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A Geographical Visualization of the GL Community: a Snapshot
“Today, in the spirit of science, grey literature communities are called to demonstrate their know-how and merit to wider audiences” [D. Farace, 2011].This quotation stresses the important role of the several international organizations in producing and disseminating knowledge in the field of Grey Literature (GL): the paper aims to provide a first snapshot of the...
Interactive animation of Descartes Refraction
This visualization shows how René Descartes explained the refraction of light in terms of his mechanistic philosophy (cfr. 'Les Météores' in Discours de la Méthode, 1637). Colour corresponds to the rotational velocity of a particle, and can be altered at the interface of two mediums. Though succesful as basis for his treatment of the appearence of the rainbow, Descartes'...
Interactive visualization of a surveying instruction
This visualization presents the user with the subsequent steps required to solve a surveying problem, typical for 17th-century instruction books. The user is asked to determine the distance between two reference points that are inaccessible, on the other side of the 'river'. Only by following the correct procedure with angle measuring instrument, measuring chain, pencil, and...
Visual exploration of the attribute space of DANS EASY metadata
Study of the metadata of the Electronic Archiving System (EASY) of Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) for the purpose of getting insight in the internal structure of the collection. The visualization contains a dump of the EASY metadata set and all important data files that were generated during this analysis and used for the interactive website. It contains...
Comparison of Topic Extraction Results
This data set was generated to compare topic extraction solutions against each other without the availability of an authoritative ground truth. The topics were extracted from a corpus of bibliographic data from the Web of Science of publications in 59 journals in Astrophysics and Astronomy published between 2003-2011. The comparative analysis was undertaken to obtain...
Animated, interactive 3D visualization of a corn mill, after a description by Ramelli
In this visualization, a 16th-century depiction of a corn mill is brought to life and interactively presented to the user. The source is Agostino Ramelli's Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine (1588), a highlight in the Early Modern Theatrum Machinarum tradition, which shows how elementary 'simple machines' can be combined into impressive compound devices, only limited by...