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Hi, Not sure if you're only after library examples, but you might like to have a look at Mitchell Whitelaw's Commons Explorer, which is an interface to all the images in the Flickr Commons. It currently runs as a standalone Java applet: http://creative.canberra.edu.au/cex/ This built on Mitchell's work on the Visible Archive project, which explored ways of visualising/browsing the collections of the National Archives of Australia. He developed two prototypes, one to give a picture of the whole collection, and one to drill down into a particular series. See the project blog: http://visiblearchive.blogspot.com/ There's also Paul Hagon's experiments in searching Flickr by colour: http://www.paulhagon.com/blog/2010/05/14/colours-of-a-tag/ Paul is also responsible for the very nice cover browser for the Australian Womens' Weekly: http://trove.nla.gov.au/aww/covers? I've been playing around with randomness and serendipity in the History Wall, which brings collection material from the National Museum of Australia together with material from a variety of other sources, including the National Library's Trove newspaper database. This version was created for the Museum's Irish in Australia exhibition: http://historywall.nma.gov.au/irish/ There's also a few other little collection browsing demos I've been playing with here: http://labs.nma.gov.au/demos/seeing/ I've also been working on finding ways of exploring and visualising the holding of the National Library's newspaper database. See these graphs for example: http://wraggelabs.com/shed/trove/graphs/ Most of the graphs are clickable, so you can retrieve sample entries from the database and start to explore the actual contents. There's another example of the possibilities here: http://discontents.com.au/shed/experiments/when-did-the-great-war-become-the-first-world-war Finally (sorry for the long list) you might be interested in experiments I've been doing lately in using facial detection to extract photos of people from records of the National Archives of Australia and use them as a way into the records themselves. There's a blog post about it here: http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/archives-shoebox/the-real-face-of-white-australia And you can browse the faces here: http://invisibleaustralians.org/faces/ Hope that helps! Cheers, Tim -- Dr Tim Sherratt ([log in to unmask]) Digital historian for hire Adjunct Associate-Professor, Digital Design + Media Arts Research Cluster, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra Words - http://www.discontents.com.au Experiments - http://wraggelabs.com Tools - http://wraggelabs.com/emporium @wragge on Twitter On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Julia Bauder <[log in to unmask]> 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) > > Grinnell College Libraries > > 1111 Sixth Ave. > > Grinnell, IA 50112 > > > > 641-269-4431 >