds-of-digital-objects-and-collections/#comment-160 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:19:28 +0000 http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/?p=560#comment-160 Great idea! I love the hands on, “what do you want this to look like?” approach. Something else to think about would be Protovis from the Stanford Visualization Lab.

]]> By: briancroxall http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/05/20/match-make-paper-prototype-nifty-visual-interfaces-for-particular-kinds-of-digital-objects-and-collections/#comment-138 Tue, 31 May 2011 20:09:13 +0000 http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/?p=560#comment-138 At the risk of not adding much to the conversation, I’ll just chime in to say that it’s a great idea and recommend that we think about the Periodic Table of Visualization, Alan Levine’s 50+ Ways to Tell a Story, and these 50 examples of data visualization.

]]> By: amandavisconti http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/05/20/match-make-paper-prototype-nifty-visual-interfaces-for-particular-kinds-of-digital-objects-and-collections/#comment-37 Mon, 23 May 2011 05:10:30 +0000 http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/?p=560#comment-37 Great idea! Very interested in how we can allow different ways of exploring online cultural heritage collections through visualizations and non-traditional navigation.

I’m interested in ways of getting around the database/index/catalog structure of online archives, which can structure the way users perceive and interact with a site in ways that aren’t actually the site’s intended use. While easy to search through, linear lists make browsing (vs. searching) less serendipitous and enjoyable (to me, at least); they’re also limited by their available sort functions.

I’m particularly interested in ways to do this with Omeka. I recently set up a more serendipitous entry into the media items in my Omeka site (www.DigitalDosPassos.com), and I’ve seen similar work on more visually based entries into Omeka collections in the front-page slideshow in E. Bell’s “Deco” theme (goo.gl/Oyg7L) and a prototype by Chris Raymond (goo.gl/Bj5pG).

I’ll add the beautiful wefeelfine.org/ to our list of visualization examples; the site uses color-coding and captured images to organize a large amount of web-crawled blog quotations.

]]> By: wragge http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/05/20/match-make-paper-prototype-nifty-visual-interfaces-for-particular-kinds-of-digital-objects-and-collections/#comment-31 Sat, 21 May 2011 07:23:41 +0000 http://chnm2011.thatcamp.org/?p=560#comment-31 Sounds fantastic, count me in.

A couple of other experimental collection interfaces to consider:

Paul Hagon’s Search by colour (photos at the National Library of Australia)

Mitchell Whitelaw’s Commons Explorer (Flickr Commons)

And for data, all are welcome to play with my unnofficial API to the National Library of Australia’s 50 million odd digitised newspaper articles.

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