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Abstract

last proposal - 01.12.10: 15h30 following skype rdv

Buzzaar: An Environment and Tool to Map Your Web

Keywords web, collaboration, data visualization, map, user, knowledge, sharing

The Web is getting more and more important for a growing fraction of the people it is accessible for.

As Web users, we visit numerous pages and our navigation history is often locally stored in our browser logs thus creating a data set that contains a lot of valuable information, not only for ourselves but also for other users we might be willing to share this information with.

How can we best exploit this information? How can we give it a meaning and transform it into a knowledge that we could share with others?

Buzzaar is a tool and a web site that provide answers to such questions. It is free and available for all. Buzzaar users can interact with their browsing history, and transform it into meaningful, dynamic webmaps that intuitively and dynamically represent their interests and habits.

A webmap is an efficient representation of the web pages visited by a user. It can be easily modified and tailored to specific user needs. In particular, users can tag, filter, and sort the visualized data, and customise its appearance.

Webmaps can be easily shared with friends and colleagues. They can be merged or projected into eachother to identify their commonalities or differences, thus allowing their owners to better understand and benefit from the knowledge they contain.

The Buzzaar website also allows anyone to register to the Buzzaar network, within which users can share their webmaps and collaboratively build a common webmap representative of the user community as a whole. This common webmap provides a usefull context to better interprete each user's individual webmap.

The team who created the Buzzar tool and website is composed of researchers from the EPFL Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and netartists from the meetopia community.

More information is available on www.buzzaar.net.

Archive proposale 01.12.10: 11h00

We live in a world of data and most of these data and good part of our life is now online.

As Web users, we surf on Web and send requests to search engines and we leave traces (create data) that are partially enclosed in private databases and hardly accessible or locally stored in our browser history logs.

Relations between these data make information. How could we best use it? How could we give a meaning to it and transform it into a shared knowledge, accessible for all?

Buzzaar is a tool and a place for doing it.It is free and available for all web users, who can see and transform their data into their own dynamic maps. Users are User is in the center of her/his their data map, and s/he they can tag, sort data and customise its appearance. S/he They can share these private maps with friends. S/he They can also import friend's buzzaar file and compare it or merge with its their own. Those actions could improve the results of their web research and provide them with a network of related data.

Visualizing data relations enable her/him to let them understand better these relations but also his/her their own research, classification and web habits. Contextualizing and sharing these data relations can potentially enrich their knowledge and as such be an empowerment tool for empowerment.

Buzzaar is also a public network, which could be used by and useful for everyone. It provides us with a common map >made of data of all its users. Everyone, member or not, can play with and learn from it.

Team who has created it is made of scientists and developers of the EPFL A.I lab and netartists from the meetopia community.

More on www.buzzaar.net

Buzzaar: Tool and Place to Map Your Web Keywords : web, collaboration, data visualization, map, user, knowledge, sharing

We live in a world of data and most of these data and good part of our life is now online and on the World Wide Web.

As Web users, we surf on the web, we query search engines; Doing so, we create data, and these are information,brute data  managed sorted, filtered by algorithms,  most of the time partially enclosed in private databases  of the web search engines or stored in and hardly accessible the long text files or or locally stored in our browser history logs

Neithertheless this information is a common good. These data are information. How could we use it at best ? how could we give sense to these data it and transform it into a long lived and a shared knowledge, accessible all ?

buzzaar is designed for all web users. It is meant to be a community. It allows me, as a member, to see and transform my data from my web activity into a dynamic, user centered map. It is also meant to be a public network, usefull for everyone, members and visitors.

[déplacé ici] user centered: as a member of the buzzaar community i can visualize my map. I am at the center of my data. i can tag them, sort them by filter and customize my map. I can share this file and send the result to my friends

[déplacé ici] dynamic: i can import my friend's buzzaar file and compare it to mine, or merge it with mine. These two actions improve the results, and provide me with a new network of linked data

when i am able to visualize my data, i can see more about me: and about where i stand, what are my interests and how i link them;  see and understand the relations between my links it validate my knowledge. I can situate myself into this network of information.

