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Visualization Experiments via the Laetus Site

Page not maintained, but serves as one indication of topic clustering (with others of this type)
Clarification of the variety of formats and access possibilities for all documents is provided separately,
including current indication of thematic organizations by topic/subject and visualization

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Access to images on the Laetus site
Experimental visualization of networks
PPT presentations (with images)

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Access to images on the Laetus site

As part of its indexing process, Google offers access to images on the Laetus site. The search results indicate the web documents in which the images are located. The search queries can be modified after any of the search results below are presented by Google. In inserting the images into web documents, systematic use has not been made of labelling options in the source code (use of "alt" to specify the image title for search engines). This means that the Google indexing algorithm may make assumptions from the title otherwise indicated in a table, or possibly from the title of the document as a whole.

Use of the Google image facility offers the following possibilities (but with no guarantee regarding the ability of Google to interpret the queries unambiguously):

• all images (2,700+) -- this corresponds to the following query in the search facility: site:laetusinpraesens.org
• selected images
  • images by theme: depends on the addition of one or more keywords to the Google image search string (if the theme can been explicitly associated with the image in some way, although results are unpredictable). Some indicative examples of possible interest:
    • network images -- this corresponds to the following query: network site:laetusinpraesens.org
    • problems images -- this corresponds to the following query: problems site:laetusinpraesens.org
    • mapping images -- this corresponds to the following query: mapping site:laetusinpraesens.org
    • dynamics images -- this corresponds to the following query: dynamics site:laetusinpraesens.org
    • strategy images -- this corresponds to the following query: strategy site:laetusinpraesens.org
    • animation images -- this corresponds to the following query: animation site:laetusinpraesens.org
  • images by decade, for example:
    • images for 2010-now (400+) -- this corresponds to the following query: site:laetusinpraesens.org/docs10s
    • images for 2000-2009 (800+) -- this corresponds to the following query: site:laetusinpraesens.org/docs00s
    • images for 1990-1999 (100+) -- this corresponds to the following query: site:un-intelligible.org/
    • images for 1980-1989 (80+) -- this corresponds to the following query: site:laetusinpraesens.org/docs80s
    • images for 1970-1979 (70+) -- this corresponds to the following query: site:laetusinpraesens.org/docs70s
    • images for 1960-1969 (30+) -- this corresponds to the following query: site:laetusinpraesens.org/docs60s
  • images by year (if the year can be associated unambigously with the image -- the decade facility is preferable), for example:
    • year 2000 images -- this corresponds to the following query: 2000 site:laetusinpraesens.org
    • year 2010 images -- this corresponds to the following query: 2010 site:laetusinpraesens.org

Note that images on the associated website un-intelligible.org (relevant for the period 1990-1999) are not included in search results from the Laetus site. Results from that site for that decade are therefore used instead of those from the Laetus site. Also searches by decade do not include items in "generic" folders:

• images in musings (170+) -- this corresponds to the following query: site:laetusinpraesens.org/musings
• images unclassified (prior to 2000) (70+) -- this corresponds to the following query: site:laetusinpraesens.org/docs

Experimental visualization of networks

A variety of experiments have been conducted in the past through the Union of Intelligible Associations as a strategic initiative to visualize world problems, international organizations, global strategies and human values (as noted separately). These are partly illustrated by the following:

• on site of laetusinpraesens.org:
  • Selected Screen-shots of Problem and Organization Networks in Virtual Reality (PDF images)|
  • NetMap visualizations of questions, world problems, global strategies, and values
    • Problems and strategies: Energy / Water / Strategies against violence
    • Questions: Peace-related / Faith/Prosperity-related
    • Pattern-language
• on site of un-intelligible.org:
  • Selected presentations of interrelationships between UIA databases
  • Gallery of screen shots of virtual reality displays (interrelated problems or organizations)
  • Experimental representations of entity interrelationships (using SVG)
• on site of uia.org: Network visualizations (PDF images):
  • 2001: Spring maps (organizations, problems, strategies, values)
  • 2002: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values)
  • 2003: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values)
  • 2004: Network analyses (organizations, problems, strategies, values)

PPT presentations (with images)

• [2007] Rethinking Conference Interfaces: increasing participation value (0.3mb)
  Presentation at the Conference Ambassador Programme Seminar (Singapore)
• [2007] The Way We Meet, and The Way We Travel: When Technology and Guilt Collide (0.9mb)
  Presentation to Wired in Travel Asia (Singapore)
• [2006] Exploring Intelligible Associations: Ontological and process issues (7.7mb)
  Presentation to the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Saarbrücken)
  Prepared with Nadia McLaren on behalf of the Union of International Associations and the Spirit of the Land Foundation
• [2005] Meta-challenges of the Future for Networking through Think-tanks (3.8mb)
  Conference on the Futures of Europeans in the Global Knowledge Society Workshop on Networking the Future (Louvain-la-Neuve)
• [2005] Union of Intelligible Associations: Integrative design metaphors enabling strategic comprehension of the global brain (7.5mb)
  Presentation to the World Academy of Art and Science Conference theme: The Future of Knowledge: Evolutionary challenges for the 21st Century (Zagreb)
• [2001] UIA Strategic Overview (3.5mb)
  Draft prepared for the Union of Intgernational Associations
  
• [1999] East-West Collaboration in the Development of Interactive Media Products (0.6mb)
  Presentation of the Union of International Associations (Hungary)
• [1999] Beyond Sun, Sea and Sex: Conference marketing and communication issues of the future (0.5 mb)
  Presentation to the 5th IAPCO Forum: Deciding on the Future (Brussels)
• [1999] University of Earth: Questing for a more comprehensive dream (2.3 mb)
  Prepared with Diana James on behalf of the Union of International Associations and the Spirit of the Land Foundation (Pitjantjatjara lands)
• [1997] Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation (0.5mb)
  Project proposal for Info2000 prepared with Nadia McLaren on behalf of a consortium

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