VIVA

Fugro EarthData worked with a team at Manhattan's Skyscraper Museum to create VIVA, The Visual Index to the Virtual Archive. VIVA is an innovative visually-based interface that uses Fugro EarthData's 3D computer model of Manhattan as a click-on map, allowing website visitors to view the city, present and past, and to access the Museum's collections through an on-line, searchable database. The idea of a visual index to the collection recognizes the importance of graphic representation in both the medium of the website and in the way that visitors, virtual or actual, come to understand and comprehend a city through its geography and landmarks. Visit the Skyscraper Museum website to see the VIVA interface online at http://www.skyscraper.org/viva/viva.html.