Hi Danny,
We've been giving this quite a bit of thought here too, and we've been playing with various tools including the Library of Congress's ViewShare: http://viewshare.org/
We've also been having a go with CartoDB to visualise place of publication over time (from 1000 to the present) http://cartodb.com/
We're also working quite a bit with the tools in D3: http://d3js.org/
None of these quite do what you're describing, but they do open up ideas for what's possible. And with some of these (and the right tech skills) you might well be able to do what you're imagining. What I will say is that using these tools requires some good knowledge of the data and a bit of programming skill. I can't use them personally, but I can work with programmers who can and we're exploring what opportunities the new views on the data can open up. Really interesting, iterative process.
Another place to keep an eye on is Harvard's metaLAB. They've recently released a data visualisation along the lines of what you're saying (sans images tho!) http://vimeo.com/46773161
Hope that helps, and good luck!
Joy
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Um. The Ngram thing is always awesome (Googley again tho') http://books.google.com/ngrams
Many Eyes might have some stuff? http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/
Might be some more on my bookmarks - I tend to like this stuff :-) https://pinboard.in/search/u:dmje?query=visualisation
Also will intro you to @ostephens (who may lurk on this list) and @psychemediaý on The Twitter - they'll have some ideas
Mike
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> Librarything for Libraries might be of interest
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> Hi
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> I'm on the hunt for products/tools/toolsets that might help me visualise bibliographic data in a fun-rather-than-academic kind of way, creating different ways to browse and investigate a list of between 200-2,000 individual book titles.
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> In my dreams I'd like something that could use a list of ISBNs to pull back a set of cover thumbnails which could then be thrown onto a map by place of publication, a timeline by year of publication, or even arranged by colour of the cover (I can dream).
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> It looks like the Google Books api can do pull back some of that kind of data, but it also seems heavily biased towards directing people to previews of the books (not necessarily something I'd want to do)
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> Any help by way of examples of things like this, APIs that might make this doable, telling me I'm mad etc, much appreciated.
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> Thanks
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> Danny
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