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<h1><a href="http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/" rel="start section">Mapping the Republic of Letters</a></h1>
<p><strong><a href="#home" rel="start section">Mapping the Republic of Letters</a></strong> | A Humanities Research Project</p>
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<h2>Electronic Enlightenment<br>Correspondence Visualization</h2>
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<p class="annotation">Click image above to launch the correspondence
visualization tool. For links to letters at Electronic Enlightenment,
hold the SHIFT Key and drag your cursor over a vector.</p>
<p>Paper: <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/group/toolingup/rplviz/papers/Vis_RofL_2009">Visualizing the Republic of Letters, 2009</a></p>
<p>Historians and other humanities scholars are increasingly seeking to
develop and use visualization tools, methods, and theories for making
sense of patterns in large sets of heterogeneous historical data with
multiple dimensions. For example, the <a href="http://e-enlightenment.org/">Electronic Enlightenment</a>
database of over 55,000 letters and documents exchanged between 6,400
correspondents in the Republic of Letters presents a typical challenge
confronting the emerging field of digital humanities. How can humanities
scholars trained in close reading of individual documents make sense of
patterns in large sets of data?</p>
<p>The new challenges posed by an exponentially growing corpus of online
historical data also present an opportunity for collaborations with
computer scientists interested in data visualization, interpretation,
and human-computer interaction. Computer scientists are deeply
interested in how users interact with visualization tools to explore,
explain, and engage with data to create meaning. We engaged in an
iterative, collaborative effort that brought together historians,
computer scientists, and an academic technology specialist to design
data visualizations to represent the intellectual network of the
Republic of Letters.</p>
<p>The above visualization was developed in 2009 by Stanford Computer
Science professor Jeff Heer's students, Yuankai Ge, Daniel Chang, Shiwei
Song in collaboration with <a href="http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/">Mapping the Republic of Letters</a>, <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/project.php?id=1007">Tooling Up for Digital Histories</a>, and the <a href="http://e-enlightenment.org/">Electronic Enlightenment Project</a>.
We engaged in an iterative, collaborative effort that brought together
historians, computer scientists, and an academic technology specialist
to design data visualizations to represent the intellectual network of
the Republic of Letters.This mapping tool stands apart from the
collection, providing a visual browsing tool with direct links to the
digitized content in EE available to subscribers according to EEP's
subscription rules. (SHIFT drag over lines to see links.) The
visualization depicts connections between cities for over 55,000 letters
and documents exchanged between 6,400 correspondents from the
Electronic Enlightenment.</p>
<p>This visualization won the <a href="http://www.nacis.org/">North American Cartographic Information Society</a> 2009 Student Webmapping Competition prize in the interactive map category.</p>
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