Communications of the ACM
Visualizing the non-visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents
INFOVIS '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Case study: fishing for information on the Internet
INFOVIS '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Research report: information animation applications in the capital markets
INFOVIS '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Web-Based Information Visualization
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
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This paper presents the query and visualization interfaces of the Master Environmental Library (MEL) system. MEL uses the World Wide Web (WWW) to make accessible distributed data whose metadata conform to the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) content standards for digital geospatial metadata. The interfaces are implemented as Java/sup TM/ applets and are more intuitive, interactive and possess greater functionality than their Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) counterparts. As well as querying, the interface allows users to visualize and manage the list of query results so that users can more quickly discover the datasets of real interest. Several new tools used to visualize attributes of the metadata are presented.