When i manipulate my data (play and transform) share it (copy, export send to friends). and primarely contextualise it (see, understand the links in my history of web activity: i.e the relation of my links within the Web, i improve my knowledge and i change my relation to my known environment. This is an empowerment.

[déplacé ici] Buzzaar is also meant to be a public network, usefull for everyone. members and visitors.

a public networkAs a member of the buzzaar communityi have my own private space, with my stored data. But buzzaaris alsa a public network, and web users can play with It provides us with a common map from all its users,and everyone, users or not, can play with it, filter, tag it. Finally, and store the result into a file on their local machine.

buzzaar is also a trans disciplinary our team is made of scientists and developers of the A.I lab at EPFL and netartists from the meetopia community.

L'application est un logiciel libre sous licence GNU/GPL, développé en Java. (Comment: I think we could remove these information about the licence and donors from this short abstract)

Letter of Intent
last proposal - skype meeting - 01.12.10:15h30 One of our main interest in participating to the «Making visible the invisible: Data Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations » conference is to share the results obtained so far in our Buzzaar project within a larger panel of collaborative and transdiciplinary projects dealing with new network interfaces and data visualization techniques.

We intend to contribute to the discussions by providing our findings with respect to questions such as: how to efficiently visualize digital data, what audience should such visualisation be addressed to, and how can visualization of information improve people's knowledge and lead to their digital empowerment?

We propose a less conventional and more conversational format for our participation to the conference.

First, we would like to show how a project like Buzzaar could grow up and develop, although it involves very different partners, both from the academia and from net art field.

Then, we intend to illustrate what such a project can bring to the net culture through data visualization seen as new mediated interfaces for the development and sharing of «the commons».

In particular, we would like to discuss the role of

(1) free open source tools for visualization of and navigation in complex data sets; and

(2) the usefulness of open online spaces for knowledge creation and sharing.

Finally, we would like to discuss the importance / necessity / opportunity of interdisciplinary collaboration and heterogeneous approaches on the creation of such tools.

archives draft proposal: 28.11.10 One of our main interest in participating to this conference is to share our project within a larger panel of collaborative and transdiciplinary projects dealing with new network interfaces and in a data visualization perspective..

We intend to contribute to the discussions dealing with the questions of visualizing digital data, audience it is addressed to, and how visualization of information can improve people's knowledge and lead to empowerment.

We propose a less conventional and more conversational format of our participation within the conference. Primarily, we would like to present Buzzaar, how it started, and what kind of collaboration have been initiated through the project. Mainly : How can a project like this grow up and develop through different approaches from the technical and academic field of Artificial Intelligence laboratory to the field of net art and interest for network culture and visualization of data as  new mediated  interfaces for the development and sharing of «the commons.» We would like to present the project, what it does and how it is set and open up the floor for reflections and questions on the issues we met during its development.

Mainly we would like to discuss during our presentation the role of: free tools for visualization and navigation of complex data sets and processes that are related to our online behaviour, open online spaces for knowledge creation and sharing.  Additionally, we would like to discuss the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration on the creation of such tools.

How can we participate to the conversationnal conference ?

in what form ?

if we present the project -- which is a good idea in MPW but, it must be in the given conversational format

shall we add some question we would like to ADDRESS to the public by presenting our project ?

points of discussion I suggest that we present the project and let emerge questions that we would like to discuss inside the presentation  questions linked to transdisciplinarity: what does it mean to share collaboration within different fields, what kind of issues, what opportunities does it create ? 231110  data visualisation, interface and users habits and behaviour, how to face and maybe confront users with their habits changing their behaviour and their global approach of Internet navigation 23.11.10  offering tools means offering spaces, for creation, reflexion, mobilization. creating mouvement, openess, and allowing displacements as deleuzian "deteritorialization", as map displacement: i.e modifiyng one's perceptions and understanding,empowerment, access to knowledge is one tool for people's embodiement and democratization. 23.11.10  others ???? 