Join us on April 11 between 10:00 and 13:00 for a nodegoat workshop at the Centre for Digital Humanities of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF-DH) in Barcelona. The workshop is organised as part of the "Premodern Digital Textualities" series. This is an in-person event. You can find more about the workshop via this link and you can register here.

Thanks to Marija Blašković for organising this event......

[Squelette du Bouc d'Angora.] : [dessin] / [Buvée del.], Dessin pour Histoire naturelle générale et particulière, par M. de Buffon. 1755, BnF Gallica

Nous sommes ravis d'annoncer que la ressource en ligne "The Programming Historian en français" a publié une leçon sur la conceptualisation d'une base de données à l'aide de nodegoat : Des sources aux données, concevoir une base de données en sciences humaines et sociales avec nodegoat.

La leçon a été rédigée par Agustín Cosovschi, édité par Sofia Papastamkou et évalué par Octave Julien et Solenn Huitric......

The Dijital Beşeri Bilimler Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi of Marmara Üniversitesi organises a nodegoat demonstration on March 27 between 13:00 and 14:00 (GMT+3). You can read more about this here and register via this link.

Their platform 'Inside Digital Humanities' recently published an article on how to use nodegoat for your research project: Nodegoat.net Sosyal ve Beşeri Bilimler için. Web Tabanlı ve Veri Girişinden Sonuçların Görselleştirilmesine. Kapsamlı Dijital Araştırma Ortamı (in English)......

Poster by Zsofia Turoczy

Together with the department of Southeast European History and Anthropology at the University of Graz we will run a workshop with the title ‘Introduction to historical data analysis and visualisation’ on Friday 22 March 2024. The workshop takes place between 10:00 and 16:30. This is an in-person event and registration is required. Registration deadline is 18 March.

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Andrea Pérez González of Radboud University organises a workshop that addresses the issues surrounding the colonial archive from a critical and practical perspective. The workshop will include a demonstration of nodegoat as a tool to create and analyse modular archives. The workshop is hosted by the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures (LAILAC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The workshop takes place at the Graduate Center on Monday, March 11 between 4:30 pm and 6:30 pm.

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Elif Derin-Can of the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf Üniversitesi organises a nodegoat workshop on March 2 within the framework of the Digital Ottoman Studies initiative. You can read more about this here and register via this link......

Together with the Research School Political History we will run a workshop with the title ‘Data management and analysis for historical research in nodegoat’ on 23 October 2023. The workshop takes place between 10:00 and 17:00 at the Oost-Indisch Huis in Amsterdam. This is an in-person event and registration is required. Registration deadline is 9 October.

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Map from the David Rumsey Map Collection, published as a IIIF image. The image has been georeferenced with the Allmaps editor, and the map tiles are generated by the Allmaps Tile Server. Click here to explore this interactive visualisation.

Thanks to the Allmaps project, it is now possible to use any map that has been published as a IIIF image as a background map in your geographic visualisations in nodegoat.

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a set of open standards for publishing digital objects, maintained by a consortium of cultural institutions. The list of institutions that publish their digitised maps as IIIF images is constantly growing. This overview provides a number of examples of available resources. The David Rumsey Map Collection also contains a large number of maps that have been published as IIIF images.

nodegoat Users have been able to use (historical) maps that are published as XYZ-tiles. We have now updated our Guide 'Use a Historical Map' to describe the steps you need to take to use IIIF images as a background map for your geographic visualisations in nodegoat. The Guide uses an example of a historical map published in the Digital Collections of Leiden University Libraries.

On Wednesday 11 October 2023 we will run a nodegoat Workshop at Stockholm University. The workshop will take place between 10.00 and 16.30 at Bergsmannen, Stockholm University. This is an in-person event and registration is required. Registration deadline is 27 September.

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During the conference 'Graphs and Networks in the fourth dimension – time and temporality as categories of connectedness', jointly organised by the Historical Network Research community and Graphs & Networks in the Humanities, we presented a new nodegoat feature: 'temporally-aware dynamic network analysis'. This new functionality extends the Scope and Chronology Statements.

The Scope functionality is used throughout nodegoat to traverse your data model and select elements to be included in a visualisation, analysis, or export. With the Scope, you can limit or expand your data selection. In a prosopographical analyses you might want to include all educational institutes related to one person, plus all the relations of these institutes, while omitting all other personal relations of a person. Follow this Guide to learn how to configure a Scope.

Chronology Statements that you make in nodegoat allow you to specify what you mean by a statement like 'circa'. Instead of using qualitative statements about vagueness, Chronology Statements provide you with a way of making quantitative statements about vagueness. Chronology Statements also allow you to make relational date statements: 'the date point is between the sending of letter X and the sending of letter Y'. Follow this Guide to learn how to store uncertain dates by using Chronology Statements and follow this Guide to learn how to store relational dates by using Chronology Statements.

The temporally-aware dynamic network analysis functionality makes the temporal options offered by the Chronology Statements available on any level of a Scope. This allows you to apply and pass temporality to time-bound connections in any of a Scope's paths. The dates from Chronology Statements can be sourced from every step in the traversal: ascendant or descendant nodes, and combinations. Selected configurations can be applied on any/all of the connections/edges: outbound or inbound directionality, and combinations.

Example: Academic Connections

With this functionality it is now possible to dynamically generate networks of people who attended the same educational institute at the same time, without specifying any dates in a filter. The temporally-aware dynamic network analysis functionality applies the initial date on every other relationship that appears on a specified path:

Two persons shown having an overlapping academic connection out of four persons.

The obvious benefit of this approach is the scalability of this functionality, as it allows you to quickly scrutinise complex networks based on time-bound connections:.....