A free system automation standard description of information

A organização e a disseminação de conhecimento contido em acervos históricos têm sido uma constante preocupação; entretanto, há uma carência de sistemas de software para esse domínio. Nesse contexto, foi desenvolvido um sistema web, baseado no Padrão de Descrição da Informação, que viabiliza a representação integrada de informações de diferentes tipos de acervos. Este artigo apresenta a experiência no estabelecimento desse padrão e no desenvolvimento desse sistema. Sendo um software livre, espera-se que pesquisadores e a sociedade em geral se beneficiem desse sistema.The organization and dissemination of knowledge contained in historical collections have been a constant concern; however, there is a lack of software systems for this domain. In this context, a web system based on the standard description of information that allows for the integrated representation of information from different types of collections was developed. This article presents the experience in setting this standard and developing the system. Being open source, it is expected that researchers and society at large to benefit from this system.FAPESPCapesCNP

Integrating multidimensional projections into visual analysis of social networks

Há várias décadas, pesquisadores em ciências sociais buscam formas gráficas para expressar as relações humanas na sociedade. O advento do computador e, mais recentemente, da internet, possibilitou o surgimento de um campo que tem despertado a atenção de estudiosos das áreas de visualização de informação e de ciências sociais, o da visualização de redes sociais. Esse campo tem o potencial de revelar e explorar padrões que podem beneficiar um número muito grande de aplicações e indivíduos em áreas tais como comércio, segurança em geral, redes de conhecimento e pesquisa de mercado. Grande parte dos algoritmos de visualização de redes sociais são baseados em grafos, destacando relacionamentos entre indivíduos e grupos de indivíduos, mas dando pouca atenção aos seus demais atributos. Assim, este trabalho apresenta um conjunto de soluções para representar e explorar visualmente redes sociais levando em consideração tais atributos. A primeira solução faz uso de redes heterogêneas, onde tanto indivíduos quanto comunidades são representados no grafo; a segunda solução utiliza técnicas de visualização baseadas em projeção multidimensional, que promovem o posicionamento dos dados no plano de acordo com algum critério de similaridade baseado em atributo; e a última solução coordena múltiplas visões para focar rapidamente em regiões de interesse. Os resultados indicam que as soluções proveem um poder de representação e identificação de conceitos não facilmente detectados por formas convencionais de visualização e exploração de grafos, com indícios fornecidos através dos estudos de caso e da realização de avaliações com usuários. Este trabalho fornece um estudo das áreas de visualização em grafos para a análise de redes sociais bem como uma implementação das soluções de integração da visualização em redes com as projeções multidimensionaisFor decades, social sciences researchers have searched for graphical forms to express human social relationships. The development of computer science and more recently of the Internet has given rise to a new field of research for visualization and social sciences professionals, that of social network visualization. This field can potentially offer new opportunities in reveal new patterns that can benefit a large number of applications and individuals in fields such as commerce, security, knowledge networks and marketing. A large part of social network visualization algorithms and systems relies on graph representations, highlighting relationships amongst individuals and groups of individuals, but mostly neglecting the other available attributes of individuals. Thus, this work presents a set of tools to represent and explore social networks visually, taking into consideration the attributes of the nodes. The first technique employs heterogeneous networks, where both individuals and communities are represented in the graph; the second solution uses visualization techniques based on multidimensional projection, which promote the placement of data in the plane according to some similarity criterion based on attribute; still another proposed technique coordinates multiple views in order to speed up focus in regions of interest in the data sets. The results indicate that the solutions promote high degree of representation power and that concept identification not easily obtained via other methods is possible; the evidence comes from case studies as well as a user evaluation. This work includes a study in the area of graph visualization for social network analysis as well as a system implementing the proposed solutions, that integrate network visualization and multidimensional projections to extract patterns from social network

