Hypercities 2.0

I have working as an information and data architecture consultant to the UCLA Hypercities project, a map-based information publishing framework. My interest in the project lies in its approach to the spatial organization of digital media and in particular how a single system might be designed to offer a broad range of approaches to documenting the history of specific built environments, from synchronic comparison to diachronic narrative.

The current version of Hypercities that predates my involvement is here. The new version will be launched later in 2009.

Digital Karnak

Digital library of reconstruction models and teaching resources about the temple complex at Karnak. Launched September 2008. Primarily aimed at college instructors and students, it documents in detail the ancient temple complex of Karnak in Egypt. The project makes use of various recent technologies such as Ajax and Google Maps programming to organize the database in spatial terms.