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Abstract
Information Cartography: Using GIS for Visualizing Non-spatial Data
Track: Modeling
Author(s): L. Old
Since Howard White and Belver Griffith proposed using authors as markers of "intellectual space," many in information science have made use of the metaphor between points in a real-world Cartesian coordinate system and points in abstract information spaces. "Spaces" now may be prefixed by the intellectual subtopic such as cyberspace, conceptual space, document space, vector space, information space, and so on. The common theme is the representation of information objects spatially--as maps. This paper presents methods and models for the visuo-spatial structuring of information, and systematizes the use of cartographic metaphors and techniques for application to nongeographic data.
L. Old
Indiana University
Information Science
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E-mail: jold@indiana.edu