TheWhaleHunt.org ist ein Projekt von Jonathan Harris. Es geht dabei nicht um Kritik am modernen Walfang sondern um die Dokumentation eines traditionellen Walfangs der Inuit in Alaska.
“The Whale Hunt website was developed as an experimental interface for storytelling. Given an epic real world story, with lots of content and lots of metadata, how can the narrative be faithfully retold? The project presented a number of interesting design problems, including: how to present a large set of photographs (3,214) online while keeping download times relatively brief; how to express both the topography of the entire narrative and the ways in which any single moment fits into that narrative; how to extract and reveal the many substories occuring within the context of the larger story; how to convey the many feelings experienced on the hunt (boredom, fatigue, curiosity, excitement, exhaustion, sublime beauty); and more generally how to restage an epic real world experience on the Internet. The resulting Whale Hunt interface is described in more detail below.”
Dabei ist vor allem die Contentfilterung über sog. Constraints interessant. Eine kleine Dokumentation über das Interface steht ebenfalls bereit.
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