[Esip-viz] Viz Cluster: VisKo, Wed, 10/24 @ 2pm ET

[Kevin Ward]

Thanks to everyone who attended the demonstration of VisKo yesterday.
If you were unable to attend or want to review the demonstration
(there was a lot to digest), links to the slides and to a recording of
the WebEx are available on the Viz cluster wiki page:

http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Visualization/Telecon_Minutes

Thanks again to Nick!

Kevin

Kevin Ward
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Kevin Ward <kevin at eyeonclimate.com> wrote:
> This month we will participate in an in-depth demonstration of VisKo
> -- a framework that supports the creation and answering of
> visualization "queries" that abstract the visualization process away
> from individual toolkits (e.g., GMT, NCL, etc.). It is also a very
> interesting application of semantics being used to describe the nature
> of generating visualizations in terms of operators, the visual
> abstractions the operators generate and the viewers that present those
> visuals.
>
> Visualization is definitely becoming a web activity: Protovis moving
> into DOM-based D3 components; traditional ParaView components are now
> available as WebParaView components, to mention some. With this shift,
> developers can now share visualizations that are still contained
> within the context of the services that generated them, rather than
> sharing only snapshots of the visuals. This affords visualization
> consumers with the capability of being able to manipulate the
> visualizations they download from Websites or receive in emails and
> tailor them for their own specific needs without ever having to
> download and install the toolkits that generate them.
>
> VisKo is one integrative approach for generating visualizations over
> the Web and is backed by cutting edge semantic capabilities that
> support automated orchestration of Web hosted visualization services.
> With VisKo, visualization generation processes are abstracted away in
> the form queries that provide declarative means for users to specify
> what visualizations they want generated. Rather than sharing static
> snapshots of visualizations, VisKo users can now share queries, which
> still allow recipients to adjust properties of visualizations without
> ever having to download and install the toolkits that process them.
>
> http://trust.utep.edu/visko/
>
> If this sounds interesting to you, please join us tomorrow (Wed,
> 10/14) at 2pm ET!
>
>
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>
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>
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>
> Kevin Ward
> NASA's Earth Observatory
> Sigma Space Corporation
> kevin at eyeonclimate.com
> 503-246-1608
> Office Hours 7:30am-4:30pm Pacific Time
>
> http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
> http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
>
> http://twitter.com/NASA_EO/
> http://www.facebook.com/NASAEarthObservatory
> http://www.facebook.com/NASAEarthObservations