Tues. March 3, 2 pm - 3 pm, DIRC training room
Fantastic and beautiful visual displays for libraries
Nicole Hennig & Allison Benedetti
Tour
a tour of different visual browsing interfaces:
- TED Talk: Photosynth and Seadragon demo
- Cooliris (FIrefox extension)
- Dipity (timelines) - example 1 - example 2
- Flickr embed tools
- Flickriver's badge creator
- PhotoZoom (Silverlight Deep Zoom - Microsoft Live Labs)
- examples: Hard Rock Cafe
Nicole's test album
visual browsing for search results:
- Searchme visual search
- Viewzi visual search
- Managed Q's Google Search
- Amazon's windowshop
Hands-on
Tools for embedding these into your web site: (how to)
samples: http://libguides.mit.edu/visual
- Cooliris:
embed wall - sample
quick & simple
test page: object of the month
test page: MIT Libraries photo tour
- Dipity:
create account
"my topics" - Dewey Library renovation - sample
Nicole's reading list
- Flickr tools (click "slide show" / "share" / "grab the embed URL")
MIT Libraries photos - sample
slide show
- Flickriver - sample
- PhotoZoom - sample
Some sources of images:
- Architecture and planning: MIT Open Courseware on Flickr
- MIT Libraries Flickr account
- MIT Libraries photo tour
- MIT Institute Archives - object of the month
- Library of Congress Flickr account
Brainstorm
ideas for what we could do
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Further reading
Three unique search engines of the future
Dipity: Visualizing the Passage of Time
Cooliris Lets You Enable Your Web Site for 3D in Minutes
Seattle public library visual display of books checked out
