Position Paper by Author Info

For the Workshop on "Information Visualization Software Infrastructures" at IEEE 2004 Visualization,
Organized by Katy Börner, Indiana University, USA and Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France

Part I

I.1) What functionality should a general InfoVis infrastructure provide?

I.2) What do you see as the main technical challenges for creating a central but flexible and universally useful (information) visualization software infrastructure (as opposed to 100 different ones)?

Part II

Please describe the (information) visualization software infrastructure you are working on.

II.1) Project Name and Web Address

II.2) Core Team Members (Please list in order, Role of Project Member, Full Name, E-mail. eg: Developer, John Doe, jdoe@univ.edu)

II.3) Project Start Date

II.4) Targeted User Group

II.5) Supported User Tasks

II.6) Major Features of the System Architecture

II.7) Algorithms Provided

II.8) Snapshot of the Interface

II.9) Development Platform

II.10) Supported Operating Systems

II.5) Software Dependencies/Required Libraries

II.5) Current License

II.5) Number of Users/Downloads

II.5) Pros and Cons

II.5) Planned Work

Part III

Please describe your main interest in participating in the workshop

Determining the feasibility of combining efforts to create one common, shared IV infrastructure as opposed to 100s of underfunded or proprietary toolkits, platforms and frameworks. Scouring for ideas for a common data protocol for communication between plugins. Eliciting feedback about the IVC software architecture with regard to extensibility and ensuring that it is future-proof.

Please use no more than 4 pages, in this HTML format if possible.
Send the completed paper by Sept. 30, 2004 to katy@indiana.edu and Jean-Daniel.Fekete@inria.fr.