Tuesday, October 27, 2015
For a general introduction to network analysis, start with Scott Weingart's work here:
- Weingart, Scott. “Demystifying Networks.” The Scottbot Irregular, December 14, 2011. http://www.scottbot.net/HIAL/?p=6279.
Second, see Elisa Beshero-Bondar on her own applications of this material, and secondly a glossary of hers:
- Beshero-Bondar, Elisa. “An Introduction to Network Analysis and Cytoscape for XML Coders: First, Some Background.” Confessions of a Digital Romanticist, June 30, 2015. http://ebeshero.github.io/thalaba/cytosc.html#background.
- ___. "Some Key Locational Terms and Concepts in Network Analysis." Confessions of a Digital Romanticist, March 6, 2015. https://digitalromanticist.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/some-key-locational-....
If you'd like a bit more background on XML, might I suggest yet a third of my colleagues (!), David Birnbaum:
- Birnbaum, David. “What is XML and Why Should Humanists Care? An Even Gentler Introduction to XML.” <oo>→<dh> Digital Humanities, April 15, 2004. http://dh.obdurodon.org/what-is-xml.xhtml.
On the visualization of networks, you can consult apost by Elijah Meeks to start (he jumps right in, though):
- Meeks, Elijah. "More Networks in the Humanities or Did Books Have DNA?" Digital Humanities Specialist, Stanford University Libraries, December 6, 2011.https://dhs.stanford.edu/
Tools for Playtime:
- Raw, from Density Design: http://raw.densitydesign.org/
- Palladio, from Stanford University's Humanities + Design: https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/
A Few Topics to Consider (i.e. if you can describe what these are by the end of the workshop, I'll have gotten somewhere!):
- Degree
- "The Centralities"
- Co-Citation Networks
- How GIS and Network Analysis require somewhat similar mindsets
And, for reference, here are a few projects that are currently discussing issues surrounding network ontologies in the Early Modern World :
- Mapping the Republic of Letters, http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
- Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/
- Itinera, http://itinera.pitt.edu
- Manner of Belonging, http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/johnson