Preparing infographics, its future and opportunities for libraries

Abstract

Infographics is a collective term for the complex representations of reality, primarily visual, now often audiovisual. It is very likely that there is no limit to the continuous development of its digital versions, as it is parallel to the development of information technology itself. This third study on infographics addresses three key questions in more detail: how and at what stages they are produced; what is the likely direction of this branch of visualisation; and how and in what areas libraries themselves can integrate infographics into their own lives and activities. We present some of the resources and tools that can be used to create sophisticated presentations, as well as topics that can be presented to the audience in the form of infographics. Finally, we also discuss potential problems that, beyond the scope of our topic, are global risk factors, but which literally take shape in data visualisation. In any case, infographics is one of the exciting new ways of mining, analysing and disseminating data, and one of the ways in which libraries can open up new windows on the world.