Multidimensional projections for visual analysis of social networks

Visual analysis of social networks is usually based on graph drawing algorithms and tools. However, social networks are a special kind of graph in the sense that interpretation of displayed relationships is heavily dependent on context. Context, in its turn, is given by attributes associated with graph elements, such as individual nodes, edges, and groups of edges, as well as by the nature of the connections between individuals. In most systems, attributes of individuals and communities are not taken into consideration during graph layout, except to derive weights for force-based placement strategies. This paper proposes a set of novel tools for displaying and exploring social networks based on attribute and connectivity mappings. These properties are employed to layout nodes on the plane via multidimensional projection techniques. For the attribute mapping, we show that node proximity in the layout corresponds to similarity in attribute, leading to easiness in locating similar groups of nodes. The projection based on connectivity yields an initial placement that forgoes force-based or graph analysis algorithm, reaching a meaningful layout in one pass. When a force algorithm is then applied to this initial mapping, the final layout presents better properties than conventional force-based approaches. Numerical evaluations show a number of advantages of pre-mapping points via projections. User evaluation demonstrates that these tools promote ease of manipulation as well as fast identification of concepts and associations which cannot be easily expressed by conventional graph visualization alone. In order to allow better space usage for complex networks, a graph mapping on the surface of a sphere is also implemented27791810CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO - CNPQCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NÍVEL SUPERIOR - CAPESFUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - FAPESPSem informaçãoSem informaçãoSem informaçã

Multidimensional Projections for Visual Analysis of Social Networks

Visual analysis of social networks is usually based on graph drawing algorithms and tools. However, social networks are a special kind of graph in the sense that interpretation of displayed relationships is heavily dependent on context. Context, in its turn, is given by attributes associated with graph elements, such as individual nodes, edges, and groups of edges, as well as by the nature of the connections between individuals. In most systems, attributes of individuals and communities are not taken into consideration during graph layout, except to derive weights for force-based placement strategies. This paper proposes a set of novel tools for displaying and exploring social networks based on attribute and connectivity mappings. These properties are employed to layout nodes on the plane via multidimensional projection techniques. For the attribute mapping, we show that node proximity in the layout corresponds to similarity in attribute, leading to easiness in locating similar groups of nodes. The projection based on connectivity yields an initial placement that forgoes force-based or graph analysis algorithm, reaching a meaningful layout in one pass. When a force algorithm is then applied to this initial mapping, the final layout presents better properties than conventional force-based approaches. Numerical evaluations show a number of advantages of pre-mapping points via projections. User evaluation demonstrates that these tools promote ease of manipulation as well as fast identification of concepts and associations which cannot be easily expressed by conventional graph visualization alone. In order to allow better space usage for complex networks, a graph mapping on the surface of a sphere is also implemented.FAPESPCNPqCAPE

Multidimensional Projections for Visual Analysis of Social Networks

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Visual analysis of social networks is usually based on graph drawing algorithms and tools. However, social networks are a special kind of graph in the sense that interpretation of displayed relationships is heavily dependent on context. Context, in its turn, is given by attributes associated with graph elements, such as individual nodes, edges, and groups of edges, as well as by the nature of the connections between individuals. In most systems, attributes of individuals and communities are not taken into consideration during graph layout, except to derive weights for force-based placement strategies. This paper proposes a set of novel tools for displaying and exploring social networks based on attribute and connectivity mappings. These properties are employed to layout nodes on the plane via multidimensional projection techniques. For the attribute mapping, we show that node proximity in the layout corresponds to similarity in attribute, leading to easiness in locating similar groups of nodes. The projection based on connectivity yields an initial placement that forgoes force-based or graph analysis algorithm, reaching a meaningful layout in one pass. When a force algorithm is then applied to this initial mapping, the final layout presents better properties than conventional force-based approaches. Numerical evaluations show a number of advantages of pre-mapping points via projections. User evaluation demonstrates that these tools promote ease of manipulation as well as fast identification of concepts and associations which cannot be easily expressed by conventional graph visualization alone. In order to allow better space usage for complex networks, a graph mapping on the surface of a sphere is also implemented.274791810Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq