Atlas Of The European Novel 1800 1900

Techniques are provided for designing a mashup. In an example embodiment, a user input is detected. The user input relates a first GUI object, which represents a first widget, to a second GUI object that represents a second widget. The first widget conforms to a first widget specification and the second widget conforms to a second widget specification that is different than the first widget specification. In response to the user input, a variable is defined, where, at run-time, a value of an output parameter of the first widget is assigned to the variable and the variable is used as an input parameter of the second widget. An event definition that defines an event is generated based on the user input, where the event, when detected at run-time, causes contents of at least one of the first widget and the second widget to be refreshed. A binding definition is stored, where the binding definition associates with each other the event definition, the variable, the output parameter of the first widget, and the input parameter of the second widget. A definition of the mashup, which includes the binding definition, is then generated.

System for dynamic discovery, configuration, and development of process-bound widgets

The current pace of technological innovation in web mapping offers new opportunities and creates new challenges for web cartographers. The continual development of new technological solutions produces a fundamental tension: the more flexible and expansive web mapping options become, the more difficult it is to maintain fluency in the teaching and application of these technologies. We addressed this tension by completing a three-stage, empirical process for understanding how best to learn and implement contemporary web mapping technologies. To narrow our investigation, we focused upon education at the university level, rather than a professional production environment, and upon open-source client-side web mapping technologies, rather than complementary server-side or cloud-based technologies. The process comprised three studies: (1) a competitive analysis study of contemporary web mapping technologies, (2) a needs-assessment survey of web map designers/developers regarding past experiences with these technologies, and (3) a diary study charting the implementation of a subset of potentially viable technologies, as identified through the first two studies. The process successfully achieved the practical goal of identifying a candidate set of web mapping technologies for teaching web mapping, and also revealed broader insights into web map design and education generally as well as ways to cope with evolving web mapping technologies.

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A Process for Keeping Pace with Evolving Web Mapping Technologies

Audial engagement

Depuis les romans oulipiens d’Italo Calvino – Si par une nuit d’hiver un voyageur et Le Château des destins croises – jusqu’aux hypertextes de fiction se joue une redefinition de la forme et des enjeux de l’enchâssement narratif. Ce travail vise, a partir d’un corpus contemporain, a explorer les mutations que connait cet agencement de recits percu comme traditionnel et theorise en France dans les annees 1960 par Gerard Genette et Tzvetan Todorov. Nous proposons, avec la notion de multiplication des recits, un assouplissement de ses contours afin d’aborder un corpus d’oeuvres romanesques cherchant a tisser ensemble plusieurs recits tout en brouillant les reperes hierarchiques impliques par les notions d’enchâssement ou d’insertion. Croisant approche narratologique et prise en compte de la reception, ce travail se donne pour objectif d’interroger ce qu’est la multiplication des recits en ne perdant jamais de vue ses effets, en particulier sur la mise en intrigue (P. Ricoeur) : comment comprendre et analyser la reception passionnee (R. Baroni) du lecteur face a des oeuvres parfois monstrueuses, entremelant les strates narratives et courant le risque du desordre, de la perte et de l’illisible ? Nous proposons de suivre a la trace le lecteur intrigue, protagoniste de cette etude et arpenteur ou geometre des espaces fictionnels et textuels ouverts par la multiplication des recits, a travers sa progression dans des romans – imprimes ou numeriques – qui placent au coeur de leurs enjeux la question du dispositif narratif

Multiplication des récits et stéréométrie littéraire : d’Italo Calvino aux épifictions contemporaines

Narratives and places are deeply connected. Places often contribute to the shaping of a story, just as stories contribute to the production of spatial identities. Mapping narratives can thus have a double goal: to explore the geographic structure of a story, and to better understand the impact of stories on the production of places. While it may be easy to locate narratives as points on a map, this type of representation is rarely relevant in capturing and characterising the complex spatio-temporal dimensions of the narratives. In this paper, we present a cyber-cartographic application designed to address this issue and provide solutions to help properly map some of the many dimensions of narratives, including the places of the narration (geography), the connection between these places (geometry), as well as the temporal dimension inherent to storytelling. This application, originally developed to map contemporary Canadian cinematographic narratives (see examples here: http://scaquard.classone-tech.com/),...

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How can we map stories? A cybercartographic application for narrative cartography

This chapter describes the development of the Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework and the significant changes that have taken place over the 10 years it has been under development. Three major challenges for the Framework are identified and some recent developments to respond to these are described. The chapter concludes by considering the future development of Nunaliit.

The Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework

Developments in Internet mapping have been dynamic in terms of emerging tools, services, databases and participants. New products developed by the private sector and open source projects are providing new means for constructing and disseminating maps. However, there is a need for research and development to support the creation of cohesive information products that synthesize information, such as Web-based atlases. Existing products tend to focus on processing and representation of primary information resources which are not highly integrated or ‘mediated’.

An Open Source Development Framework in Support of Cartographic Integration

Repurposing a Computer Role Playing Game for Engaging Learning

We are interested in exploring how entertainment in games can be combined with educational goals to make a compelling experience. In this paper we present our design study for the development of a mod game, Antarctic NWN. We first present the background for the game, objectives, and then discuss the gameplay of Antarctic NWN. We then explore issues that influence the design of a gripping game. One important issue is the relation between reality, simulation and game word. Then we focus on enhancing emotional involvement. Emotion is especially relevant to role-play game as it draws players into the story, and supports aesthetic understanding. We also look more specifically at the role of humour in this context. Humour enhances learning as well as providing a more pleasurable experience. In our quest to understand how games can both delight and instruct, we review the environment in which our game might be played, within the classroom or as family entertainment and describe different scenarios of use.

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Jean-Pierre Fiset

Papers

How can we map stories? A cybercartographic application for narrative cartography

The Nunaliit Cybercartographic Atlas Framework

An Open Source Development Framework in Support of Cartographic Integration

Repurposing a Computer Role Playing Game for Engaging Learning

COMPUTER GAMES AS HOMEWORK How to delight and instruct