One of my main objectives in Research for MetaMagazine is to about exploration of information and visualizing information to enhance context and meaning and accessibility.

Information is a container word with several meanings; Information can refer to:

• raw data in a document or database
• tagged or classified information in a document or database
• specified, classified content without reference to a document or medium
• an answer to a specific question
• an automated system giving a programmed response to a specific question

Visualizing tools for Information are needed in our ongoing quest for information: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has published a lot of research papers over the years and developed several visualization tools.

Looking for ways to visualize information and meta-levels I found the following websites:

• A visual exploration on mapping complex networks:
  http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
• Interactive Knowledge Maps of Tools, Books, Researchers, Success Factors, and Methods in the Visualization Field
  http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/documents.htm
• Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
  http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
• Visualization Methods from the Periodic Table:
  http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/showAll.xql
• Information Visualization (methods and software)
  http://infoviz.pnl.gov/technologies.html
• Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
  http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/