Visualisation of streets named after the city of Prague. OpenStreetMap data obtained via the Overpass API service. Background map from the David Rumsey Map collection.

The Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences organises a nodegoat Day on Wednesday 12 November 2025 in Prague. The event will include a talk by Kaspar Gubler, presentations of nodegoat projects, as well as a demonstration of new nodegoat features.

You can learn more about the event and Call for Participation here. [....]

Scene from an illuminated manuscript of the romance of Ponthus et Sidoine: a combat between Ponthus and an opponent (London, British Library, Royal 15 E VI, fols 213r, 213v, 215r. Photos: BL).

The project 'The Joust as Performance: Pas d’armes and Late Medieval Chivalry' has released a data publication that contains details of all pas d’armes held between c.1420 and c.1520. The dataset includes the following information: exact dates and locations, names of entrepreneurs and challengers, composition of teams, type of combat, theatrical scenario, ephemeral architecture, guests and spectators. The data can be downloaded via this link and had been published in both JSON and CSV formats. The database was created by Mario Damen, Jacob Deacon, and other team members in nodegoat. The publication was generated by means of the nodegoat Data Publication Module.

Scholars who want to explore this data by means of an interface may consult the database that has been published on the project website. These results have also been published in an open-access book.

Click here to explore the database.

The project also created a virtual exhibition in order to share the results of the project with a wider audience.[....]

Join us next week in the Aula Magna of the Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna for a public lecture on nodegoat "Working with nodegoat: an Introduction to Historical Data Analysis and Visualisation". The public lecture takes place on Thursday March 6 between 10:00 and 12:00.

More info can be found here.[....]

The Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften organises a nodegoat workshop on Thursday 20 March between 09.30 and 17.00 in Vienna. You can learn more about the event and registration process here.

Thanks to Nirvana Silnovic for organising this event.

Two opportunities to learn more about using nodegoat for your research projects!

On January 22 we will organise a nodegoat workshop together with the GRACPE project (Grup de Recerca sobre l'Arqueologia de la Complexitat i els Processos d'Evolució social) at the Faculty of Geography and History, University of Barcelona. The venue will be Sala Jane Adams (Carrer de Montalegre, 6) and the workshop will take place on January 22 between 9AM and noon. The entry is free and no registration is needed. For further information please contact: sd.prehistoria.arqueologia@ub.edu

Thanks to Maria Del Rocio Da Riva Muñoz for organising this event.

On January 23 we will organise a nodegoat workshop together with the project 'Narremas y Mitemas: Unidades de Elaboración Épica e Historiográfica' at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Zaragoza. The venue will be Sala de Grados (Pedro Cerbuna, 12) and the workshop will take place on January 23 between 4PM and 7PM. More info and registration: https://eventos.unizar.es/127926/detail/nodegoat-workshop-an-introduction-to-a-web-based-research-environment-for-the-humanities.html

Thanks to Celia Delgado Mastral and Marta Añorbe Mateos for organising this event.

Publish your project with the new data publication module. nodegoat users can now select any project to generate a data publication that is web-accessible and downloadable as a ZIP-file. By generating a new publication a Project's data model and all of its data are published and archived. The publication remains accessible also when new publications are generated at a later stage.

Publications are stand-alone self-containing archives which include both the HTML-interface to the data model as well as all of its data in both JSON and CSV.

Publication of the 'Imagology' project of Joep Leerssen, see this page for more info and a public user interface

This new publish feature extends the existing data extraction and data publication options, i.e.: the export functionality, the API, and the public user interface.[....]

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.

Click here for more information and registration.

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.

Click here for more information and for registering.

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.

Click here for more information and registration.

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.