[Infovis] Data files available (InfoVis, VAST, CHI papers)

[John Stasko]

If you would like some simple data files that describe every InfoVis and 
VAST Conference paper in the history of those conferences, we have 
created such files and have made them now available for download.  The 
files contain a simple xml-ish format describing each paper, its title 
and abstract, authors, conference, year, keywords, etc.  We believe that 
the format will be easy to read and understand.  Also available on the 
same site is a file containing information about CHI conference papers 
since 1999.

You can download the files from the webpage 
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/jigsaw/datafiles.html.  We hope that 
these files will be useful to researchers in the community exploring new 
methods of visualizing and understanding collections of documents.

Unfortunately, the data files do not include citation information.  We 
would be happy to have someone add that information to the files, 
however.  :^)

--John