Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Other people’s projects

These projects are reimagining the way we interact with information. I'm geeking out on all of them, big time!

Liquid Information Project

  • By researchers at the University College London Interaction Center (UCLiC) and Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse.
  • Turns all text on web pages into “hyperwords"– as you read a page, you can “hover” over any word. The word becomes a link, with a menu of choices – you can Google the word, look it up in a dictionary, or find the word elsewhere in the page. Try the demo!

Preserving My Heritage

  • By the Canadian Conservation Institute.
  • Preservation tips for everday treasures, from books to quilts to musical instruments. Take a fun 3D tour of a home, finding out how to preserve items in each room, or skip the fancy animation and jump right to a list of (nicely illustrated) items.

Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership

Open Video Project

  • By Simmons GSLIS prof Gary Geisler
  • This "on-going effort to develop an open source digital video collection ... currently contains video or metadata for about 2000 digitized video segments and is accessed daily by users from all over the world."

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