Wikigrid - a platform for research in the Digital Humanites
A Semantic Media Wiki serving the digital humanities (and everyone interested) as a collective repository of primary information
- designed to collect metadata from
research institutions, archives,
libraries
- inviting researchers to
modify, augment and create
information and to use the grid as a
collective card box for preliminary
and sketchy information (as long as
items can be linked to primary
sources)
- inviting users to set links
between items and to analyze the
connections
- offering visualizations
such as
- the distribution of search results on
maps
- the configuration of networks
- timeline statistics
- quantifying diagrams