Wikigrid – a platform for research in the Digital Humanites
Olaf Simons - June 27, 2012 in Bibliographic, data-driven, multinational, research, visualisation
A Semantic Media Wiki serving the digital humanities (and everyone interested) as a collective repository of primary information
- designed to collect metadata from research institutions, archives, libraries
- inviting researchers to modify, augment and create information and to use the grid as a collective card box for preliminary and sketchy information (as long as items can be linked to primary sources)
- inviting users to set links between items and to analyze the connections
- offering visualizations such as
- the distribution of search results on maps
- the configuration of networks
- timeline statistics
- quantifying diagrams
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