some technical progress...

(Disclaimer: This probably will only be interesting for anyone looking into the Processing environment, specifically if anyone wants to do any integration with the web for a project...)
Since this is largely a project which integrates with other multimedia environments, I have been doing most of the work within the Processing environment ( www.processing.org ) and it has been working nicely so far. I currently am able to take textual input from a user and use that to gather and display images and other keywords that pertain to that text. For this I used Switchboard, a library created by Jeffery Crouse (check out all the specs at: http://www.realtimeart.com/thesis/jcrouse_thesis041606.pdf ). Mr. Course was generous enough to send me a slightly altered version of his library, because I was having problems displaying multiple images from the web.
What's next on the list is to make the interface look more visually pleasing and to populate a list of terms relating to the holocaust and display the list so that the participant can begin navigating it.