Part of:

• Fonds: Asymptote Architecture New York Stock Exchange project records, 1991-2009
•    Series: MarkeTrac and OrderTrac, 1991 - 2007

People:

• Asymptote (Firm) (archive creator)

Title:

MarkeTrac and OrderTrac

Date:

1991 - 2007

Level of archival description:
Series

Extent and medium:

• approximately 6,500 digital files (7.6 GB)
  8 folders of textual materials

Scope and content:
Series 2, MarkeTrac and OrderTrac, 1998-2007, chiefly documents Asymptote’s work bringing 3DTF online through the development and implementation of two web applications. This series includes textual and born-digital components, and chiefly dates from 2000 to 2001.

MarkeTrac represents the most significant expansion on 3DTF. Running as a subdomain of the NYSE website for much of the early 2000s, it allowed users to monitor data from a personal computer using the 3DTF interface. Though there were other efforts bringing real-time stock data online at this time, MarkeTrac is significant in that it was the first to include a major data visualization component. Later additions to this project include OrderTrac, a component of MarkeTrac allowing users to buy and sell stocks online. Other unrealized projects related to 3DTF and data visualization were conceptualized during this time.

The digital files in this series are chiefly raster images and video of renderings, in addition to a body of handout materials for project presentations. There is also a small body of CAD material in Maya. The textual records are largely handouts for presentation meetings, overlapping significantly with the digital files. There is also a small body of chiefly textual material documenting the conceptualization of other data visualization products.

Reference number:

AP184.S2

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

A number of video files were identified as Apple Quicktime files by MediaInfo, and do not appear to have any playable streams. It is unclear how the content of these files can be accessed. See file-level description for more information.

Arrangement:
This series was processed to a file-level. Files are grouped by format (i.e. textual, digital), and then roughly arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

• Digital material can only be accessed on-site. Please contact Reference at ref@cca.qc.ca for more information. Access by appointment only.

Related units of description:

• MarkeTrac. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Accessed 13 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/*/marketrac.nyse.com.

General note:

• Timestamps were corrupted on a number of files in this series. They were returned to an estimated correct date at the time of processing. See file-level description for more information.

Contains:

• AP184.S2.001, High resolution renderings and other images for MarkeTrac, 14 June 1998 - 23 May 2007
• AP184.S2.002, Digital presentation handout files of MarkeTrac and OrderTrac, 8 December 1995 - 17 October 2005
• AP184.S2.003, Digital presentation handout files of MarkeTrac, Phase 3.1 and 3.2, and related images, 27 June 1998 - 8 May 2002
• AP184.S2.004, After Effects project files and related video files of MarkeTrac, 27 March 1997 - 2 October 2000
• AP184.S2.005, Clips from TV financial news for Three Dimensional Trading Floor, 10 November 2000
• AP184.S2.006, Maya 3D models and VRML for MarkeTrac, 30 August 2000 - 17 April 2001
• AP184.S2.007, Maya models, related renderings, and presentation handout files for MarkeTrac, 12 January 2001 - 19 February 2001
• AP184.S2.008, Presentation files for MarkeTrac website mock-up, 13 June 2001 - 18 June 2001
• AP184.S2.009, High resolution video files of MarkeTrac components, 30 April 2001 - 17 October 2004
• AP184.S2.010, Presentation handout of NYSE Experience 2000: Implementation of New Visual Technologies, February 2000, February 2000
• AP184.S2.011, Presentation handout of NYSE 3D Web, Phase 1.0, draft, June 2000, June 2000
• AP184.S2.012, Presentation handout of NYSE 3D Web, Phase 1.1, October 2000, October 2000
• AP184.S2.013, Presentation booklet of model layouts for the New York Stock Exchange 3D Web, 1 March 2000
• AP184.S2.014, Printouts and notes for OrderTrac, circa 2001
• AP184.S2.015, Meeting notes, correspondence, and usability study for MarkeTrac, 2001