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Second Open Visualisation Workshop

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Details

• When: Saturday 21st June 2008, 11am - 5pm
• Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
• Map: http://tinyurl.com/58br3u

Participants

• Jonathan Gray, OKF
• Alberto Campagnolo, KCL
• Ioannis Doukas KCL
• Martin Dittus, Last.fm
• Emmanuel Delaborde
• Fred Labbe
• Ilya Dmitrichenko
• Julie Tolmie, KCL
• Ed Murfitt, RCA

Programme

Documentation

Feel free to add any notes or links to the notes on the workshop below!

Notes

• Alberto talked about his research on representing book structures
• Discussion and presentation on Vladimir Propp's work on the analysis of Russian folk tales. Representing narratives. Representing texts/corpora.
  • Presentation of the Proppian Fairy Tale Generator v1.0. Symbols stand for functions. Interest in visually representing this kind of plot analysis.
  • Discussion of Joseph Campbell and his work on comparative mythology (particularly "Masks of God")
  • How can we visually represent the structure of narratives?
• Showing of Jonathan Harris' - We Feel Fine
• Discussion of the taxonomy of complex subject matter for visualisation
• Martin Dittus:
  • notion that structures share common properties
  • taxonomy/folksonomy
  • objective (session) & subjective (genre, listening experience) characteristics
  • Pandora - taxonomy, social/cultural elements
  • Demonstration of Islands of music for last.fm
  • 2d mapping?
• Visualising many to many relationships
• Network visualisation
• Things that describe music listening habits
• Representing time: timelines and animation
• Viznet - taxonomy of visualisation technologies
• Discussion: What is visualisation? Visualisation process?
• Julie Tolmie showed synchronised audiovisual clips from http://www.chdh.free.fr/net/
• Plans for next workshop:
  • Decide it would be good for next time for people to choose a package, have several hands-on sessions introducing different packages
  • More demos
  • Building up a resource of different use cases, wish lists for visualisation technologies.

Links

Please record any post-event documentation here (blog posts, photos, etc.) - so people can find links to any writeups, comments and further thoughts all in one place!

Publicity

Please record any pre-event announcements here - so we have a record of where to announce in future!

www

• OKF blog 2008-06-13
• Sourceforge Prefuse forum, 2008-06-14
• Processing forum, 2008-06-14
• Upcoming 2008-06-14
• arts-humanities.net 2008-06-14

email

• open-visualisation
• okfn-discuss
• ok-london
• openlab
• ggobi
• vdg
• graphviz-interest
• view-theinfo
• jisc-repositories
• fc-uk
• cc-uk
• mysociety
• public-lod
• node.london
• lonix