FactGrid:SPARQL Lab

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The following SPARQL-applications would be extremely cool to have (and might deserve web interfaces to address regular historians and normal people).

Visualise corresondences on maps

The input is either a selection of names to explore, a time segment or a specified research interest (Property:P97 is designed for such searches).

One would like to have a software that visualises correspondences on maps and over time. Nodegoat does this and is booming among historians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLDRNiJrRUc

You can set a time window (like 10 years) and shift that window through time (like from 1500 to 1900) and see how certain correspondences changed their geographical centres through the centuries. We can not found out how to draw lines between correspondents (let alone how to visualise developments).

Create Stemmata

Ernst Howald and Henry E. Sigerist. Antonii Musa De herba vettonica ... Leipzig 1927

We created to properties for this: Property:P233 names the object - a book edition, a manuscript or any other thing that is genetically earlier. Property:P234 comes as the qualifier and offers a statement on what basis the object can be seen as a precedent. You might for instance link a translation to the edition that gave the original text.

The organisation is top down chronological (the guide lines in the picture above are not that beautiful, but dates on y-axis would be cool).

Objects can have multiple connections to earlier Items (a medieval scribe could use two books to create a new version of the text).

It would be cool if the P234 information became available - maybe on mouseover or through different colours to state how things are connected (like just a copy, a translation, an abridgment).

A visualisation of overlaps in organisations

We have about 3000 of late 18th century people belonging to different social affiliations (Masonic lodges, Illuminati, student fraternities etc.) It would be interesting to see which organisations shared members and which excluded each other - and it would be interesting to see how these configurations changed over time.

One might do this in something like Venn diagrams with overlapping circles of different sizes reflecting the respective numbers of members.

Genealogical information

We have an increasing pool of genealogical information as in the case o Gotha's pastors - mapped over 500 years we can see how the pastorate was a business of families - we have not yet found out how display such information and how to correlate it with information like professions in a territory.

Business continuities

I showed this for Munich's book trade: the continuities behind the many names of publishers. They actually inherited licences and passed them on, and these licences did not really increase that much over time. It would be good of have a data model and visualisation that can reproduce these patterns. (I filled a Wikipedia article with the diagram: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchner_Buchhandel_1500%E2%80%931850 - and this would be the picture one would like to give for the development of trades in cities... --Olaf Simons (talk) 21:09, 7 September 2019 (CEST)