Hello, something interesting for diary for start of next year.
cheers
martin

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EnVISION 2005: Exploring a new visualization infrastructure

http://vw.indiana.edu/envision05/

Workshop Organizers

    * Bonnie DeVarco, MediaTertia - Emerging Technologies in Education
[bio]
    * Katy Brner, Indiana University, School of Library and Information
Science, InfoVis Lab [bio]



Dynamic visualization provides a unique bridge between disciplines and
offers a way to synthesize information from myriad sources. Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) has evolved into a highly sophisticated toolset
for situated knowledge. Location-based services utilizing technologies
such as GPS and RFID tagging support the rise of spatially integrated
information and are resulting in new visualization tools that provide a
spatio-temporal context for multidisciplinary inquiry. New initiatives
such as the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS), the
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), the GeoVISTA Center, the
Information Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (IVC), the
CyberInfrastructure for the Geosciences (GEON) and the Alexandria Digital
Library (ADL) extended Gazetteer protocol are converging to support the
expansion of a new field of integrated visualization technologies.
Geovisualization takes advantage of human map reading skills and
encourages the assimilation of spatio-temporal information in a geographic
context by showing patterns on multiple scales. Information visualization
leverages similar cognitive skills towards analysis of ever-growing data
repositories.

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Goals

The primary goal of this one-day workshop on the Silicon Graphics Campus
is to bring together leaders in advanced visualization technologies,
scientific visualization, information visualization, semantic mapping,
GIS, computing and creativity to discuss the potential of a new, scalable
visual language that bridges the disciplines. In addition we will explore
unique applications of visualization tools to approach larger problems
such as mapping human knowledge in a geographic context and solving the
puzzle of life. Demonstrations of best of breed visualization will be
combined with the exploration of issues surrounding infrastructure,
technology and data standards. In a state-of-the-art visualization
environment, representatives from Silicon Graphics will demonstrate the
Visual Area Network (VAN) , Scalable Graphics and their new Linux-based
visualization system . This interdisciplinary group will then review
multi-institutional alliances and cyberinfrastructures that already exist
in order to identify new collaborations that can combine efforts toward
new standards that unify and make interoperable visualization tools and
educational content for all of the sciences, from Bio to Astro to Geo.

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Agenda

    * 9am  9:30: CBC Tour, Welcome, Introductions and Agenda

Presentations in the Reality Center

    * 9:30 - 10:30 Silicon Graphics - A brief history of advanced
visualization at SGI, Demo of Media Fusion, David Hughes
    * 10:30  11:10: The State of GeoVis, Digital Earth Evolution, Tim
Foresman, GeoMatrix, Paul Hansen, Geofusion, the GEON Grid
Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences, Eric Frost
    * BREAK 10 minutes

Hands-On Demonstration in the Visual Area Networking Lab

    * 11:20  11:50: Collaborative GeoVis with Cal-(IT) Eric Frost

Demos and Discussion in the Voyager Room

    * 11:50  12:40: Andr Skupin  The Spatialization of Knowledge, Katy
Brner - Mapping Knowledge and the InfoVis Cyberinfrastructure, Ramana Rao
- InformationFlow
    * 12:40  1:20pm: Lunch and Networking

Themed Discussions in the Voyager Room

    * 1:20pm  2:20pm: Cross-fertilizing GeoVis, InfoVis and SciVis
Challenges and Emerging Standards  leader: Katy Brner
    * 2:20pm to 3:20: Multi-Institutional Alliances and Growing
Cyberinfrastructures for Visualization  leader: Mike Liebhold
    * BREAK (10 min.)
    * 3:30pm to 4:30pm: Infrastructure Technologies (including "Research
Computing Infrastructure" by SGI) Leader TBD
    * 4:30pm to 5pm:Summary, Next Steps, Funding options, Preparation of
White Paper/Report



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martin dodge

cyber geography research
centre for advanced spatial analysis, university college london
gower street, london, wc1e 6bt, united kingdom

email: [log in to unmask] (remove the nospam bit)

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk       http://www.cybergeography.org
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:50:10 +0100
From: Patrik Svensson <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'martin dodge' <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: just a link

Hi Martin,

This looks interesting, doesn't it?

http://vw.indiana.edu/envision05/#agenda

I was invited earlier but I do not think I will be able to go.

Cheers,

Patrik