Project Suggestion: UVA

• Number of people: 2
• Goal: To install UVA at VT, and make it OAI compliant.
• Contact information: The key person regading UVA is Carlos Proal (carlos@mail.udlap.mx), who works with Alfredo Sanchez (alfredo@mail.udlap.mx). Ryan Richardson (ryanr@vt.edu) is a GRA involved in some of this.
• Required background: interest in visualization
• Description: We need to work with our partners in an NSF project that is exploring interoperability of digital libraries. This is in connection with the U-DL-A project. Here the focus is regarding visualization. See also an illustration. Some background papers include:
  • Proal Aguilar, C., S nchez, J. A., Fern ndez, L. 2000. UVA: 3D representations for visualizing digital collections. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Visual Computing (Visual 2000, Mexico City, Sept. 18-22). 185-192.
  • Amavizca, M., Sánchez, J. A., Abascal, R. 1999. 3DTree: Visualization of large and complex information spaces in the Floristic Digital Library. Memorias del Taller de Interacción Mediada por Computmdora del Segundo Encuentro de Computación (ENC'99, Pachuca, Hidalgo, México, Sept.).
• Students involved: