From: jmcd@info.sims.berkeley.edu (Jerry McDonough)
Subject: Re: APPS: Big Picture(sm): Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases
Date: 30 Sep 1996 22:25:43 GMT
Message-ID: <52phd7$6uk@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley


In article <52m62h$nef@news.iastate.edu>,
Gerry McKiernan <JL.GJM@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU> wrote:
>The Big Picture(sm):
>
>                 Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases
>
>     For a planned review and clearinghouse, I am interested in
>learning of projects, research, products, or services that have
>applied 'information visualization' technologies to Web collections or
>bibliographical databases.  At this time, I am not interested in data
>visualization or the application of these technologies to pure text or
>document collections.
>

I don't know of anyone specifically applying VR approaches to USMARC
collections.  However, there's something related going on at Apple
with Project X (see http://www.atg.apple.com/go/Projectx/).  They're
trying to use the Meta Content Format to provide browsable, 3D
representations of metadata, specifically including the Dublin Core.

At one point, I believe the Internet Public Library folks at the
School of Information at Univ. of Michigan were discussing the
possibility of using VR technologies (although I don't think they are
totally happy with their explorations of MOO as a library technology,
and that may affect whether they try VR).

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