Visualize the digital humanities: Glass Cast

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to introduce Glass Cast, an interface for the visualization of knowledge networks, which could be deemed as an example of the involvement of professional designers from the stage of conceptualization of visualizations, specifically intended for digital humanities. The visualization of knowledge networks is based on explicit and implicit relationships between documents in a database. These relationships are determined on parameters such as authorship, time, topic, discipline or others that would depend on the researcher´s criterion. The data is acquired from reports created from Zotero, the well-known open citation manager. The full working interface can be downloaded from GitHub although it is open to changes, adaptations and improvements either from the original development team or from any other interested party.

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