Storyteller: Visualizing Perspectives in Digital Humanities Projects

Authors
  • I. Leemans
  • E. Kuijpers
  • P. Vossen
  • I. Maks
Publication date 2016
Host editors
  • B. Bozic
  • G. Mendel-Gleason
  • C. Debruyne
  • D. O'Sullivan
Book title Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities
Book subtitle Second IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop, CHDDH 2016, Dublin, Ireland, May 25, 2016 : revised selected papers
ISBN
  • 9783319462233
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319462240
Series IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Event 2​ nd IFIP Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities (2016)
Pages (from-to) 78-90
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
Humanities scholars agree that the visualization of their data should bring order and insight, reveal patterns and provide leads for new research questions. However, simple two-dimensional visualizations are often too static and too generic to meet these needs. Visualization tools for the humanities should be able to deal with the observer dependency, heterogeneity, uncertainty and provenance of data and the complexity of humanities research questions. They should furthermore offer scholars the opportunity to interactively manipulate their data sets and queries. In this paper, we introduce Storyteller, an open source visualization tool designed to interactively explore complex data sets for the humanities. We present the tool, and demonstrate its applicability in three very different humanities projects.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0_8
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