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posted by Editor on Friday June 13, @03:27PM
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This article by the USC Information Sciences Institute describes eArchivarius, a tool for organizing and visualizing collections of email. The tool detects relationships between messages and people by analyzing clues from the message texts, and visualizes the relationships with a 3D interface that uses spheres to represent email authors. The distance between the spheres indicates the number of messages exchanged over a given period (see screenshot). Possible applications include helping large corporations respond to subpoenas for all email messages on a specific question, allowing historians to analyze the background of a government decision using an email archive (the prototype is running on a collection of emails from the National Security Council during the Iran-Contra period, i.e. 1985-87), and providing better ways to browse email archives that have been donated to libraries. Here is a walk-through of the tool.
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