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By rethinking how digital information and media have evolved, we intend to discuss how
Information Visualization is performing an essential role in the field of newspapers, and
how it can evolve with particular emphasis on content archiving for future access.
The presence of new visual structures used in fields such as digital archiving, have
questioned digital methods of preservation and how the interrelation between
information and access to knowledge is revealed. In digital newspapers, the development
of access and information retrieval processes has become an essential part of their duties,
but it is still in it’s infancy and dependent on text search rather then content awareness.
By outlining the links between Visual Archives and Information Visualization, with focus
on online press, we venture in a path of trial and error. This is present by the recognition
of lack of efficient articulation
between different types of contents, as well as between the
user interaction and the contents outcomes.
Thus proposing a visual lexicon that can adjust to the constraints of technology, different
user devices, and the promptitude of publication that a Web context demands it is
utmost relevant.
A combination of fields, with attention to visual perception and arbitrary conventions in
relation to image and content awareness, grants the association of concepts such as big data and thick data description, being part of the outcomes of this research a proposal to
a theoretical model grounded on prototyping testing in a newsroom office.
This empirical methodological approach is supported by a
low-fidelity prototype,
for iterative formative evaluations, fostering field’s observations with potential users
in order to identify the best visual components of a digital visual archive for online
newspapers. The challenge is to develop visual structures that preserve and present the
interconnections of news, information and knowledge to be seen, accessed and linked. By
making use of a lo-fi prototype of a visual digital archive we aimed, to test, re-test, and
find responses in dialogue, failure and retrial. The body of work shown here presents the
practical outcomes of the theoretical model.
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Visual archives Information visualization Prototype
Pedagogical Context
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University of Beira Interior / labcom.ifp