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Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre

Combining the real world and abstract visualization

Stuart Dunn

Centre for e-ResearchKing’s College London

VizNet conference

Loughborough, 8th May 2008


Key issues

> Descriptive semantics

> Underlying assumptions

> Integration of space and time

> Integration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…)


Descriptive semantics


‘We cannot take control of a disciplinary vocabulary and impose it on other researchers. We are are not all logicists. I am certainly not a

logicist, and I never will be.’




Ecotricity wind turbine, Reading


Underlying assumptions



Google Earth [v. 4.2 (beta)]

Berkshire [v. 1.0]

Ecotricity

Asda, Lower Earley




Integration of space and time






e.g. roads, rivers

e.g. places

e.g. countries, territories etc

Geographical Information Systems: (vector) GIS

Integration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…)



Arts and Humanities e-Science Support CentreIntegration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…)


Map 5.6 (NB: insets not to scale)




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