In collaboration with the University of Bern and LARHRA, we develop Geovistory, an open source data publication platform and virtual research environment for the Digital Humanities.
Linked Open Research Data: The Digital Humanities team at the University of Bern drives the development of Geovistory as main implementer of the LOD4HSS project funded by swissuniversities, which aims at fostering open research data practices within the Geovistory environment.
FAIR Data Publication: In close collaboration with the Digital History research team of LARHRA (joint research unit of the CNRS and the Universities of Lyon & Grenoble), Kleiolab develops the Geovistory eco-system promoting FAIR research data production and publication.
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Migration & marriage in Venice of the 16th/17th century: Transcribing investigations (Processetti) conducted by the episcopal authority of Venice on brides & grooms of foreign origine, the projects makes use of Geovistory in order to annotate, systematically extract, manage and visualize information.
Urban Biographies: Using Geovistory to combine data from different databases, curate and present data on archeological sites and their inhabitants, the project team analyses the parameters for urban development in Roman/late antique Egypt of two important sites, Antinoopolis and Heracleopolis.
Aging from a Female Perspective: The Diaries of Anna Maria Preiswerk-Iselin (1758-1840) as a source for insights on the perception and coping with old age, illness, pain, and death. Geovistory is used to annotate the diary transcriptions and publish them as a digital edition.
Maritime History (pilot): Geovistory was used to integrate and structure various data collections related to the history of the Dutch East India Company. It allowed to quickly and easily create insightful visualizations. The semantic data produced with Geovistory is ready to be published.
Geovistory is a collaborative research environment, allowing you to pursue your research project with your colleagues or individually.
Geovistory allows you to start right-away with your research thanks to the pre-configured profiles containing the most relevant entity classes. Profiles can be extended according to the needs of your research question.
Thanks to its data repository overarching all projects, Geovistory allows you to draw on data and information curated by previous research while you keep complete control over your own project.
Geovistory reproduces the complete research process in digital form.
Compile your library with historical sources and transcriptions. Import pre-existing data collections.
Annotate and link your sources with structured data. Manage structured data around your research topic and build your own information system.
Analyse your data, generate (geographic) visualisations, export data as needed and write your stories.
Publish your stories and present your findings and your project specific information system to the public.
Our Data Model is based on longstanding experience – it is the key to Geovistory implementing the FAIR principles.
Our data model corresponds to the growing demand in research and new funding requirments to produce open, interoperable and reusable research data.
Geovistory is an open source environment that contributes to creating an open pool of well curated research data about historical realities. Structured data generated in Geovistory are published under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence and can be reused under the same licence.
Thanks to our event-centrered data model building on CIDOC-CRM, events and phenomena can be easily captured and entities changing over time are adequatly represented.
To make your research data easily reusable in accordance with the FAIR principles, we design together with you the data model on which your research questions are based.
We model the information in your existing data sets according to the CIDOC-CRM ontology and merge them so that a uniform and information-rich data set is created, which - if desired - can be managed and analysed in Geovistory.
We extend Geovistory with features such as analysis tools or export formats to meet the research requirements of your project.
We conduct training courses for you and your research team on all aspects of working with ontology-based virtual research platforms such as Geovistory.
Geovistory is Open Source! We have news to share. All structured data produced in Geovistory have always been licenced under Creative Commons BY-SA. Since september, all the code of Geovistory and OntoME is completely open source! Check out the Github-Repo and Weiterlesen…
Geovistory – LOD in Dialogue Event We are pleased to invite you to the event Linked Open Data in Dialogue, that will be held on Wednesday 15 November 2023 in the main building of the Weiterlesen…
The swissuniversities project LOD4HSS is launched. We are proud to have officially launched the LOD4HSS project together with the University of Bern, LARHRA and an amazing consortium of partner institutions! The project “Linked Open Data Weiterlesen…
Visit the Geovistory Portal! In the past months, we had the pleasure to develop the new Geovistory portal in close collaboration with the ARHN-Team of LARHRA! We are proud to present a first version that Weiterlesen…
Abschluss des vDHd-Experiments Am Donnerstag 16.9. von 9h bis 10h30 geht das mehrteilige vDHd-Experiment mit Geovistory zu Ende. Wir rekapitulieren die verschiedenen Etappen, präsentieren die Ergebnisse, ziehen Fazit und laden ein zur Diskussion. Neue Gesichter Weiterlesen…
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