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Mar 2nd, 2011

Il tesauro non è un dinosauro (The thesaurus is not a dinosaurus)

Posted by Dario Rodighiero under Design, Human Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Library and Information Science, Projects | Tags: AIDA, BGS, BNCF, dinosaurus, FAO, JRC, L'Italia delle Biblioteche, Psychology, stelline, Thesaurus, thesis |
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Finally I am at the end of student career. After three years of Computer Science, I am going to finish the Master’s Degree in Psychology at the University of Milan-Bicocca. To design an interface to manage thesauri is the subject of the thesis that has been written with the help of Gabriella Pasi, Carlo Ferigato and Luca Bernardinello. This work is important for me because it is part of the project at the JRC of Ispra, carried out in collaboration with FAO, BGS and BNCF.

The thesis is going to be presented tomorrow at Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan (map) during the conference L’Italia delle Biblioteche. The collateral presentation is organized by AIDA and Piero Cavaleri in Sala Verdi.

The day after tomorrow the thesis is going to be officially discussed at the University of Milan-Bicocca at the Department of Psychology.

The thesis is in Italian, I hope to have the time to translate it. Click on the image to get the full pdf of the thesis or click Il tesauro non è un dinosauro.

The thesaurus is not a dinosaurus, presentation cover of thesis

Recensioni:
Frammenti Semantici

Feb 23rd, 2010

Visualization of World Oil Consumption

Posted by Dario Rodighiero under Information Visualization | Tags: google earth |
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If you work on Google Earth, you really have the sensation to manipulate something. To have the capability to move and rotate a model of the Earth is really powerful, especially in information visualization. In fact more the user is involved in the interaction with something, more the interaction becomes transparent. And transparency of the interaction layer means direct connection to information.

Anyway Google Earth is an application which requires more study. I haven’t see very exciting examples of information visualization, but two works worth to be cited. One is an animation of international flights from the most important USA airports, the other is a really nice visualization of world oil consumption. In the picture, the red color represents on the left the USA and on the right the China oil consumption.

World Oil Consumption by John Jason Fallows

Feb 17th, 2010

in.fondo.al.mar

Posted by Dario Rodighiero under Information Visualization | Tags: google maps, sea, ship, sinking |
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Since I am working on Google Earth, I am interested in good examples of geographical visualization realized through Google applications. In this list I can easy include in.fondo.al.mar, a information-visualization project aimed to reveal the positions of maritime sinkings and incidents.

I really appreciate the possibility to switch among different data views: Map, Chronology, Statistics, Archive. I think that focusing different faces of the same data is important to have a good insight of displayed information.

The project has been realized by David Boardman and Paolo Gerbaudo.

in.fondo.al.mar by information aesthetics

Oct 22nd, 2009

Anobii vs. LibraryThing

Posted by Dario Rodighiero under Design, Information Visualization, Library and Information Science | Tags: anobii, Library of Congress, librarything |
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I am not a fan of social network systems, but when I arrived at the Ispra library I decided to join a books social network. Anobii was the choice.

The Anobii site is really nice, attractive and minimal as the Japanese style, but after three years I moved to LibraryThing for different reasons.

The main reason is that LibraryThing has more users I can share books with, especially in English. The other reason is that LibraryThing has been created by librarians, so the system uses some specific librarian features as the Z39.50 protocol or the Library of Congress subjects. Great for me.

I am really happy for the new choice, but I miss something. I miss the minimalism of information visualization, a clear and essential layout of web pages. From this point of view LibraryThing is a mess: you have too much information, often badly arranged. There is no whole view of the project, it seems that every single application is appended somewhere just after its creation. They have a quite serious design lack.

Is not possible to have LibraryThing library approach with Anobii interface?

Curtain of books by timtom.ch, Flickr

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