Fernanda B. Viégas. Netzspannung.org Knowledge Maps. During my time at the Fraunhof Gesellschaft - Institut für Medienkommunikation, I participated in the development of the netzspannung.org Knowledge Maps.
The basic idea behind these Maps is to graphically present and communicate the content of the netzspannung.org database as well as visualising metadata about the content. The graphical visualisation presents the data in a intuitive way, so the constellations of the data form a statement about their contextual sourroundings. They are part of the The Knowledge Maps are part of the project that is lead by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss at the Exploratory Media Lab, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft - Institute for Media Communication.
The netzspannung.org project is funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Information aesthetics - data visualization & visual design.