Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-11-10 Thread Eric Hellman
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the stars of the DPLA sprint- ShelfLife http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/dpla/demo/app/ and BookWorm http://bookworm.culturomics.org/ Eric On Oct 27, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Julia Bauder wrote: Dear fans of cool Web-ness, I'm looking for examples of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-11-01 Thread John Fereira
-execute a search with just those words. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:11 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-31 Thread Julia Bauder
: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia Bauder Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing This is all fabulous, thank you! MapFast and the HathiTrust visualizations

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-31 Thread Cindy Harper
A couple years ago, I used a crossmap of LC call numbers to subject headings (admittedly out of date) to provide subject-labeled sort by call number on an experimental catalog

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-31 Thread Cindy Harper
Oh - looks like the item display didn't survive the transition to IIS 7 - I'll look into that. Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363 On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Cindy Harper char...@colgate.edu wrote: A couple years ago, I used a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Beccaria
Microsoft labs awhile back released a few visualization tools that might be of interest: 1. Deepzoom: quickly explore gigapixel sized images and collections of images. http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/deep-zoom/ Here's one of my favorite examples of Yosemite valley:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-31 Thread Cary Gordon
There is an event driven web server called node.js that I think is great for building visual systems. I have really only looked at it for map generation and management, but I think that it would be well suited for building systems to navigate any visual content. http://nodejs.org/ Thanks, Cary

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-28 Thread Margaret Anderson
Take a look at a visualization of HathiTrust works by call number http://www.hathitrust.org/visualizations_callnumbers -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia Bauder Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:27 PM To:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-28 Thread marijane white
Am I the only one who thinks that's a great example of pie chart abuse? If they had selected a bar chart instead it would be both a cool search interface *and* a useful visualization. On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Margaret Anderson ande...@tc3.edu wrote: Take a look at a visualization of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Noerr
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Julia Bauder Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing This is all fabulous, thank you! MapFast and the HathiTrust visualizations are exactly the kinds of things I was looking

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Sherratt
Hi, Not sure if you're only after library examples, but you might like to have a look at Mitchell Whitelaw's Commons Explorer, which is an interface to all the images in the Flickr Commons. It currently runs as a standalone Java applet: http://creative.canberra.edu.au/cex/ This built on