There is some debate about where to draw the line between scientific visualization and information visualization, and some of the founders of IV tend to have a very strong position, they tend to say "OK, if the data is abstract , then it is information visualization; if the data is physical, then it is scientific visualization", but I think we can adopt a more general point of view, where we do not have to take a stand and be on one side or on the other side, we can see this latest development as an extension of what has been done in visualization since twenty years ago because now we can both produce new applications that were not available, such as visual analysis of web-site access, or web-site traffic, which were not considered in scientific visualization, and we can also add new tools to traditional visual scientific visualization applications, for example, we can consider a CAT scan brain image, and we can add a number of tools to interactively explore this image, maybe fly through or easily manipulate, easily remove some parts or change the colour coding of the different parts, and then we can link this image to the medical record of the patient, so we can have a visualization of the abstract information in the medical record, maybe the temporal history of the patient and then this image is linked to, is a detail of this temporal personal history of the patient. Or we can also consider the database where this brain image and thousands of other brain images are stored and come out with some visual language to query that data-base without knowing SQL or some computer specific query language.