From: Colin Godfrey To: siggraphdistrib@cs.umb.edu Subject: *CAL* SIGGRAPH/Boston at GTE Labs, Wed May 5 Date: Sunday, April 25, 1999 11:07 AM SIGGRAPH/Boston Meeting Announcement "Design Information Media Management System" and the "Media Mapper" Wednesday, May 5, 1999 at GTE Labs (auditorium), Waltham, MA Speakers: Larry Burks and David Kahle, Harvard University Graduate School of Design As the amount of information made available online increases, the problems related to information overload and navigation multiply. Through two projects, the Design Information Media Management System and Media Mapper, Digital Design Initiative (DDI) is working to address this issue as it relates to local, online resources. These systems provide tools that not only help people locate relevant digital information, but which also enable them to manage and personalize information once they find it. The Design Information Media Management System (DIMMS) is a web-based, image database system that, through additional cataloging and database design, provides contextual information about the contents of the online collection and tools for creating and annotating personal, sub-collections of images. Media Mapper is a tool for visually organizing data elements, allowing relationships to be established between web pages and/or local files. About the Speaker David Kahle is an educational technologist whose research centers on the uses of Internet-based technologies and computer mediated communications for learning and teaching. His experience has included the planning and development of networked learning environments in support of higher education, informal adult learning, and public outreach initiatives. At present he is leading the development of a digital media management and information system designed to provide on-line access to one of the nation's richest collections of architectural resources. He holds an Ed.M.from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is currently managing the Instructional Technology Group within DDI. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The Virtual Library" Libraries have always existed in parallel worlds. The library, as physical repository and place of social interaction, is a time-honored archetype. The library, as indexing system, is an abstract and systemic representation of the reality of organizing, archiving, and retrieving material in this repository. The Virtual Library project is our attempt to synthesize a new relationship between these physical and abstract worlds by re-investing the abstract indexing system with space-based concepts. A parametric model was developed as a virtual catalog to represent patterns and relationships between items in a repository based on varying search criteria. The Virtual Library was composed as an entry for an international competition, "Library for the Information Age," sponsored by the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA). Results of the competition will be announced by the end of March 99. The prototype developed for the Virtual Library Competition is a blend of HTML, JavaScript, Java, and VRML. About the Speaker Larry Burks received his Master of Architecture from the Harvard Design School (HDS) in 1997. He is intensely interested in exploring the representational issues of architecture in digital media. He received the Computer Graphics award at the HDS in 1996 for his innovative combination of geographic information mapping systems and CAD-CAM technology in the design studio. His thesis focused on the design of virtual environments on the World Wide Web. Larry has worked at architecture and communication firms in Boston and New York on projects ranging from modeling and animation to information design. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer and Thesis Advisor at the HDS, and is engaged in research for the Digital Design Initiative (DDI) at the HDS. In January, 1999 he founded ArtificialDesign together with George Liaropoulos-Legendre. ArtificialDesign focuses on the development of spatial multimedia systems for museums and other cultural institutions. When Wednesday, May 5, 1999. Networking time at 6:30 PM, announcements and feature presentation at 7:00 PM. Where Auditorium GTE Laboratories, 40 Sylvan Rd., Waltham, MA Directions to GTE Labs From Route 128 (interstate 95), get off at exit 27B, Winter Street, in Waltham. ->From I-95 (128) South the exit leads you right onto Winter Street. ->From I-95 (128) North, turn right at the light at the end of the exit, onto Wyman Street, turn right again at the next opportunity, onto Winter Street, and cross over I-95. Go West on Winter Street through 3 closely spaced traffic lights, staying in the right lane. The Cambridge Reservoir appears on your right and the entrance to GTE Laboratories (40 Sylvan Road) is on the left. About halfway past the buildings, turn right under a pedestrian bridge joining two buildings. The entrance is in the building on your right from the central courtyard. Park in the central lot, follow the signs pointing to Lobby 2 and the Auditorium and sign in at Lobby 2 (in the northeast-most building). ************************************************************************ SIGGRAPH/Boston Contacts WWW: http://www.siggraph.org/chapters/boston SIGGRAPH/Boston maintains a mailing list for e-mail announcements of meetings. Send e-mail to siggraphdistrib-request@cs.umb.edu if you want be added or dropped from this list.