Topics > innovations in digital media
Experimental work + interfaces etc.
- Technology Watch
- Online news sheet about technology matters from JISC
- kartoo.com graphic search site
- Try this interesting take on relating search results. Compare Historywired and Revealing Things, below.
- Digicult projects
- A range of glamorous Euro projects arising from the Digicult programme.
- University of Maryland, Human Computer Interaction Lab
- Interesting work on interfaces from the University of Maryland
- Smithsonian Institution
- The Smithsonian continues to explore ways of visually exploring large databases of complex information, such as museum collections databases. Historywired, though launched some time ago, is still a very interesting interface.
- Historywired
- Explore the Smithsonian's most iconic objects using interactive visual data mapping technology. The software was developed as a way of displaying information about the financial markets - see Smartmoney.com for that application of it.
- Revealing Things
- The Smithsonian also used Thinkmap software to allow people to explore its database. The software site is still well worth a visit, but the Smithsonian's implementation, Revealing Things, has now gone, it seems.
- The Museum Informatics Project
- A project at the University of California, Berkeley, to coordinate the application of information technology in museums and other organized, non-book collections.
