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15th February 2002

Categories for the Description of Works of Art

“Categories for the Description of Works of Art is a product of the Art Information Task Force (AITF), which encouraged dialog between art historians, art information professionals, and information providers so that together they could develop guidelines for describing works of art, architecture, groups of objects, and visual and textual surrogates.”

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15th February 2002

Concrete Aspects of Information Architecture

“Two IAs describe the deliverables an Information Architect creates. They show how User Scenarios, Interaction Flows, Architecture Maps, and Storyboards lead to better products.”

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15th February 2002

Categories for the Description of Works of Art

“Categories for the Description of Works of Art is a product of the Art Information Task Force (AITF), which encouraged dialog between art historians, art information professionals, and information providers so that together they could develop guidelines for describing works of art, architecture, groups of objects, and visual and textual surrogates.”

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15th February 2002

Information Visualisation

“Information visualisation is the visual presentation of information spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and understanding… These lecture notes have evolved over several years of teaching and talking about InfoVis.” Lecture Notes by Dr. Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology (Draft Version of 6 March 2000).

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15th February 2002

Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

“An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis: The graphic portrayal of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into histories of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, which are intertwined with each other. They also connect with the rise of statistical thinking up through the 19th century, and developments in technology into the 20th century. From above ground, we can see the current fruit; we must look below to see the its pedigree and germination. There certainly have been many new things in the world of visualization; but unless you know its history, everything might seem novel.”

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15th February 2002

WSJ’s $28 Million Renovation

“As online journalism’s poster child for commercial success, The Wall Street Journal Online would seem to be the last candidate for a massive site renovation. After all, when 625,000 subscribers care enough to pay for your content, you must be doing more than one or two things right. So why completely overhaul a Web site that works? And what on earth or online accounted for the $28 million price tag being bandied about?”

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15th February 2002

Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

“An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis: The graphic portrayal of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into histories of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, which are intertwined with each other. They also connect with the rise of statistical thinking up through the 19th century, and developments in technology into the 20th century. From above ground, we can see the current fruit; we must look below to see the its pedigree and germination. There certainly have been many new things in the world of visualization; but unless you know its history, everything might seem novel.”

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15th February 2002

Information Visualisation

“Information visualisation is the visual presentation of information spaces and structures to facilitate their rapid assimilation and understanding… These lecture notes have evolved over several years of teaching and talking about InfoVis.” Lecture Notes by Dr. Keith Andrews, Graz University of Technology (Draft Version of 6 March 2000).

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15th February 2002

Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

“An illustrated chronology of innovations by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis: The graphic portrayal of quantitative information has deep roots. These roots reach into histories of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, which are intertwined with each other. They also connect with the rise of statistical thinking up through the 19th century, and developments in technology into the 20th century. From above ground, we can see the current fruit; we must look below to see the its pedigree and germination. There certainly have been many new things in the world of visualization; but unless you know its history, everything might seem novel.”

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15th February 2002

WSJ’s $28 Million Renovation

“As online journalism’s poster child for commercial success, The Wall Street Journal Online would seem to be the last candidate for a massive site renovation. After all, when 625,000 subscribers care enough to pay for your content, you must be doing more than one or two things right. So why completely overhaul a Web site that works? And what on earth or online accounted for the $28 million price tag being bandied about?”

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