Method And System For Managing Visually Related Multimedia Information By Means Of Dimensional Classification

摘要

Disclosed are a method and a system for managing visually related multimedia information. The visually related multimedia information comprises a plurality of information elements; each information element of the plurality of visually related multimedia information elements is associated with one or more characteristics. Each characteristic of the visually related multimedia information is associated with a dimension of an information volume. A user input is received for positioning the one or more information elements along at least one dimension of the one or more dimensions of the information volume. Each information element of the plurality of visually related multimedia information elements is positioned along the one or more dimensions of the information volume. Positioning a visually related multimedia information element classifies the information element. One or more information elements of the plurality of dimensionally positioned visually related multimedia information elements is retained as an information volume of at least one dimension. One or more information elements of the plurality of dimensionally positioned visually related multimedia information elements is displayed to the user distributed over a spatial region according to a dimensional display representation in which spatial proximity among the one or more visually related multimedia information elements along each of the at least one dimensions of the dimensional display representation represents the aspects of similarity and dissimilarity in the characteristic identified with each said dimension. A user input is received to determine the dimensional display representation from the dimensions of the information volume and to determine the orientation and viewpoint of the dimensional display representation.