Category: Network Analysis

Categories
Network Analysis Textual analysis Visualization

Mapping Metaphor from the University of Glasgow

‘Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus‘ is a project researching changes in metaphorical thought and expression in the history of English. It was funded by the AHRC (grant reference AH/I02266X/1), was based in English Language, and ran from January 2012 to March 2015. From April 2015 to March 2016, we are continuing this work with the AHRC-funded project ‘Metaphor in the Curriculum’. Working with partners in education, this project uses the Mapping Metaphor research to create materials for schools based around metaphor.

Screenshot 2015-08-17 19.24.13

*Our online, freely-available Metaphor Map of the English language is now available at this address*: http://mappingmetaphor.arts.gla.ac.uk.  See our blog and Twitter feed for news, events and information.

Categories
Network Analysis

Electronic Enlightenment

Electronic Enlightenment (database available through Bertrand Library)Screenshot 2014-08-24 14.39.47

Electronic Enlightenment — letters & lives online

. . . reconnecting the first global social network!

Electronic Enlightenment is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century — reconstructing one of the world’s great historical “conversations”.

Categories
Network Analysis Visualization

Mapping the Republic of Letters

Link to Project Home Page

About the Project
(excerpted from the project website)

Voltaire's Publications
Voltaire’s Publications

Before email, faculty meetings, international colloquia, and professional associations, the world of scholarship relied on its own networks: networks of correspondence that stretched across countries and continents; the social networks created by scientific academies; and the physical networks brought about by travel. These networks were the lifelines of learning, from the age of Erasmus to the age of Franklin. They facilitated the dissemination and the criticism,of ideas, the spread of political news, as well as the circulation of people and objects.

Continue reading “Mapping the Republic of Letters”
Categories
Network Analysis Visualization

Kindred Britain

Kindred Britain

Screenshot 2014-08-24 08.49.52
Network visualization of Britain’s leading families–Stanford University Library

Kindred Britain is a network of nearly 30,000 individuals — many of them iconic figures in British culture — connected through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation. It is a vision of the nation’s history as a giant family affair.

Stanford University

Kindred Britain YouTube Channel

Elijah Meeks on Kindred Britain as a Sign of the Times