Visits and Demonstrations

A large number of visitors, local, national, and international, were given tours of the ADL facilities and demonstrations of the WP. Amongst this large collection of visitors, we note the following:

• On October 28th, ADL hosted a presentation by Dr. Catherine Plaisant on ``Previews and Overviews to Support Visual Information Seeking in Digital Libraries.'' Dr. Plaisant works with the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of the University of Maryland and has designed interfaces both for the Library of Congress and NASA.

• Spatial Data and Visualization Center, University of Wyoming Computer Map Animation and GIS Modeling (September 1997)

• National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Metadata in Principle and Practice (September 1997)

• Institut fur Geographie, Universitaet Wien (Vienna Austria) Computing and Cartography - What Does the Future Hold? (June 1997)

• Institut fur Geomatik und Geoinformation, Technische Universitaet Wien (Vienna Austria) Global Geographic Data Delivery on the Internet (May, 1997)

• Department of Geography, University of California - Santa Barbara Visualization of User Browsing Behavior in a Web-Based Interface (Jan 1997)

• Beth Sandore, Associate Professor and Coordinator for Imaging Projects; University of Illinois

• Kimio Hosono, Professor, School of Library and Information Science; Keio University

• Journal of Geography group

• Orlie Brewer, Advanced Computing Technologist, Research and Technology Division, Boeing Information & Support Services

• ADL Demo at DARPA

• Nordic Metadata Project (BIBSYS, Norway; http://www.bibsys.no/english.html) and Helsinki University Library - National Library of Finland; http://linnea.helsinki.fi/gabriel/en/countries/finland.html)

• Chris Erickson, CEO of Red Brick Systems, a data warehouse firm.

• Nora Sabelli, Chris Dede, Andres Henriquez from NSF.

• Dr. Shiro Sakata, Associate General Manager and Dr. Yoshinori Hara, Senior Research Manager from NEC.

• Dr. Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech.

• Dr. Hiroshi Murakami, Head of Research, Geographic Survey Institute, Ministry of Construction, Government of Japan.

• Dr. Greg Smith and Dr. Richard A. Berg, NIMA Senior Scientists, NURI Program.