Visualising the south Yorkshire floods of '07

This paper describes initial work on developing an information system to gather, process and visualise various multimedia data sources related to the South Yorkshire (UK) floods of 2007. The work is part of the Memoir project which aims to investigate how technology can help people create and manage long-term personal memories. We are using maps to aggregate multimedia data and to stimulate remembering past events. The paper describes an initial prototype; challenges faced so far and planned future work. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval] General Terms Algorithms, experimentation. Keywords Visualisation, data aggregation, web mining, Google Maps.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: GIR
• Authors: Paul Clough, Robert Pasley, Stefan Siersdorfer, José San Pedro, Mark Sanderson
• Keywords: GIR 2007, Information Management, Initial Work, Multimedia Data, Multimedia Data Sources