Adding Geospatial Data to Research

mpasiewicz — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:03:00 -0500

I could be dreaming this up, but if not, perhaps one of you can point me to a little more information. It seems like I had read somewhere that someone had received a grant to begin looking at various types of research and adding geospatial data to it. I know of a database or two that profiles characters in fiction books, their location, the setting, etc. And I know that many LC records include information about time period, setting, etc. It would be really cool to see this represented visually on a map. I can imagine something similar being valuable for browsing all kinds of materials. Google/Yahoo maps meets visual reference tool. I can imagine a slide control that displays research across areas by date, the ability to zoom in on concentrated areas. Who knows what we might serendipitously discover if we were presented with a contextually relevant GUI like that. Does it already exist out there?

Podcast on "Universal Access to All Knowledge"

mpasiewicz — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 03:29:00 -0600

ITConversations.com has an interesting podcast on Universal Access to All Knowledge by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. On the heels of my earlier blog entries on On Socially Assisted Information Discovery, Google Suggest/Folksonomies and Questia, Social Captial Metrics, etc., I'm even more encouraged with the potential for the future of knowledge in society.

EDUCAUSE | Information Architecture

Adding Geospatial Data to Research

Podcast on "Universal Access to All Knowledge"