Short notice: I will re-play my xtopia talk from yes­ter­day today at BTK Berlin at 5pm. Partly pre­sent­ing my own work, plus a dis­cus­sion of visu­al­iza­tions around the US pres­i­den­tial elec­tions.

Update: Slides are online. Will upload the miss­ing videos (blank slides) soon­ish on vimeo. Please excuse the funky tem­plate, that was part of the xtopia requirements…

I will have a ses­sion at Viz­Think ’08 about visual tools for the socio-semantic web.

You can find a pod­cast inter­view with me about the ses­sion and ongo­ing work here.

The (pre­lim­i­nary) ses­sion abstract reads

In this break-out ses­sion at Viz­Think 08, Moritz Ste­faner will present visual strate­gies to under­stand and dis­cuss emer­gent infor­ma­tion archi­tec­tures in the web. Phe­nom­ena like the main­stream acknowl­edge­ment of the web as a social plat­form, and the first steps towards a seman­tic web (as envi­sioned by Tim Berners-Lee a decade ago) demand for new approaches to infor­ma­tion han­dling. Fol­low­ing the research agenda for web sci­ence, visu­al­iza­tion can not only help to under­stand these emrg­ing struc­tures, but also to shape and steer inter­face design. We will dis­cuss and crit­i­cize exist­ing and cutting-edge approaches to search and brows­ing of resources and the visu­al­iza­tion of con­cep­tual structures.

So, I planned to show some of my the­sis work, and on-going work like the MACE project, and make some gen­eral posi­tions state­ments about where things should head in this area. But the rest is pretty open – for those attend­ing – what are you inter­ested in? Happy about short comments!

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