Ben Shneiderman at the Univ. of Maryland Comp Sci dept has done a considerable amount of work in this area...
I would encourage browsing some of his current and past projects, linked from his site:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/
depending on what specifically you are interested in, a number of the products coming out of his lab are in production out in the wild...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Tod Olson
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:35 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing
>
> There's the Hermitage Museum, which uses IBM's Query By Image Content:
>
> http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-
> bin/db2www/qbicSearch.mac/qbic?selLang=English
>
> QBIC seems a bit long in the tooth now, but it's still kind of interesting.
>
> -Tod
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Julia Bauder wrote:
>
> > Dear fans of cool Web-ness,
> >
> > I'm looking for examples of projects that use visual(=largely non-text and
> > non-numeric) interfaces to let patrons browse/search collections. Things
> > like the GeoSearch on North Carolina Maps[1], or projects that use Simile's
> > Timeline or Exhibit widgets[2] to provide access to collections (e.g.,
> > what's described here:
> > https://letterpress.uchicago.edu/index.php/jdhcs/article/download/59/70), or
> > in-the-wild uses of Recollection[3]. I'm less interested in knowing about
> > tools (although I'm never *uninterested* in finding out about cool tools)
> > than about production or close-to-production sites that are making good use
> > of these or similar tools to provide visual, non-linear access to
> > collections. Who's doing slick stuff in this area that deserves a look?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Julia
> >
> > [1] http://dc.lib.unc.edu/ncmaps/search.php
> > [2] http://www.simile-widgets.org/
> > [3] http://recollection.zepheira.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *********************************************
> >
> > Julia Bauder
> >
> > Data Services Librarian
> >
> > Interim Director of the Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab (DASIL)
> >
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