Spatial Metaphors for Visualizing Very Large Data Archives
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As people try to cope with massive amounts of electronic infoffi1ation, browsing through very large archives can frustrate and eventually impede the retrieval of infoffi1ation. The paper presents an approach to search catalogs of very large electronic archives, that combines computer visualization with the descriptive and analytical power of geography. This method is called "spatialization", referring to the application of spatial (and visual) metaphors for organizing large volumes of infoffi1ation that are not necessarily spatial in nature.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003