… visu­al­iz­ing your tags :)

The “Tag­ging” book by Gene Smith is out. I am still await­ing a paper copy, but had a chance to look at the online ver­sion already. It looks really com­pre­hen­sive, con­cise and cov­er­ing all impor­tant tag­ging con­cepts. Which is not easy for such a mov­ing tar­get topic.

Besides, my elas­tic tag maps visu­al­iza­tion is fea­tured on p.102f. Nice!

I would like to make you aware of the work­shop of inter­est for any­body into faceted search and related topics:

FIND ’08: 2nd inter­na­tional work­shop on Dynamic Tax­onomies and Faceted Search

Torino, Italy, Sep­tem­ber 1–5, 2008 (in con­junc­tion with DEXA 2008)

Impor­tant Dates:

Sub­mis­sion of papers: 15 March 2008 Noti­fi­ca­tion of accep­tance: 20 April 2008 Camera-ready copies: 15 May 2008

http://www.sig-find.org/find08/index.html

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I read into Yuri Engelhardt’s dis­ser­ta­tion “The Lan­guage of Graph­ics”, and I think it is a fan­tas­tic piece of work. As the title sug­gests, the the­sis sug­gests a lin­guis­ti­cally moti­vated approach to the analy­sis of graph­ics: based from a syn­tac­ti­cal analy­sis of space, objects and their rela­tions, Engel­hardt clas­si­fies and exem­pli­fies dif­fer­ent types of syn­tac­tic struc­tures in which graph­i­cal objects can be arranged in order to con­vey mean­ing. (more…)

My the­sis was awarded a price for the best Mas­ters The­sis at our uni­ver­sity. Although the com­pe­ti­tion was not that large, I am proud nev­er­the­less. I should be pretty much unstop­pable now :)

Much too late, but bet­ter than never: I attended the lovely FIND07 work­shop in Regens­burg, pre­sent­ing my work on the Elas­tic Lists. In the begin­ning, I felt a bit weird at the con­fer­ence, being the only designer in sight, but the work­shop itself was pretty inspir­ing and maybe also fruit­ful for the future.

So spe­cial thanks and greet­ings to

• Gio­vanni M. Sacco for the pio­neer­ing work, and the kind orga­ni­za­tion and intro­duc­tion to the workshop
• Sébastien Ferré for remind­ing me of for­mal con­cept analy­sis again, and the very inter­est­ing Camelis tool
• Yan­nis Tzitzikas for the very inter­est­ing talk and the “nego­ti­a­tion approach” to tax­on­omy map­ping — check You Say… We Say…

You can find my slides here. The change blind­ness video was copied from here.

On August 1st, a new earth­ling entered the scene. Sina and I are happy, tired, and –happy.

I will present my The­sis on Tues­day, 17.07.2007, 10.30am at FH Pots­dam, Pap­pelallee 8–9, Build­ing 5, Room 2.13.

Everybody’s invited to come!

Yes, it’s done.

Find the pdf here and an overview of the exper­i­ments and visu­al­iza­tions here and me in the sun :)

Check back, there might be more updates (espe­cially for Kon­duit) over the next cou­ple of weeks, as I am prepar­ing my final presentation.

And other than that, this blog will, of course, go on, with more visu­al­iza­tion and inter­ac­tion pieces, cri­tiques and discoveries.

There is an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion with David Wein­berger (author of “Every­thing is mis­cel­la­neous”) going on at the Well about folk­sonomies and metadata.

> Tag maps v5

PS: 12 days to go, wish me luck!