Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries pp 199–213Cite as

Visual Explorations for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2539))

Abstract

The Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype project addresses issues of access, browsing, delivery and understanding of georeferenced library items. Two visualization approaches that address these issues in different ways are under development: interfaces between some existing digital earth systems and the digital library, and spatial but nongeoreferenced information spaces. Both the abstract spatial and georeferenced projects are being evaluated for their educational potential in classroom and lectures, in labs and as tools for students to use on their own.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. McPhee, John. Assembling California. Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, NY. 1993.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Janée, Greg and James Frew. The ADEPT Digital Library Architecture. Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL’ 02), Portland, OR, July 14–18, 2002.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Cai, Guoray. GeoVIBE: A Visual Interface to Geographic Digital Library. Proceedings of the First Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries Workshop, Roanoke, VA. June 28, 2001.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Koller, David, with Peter Lindstrom, William Ribarsky, Larry F. Hodges, Nick Faust, and Gregory Turner. 1995. Virtual GIS: A Real-Time 3D Geographic Information System. Proceedings of Visualization’ 95. GVU Technical Report 95-14.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Herman, Ivan, with Guy Melançon and M. Scott Marshall. 2000. Graph Visualization and Navigation in Information Visualization: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Visualization anc Computer Graphics, Vol. 6 No. 1, January–March 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Bush, V. As We May Think. The Atlantic Monthly July: 101–8 1945.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Engelbart, D. Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and an Open Hyperdocument System. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Los Angeles, CA, October 7–10, 1990, pp. 143–156.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Drexler, K. Eric. Engines of Creation, The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. 1986. http://www.foresight.org/EOC/index.html, see Ch. 14 (“The Network of Knowledge”) in particular.

  9. Park, J. Thinking about Markup Languages in the Context of Complex, Urgent Problems. 2002. http://www.nexist.org/em2002.

  10. Leazer, Gregory H., Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland and Christine L. Borgman. Evaluating the Use of a Geographic Digital Library in Undergraduate Classrooms: ADEPT. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, 2–7 June 2000, San Antonio, TX (ACM Press, 2000): 248–249.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Fabrikant, S. I. and Buttenfield, B. P. “Formalizing Semantic Spaces for Information Access” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 91: 263–280. 2001.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Benedikt, M. Cyberspace: Some Proposals. In Cyberspac: First Steps, edited by M. Benedikt. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1991.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Ancona, D. 3DXML: Authoring, Publishing and Viewing Structured Information. VRML Consortium’s Database Working Group. 1998 whitepaper. http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/dbwork/ancona/home.html

  14. Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J. and Gregory H. Leazer. Iscapes: Digital Libraries Environments for the Promotion of Scientific Thinking by Undergraduates in Geography. Proceedings of the First ACM-IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 24–28 June 2001, Roanoke, VA.

    Google Scholar 

  15. Chen, C. & Paul, R. J. Visualizing a knowledge domain’s intellectual structure. IEEE Computer, 34(3), 65–71. 2001.

    Google Scholar 

  16. Buzydlowski, Jan W., Howard D. White and Xia Lin. 2001. Proceedings of the First Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries Workshop, Roanoke, VA June 28, 2001.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Chen, C. Visualising Semantic Spaces and Author Co-citation Networks In Digital Libraries. Information Processing & Management 35(3), 401–420. 1999.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Boyack, Kevin W., with Brian N. Wylie and George S. Davidson. Information Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, and Cognitive Psychology: Domain Visualizations. Proceedings of the First Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries Workshop, Roanoke, VA June 28, 2001.

    Google Scholar 

  19. Schvaneveldt, Roger W., ed. Pathfinder Networks: Theory and Appliations. AblexNorwood NJ. 1990.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Chen, C. Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments. London: Springer-Verlag. 1999.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Munzner, Tamara. Interactive Visualization of Large Graph Networks. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University. 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  22. Miller, George. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information. The Psychological Review, 1956, vol. 63, pp. 81–9.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  23. Miller, George. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information. The Psychological Review, 1956, vol. 63 ibid, pp. 38–39.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Miller, George. The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information. The Psychological Review, 1956, vol. 63, pp. 81–9 ibid.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype, USA

    Dan Ancona, Mike Freeston & Terry Smith

  2. Department of Geography, UCSB, USA

    Sara Fabrikant

Authors
  1. Dan Ancona
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Mike Freeston
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Terry Smith
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Sara Fabrikant
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 10th Street and Jordan Avenue, Main Library 019, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Katy Börner

  2. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, 19104-2875, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Chaomei Chen

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2002 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Ancona, D., Freeston, M., Smith, T., Fabrikant, S. (2002). Visual Explorations for the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype. In: Börner, K., Chen, C. (eds) Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2539. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36222-3_15

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36222-3_15

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-00247-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-36222-7

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation