InfoVis.net is a project devoted to Information Visualisation, seen as the process of incorporation of knowledge through the perception of information, mainly (but not only) in visual form.
Sometimes it is confused with Information Design. Info Design is part of InfoVis.
In order to contribute to the definition of this emerging specialty.
To build a technical and social reference of the same.
To build, in a collaborative way, a “State of the Art” around InfoVis .