Inspired by Bill Turkel's bibliography clusters, I spent the last week playing with GraphViz. Here is a relatedness graph generated by the subject page for my great grandfather: One big problem with this graph is that it shows too many subjects. Once I add subject categorization, a filtered graph becomes a way of answering interesting questions. Viewing the graph for … [Read more...] about Feature: Subect Graphs
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Matt Unger on Article Links
Matt Unger has been kind enough to send his ideas on article links within transcription software. I've posted my plans here before, but Matt's ideas are borne of his experience after six months of work on Papa's Diary. Some of his ideas are already included by my link feature, others may inform FromThePage, but I think his specification is worth posting in its entirety. If … [Read more...] about Matt Unger on Article Links
Feature: Subject Indexes
One of the main goals of the diary digitization project is to create printed versions of Julia Brumfield's diaries to distribute to family with little internet access. The links between manuscript pages and articles described below provide the raw material for a print index. Reading storing page-to-article links in RDBMS record makes indexing almost, but not quite … [Read more...] about Feature: Subject Indexes
Feature: Article Links
Both Wikipedia and Pepys Diary Online allow hyperlinks to be embedded into articles. These links are tracked bi-directionally, so that by viewing an article, you can see all the pages that link to it. This is an easy enough thing to do, once you allow embedded links: UI The text markup to insert a link needs to be simple and quick, yet flexible if the scribe has the need … [Read more...] about Feature: Article Links