Dario Rodighiero

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

Dario Rodighiero — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:18:40 +0000

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

Are you buying fake or authentic?

Dario Rodighiero — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:19:01 +0000

Certilogo finally releases the E-Commerce Controller, a system able to certificate the authenticity of a product on online auctions, like eBay and Subito.it. Take a look to the video to get an introduction, go to the ECC website to go in to details.

Certilogo

Dario Rodighiero — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:33:26 +0000

After four years at European Commission, a new job as interaction designer in Certilogo, Milano.

Certilogo advertisement from business website

Italian Information Architecture Summit in Pisa

Dario Rodighiero — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:10:47 +0000

On 7 and 8 of May I am going to attend to the Italian IA Summit in Pisa. For the conference Marta Motta and I will present a work whose title is Il Thesaurus del Nuovo soggettario interpreta SKOS. The paper, which regards a case of study about the SKOS use, is the result of a collaboration between the National Central Library of Florence and the Joint Research Centre, European Commission.

Pisa by Harald Haeusler, Flickr

Visualization of World Oil Consumption

Dario Rodighiero — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:09:28 +0000

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

in.fondo.al.mar

Dario Rodighiero — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:20:36 +0000

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

Pablo Valbuena

Dario Rodighiero — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:54:52 +0000

Pablo Valbuena artwork by Neural.it, Flickr

Dynamic mark

Dario Rodighiero — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:16:42 +0000

When I started working in the graphic design field, my master said logos must be fixed. Fortunately things are changing, so this is the most spreaded example of dynamic logo realized for the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen in 2009. The only similar example I remember is the Netscape logo cited by Lev Manovich in the Language of New Media.

The work has been realized by okdeluxe, a London-based design studio focused on interaction design and the design of media experiences. Companies like this demonstrate how the world of graphic design is now infected by programming languages. Now this concept is more and more evident, in fact using tools is not the final stage of graphic design, now we are able to go inside code for designing tools by ourself.

COP15 - Generative Identity Software by okdeluxe

Anobii vs. LibraryThing

Dario Rodighiero — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:35:20 +0000

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

Ponto, multi-thesaurus tool

Dario Rodighiero — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:21:05 +0000

Finally the multi-thesaurus tool, a project in collaboration with FAO, BGS and BNCF, has a new name, Ponto, and a logo.

Pontus was part of the old-Greek mythology. Son of Gaia, he was the god of the Mediterranean Sea and the personification of the road connecting all the nations on this Sea.

Since Pontus means connections, we found appropriate to use his Italian name Ponto – rounder than English – as metaphor of the mapping among different controlled vocabularies.

Ponto's logo