Visualization for Changes in Relationships between Historical Figures in Chronicles

Author

Itoh, Masahiko ; Akaishi, Mina

Author_Institution

Inst. of Ind. Sci., Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 July 2012

Firstpage

283

Lastpage

290

Abstract

A huge number of historical documents that have been accumulated for a long time are currently being digitized. However, it is difficult for us to analyze and obtain insight into the past from such documents. This paper proposes an interactive visualization system to extract networks of historical figures from historical data and to show time-varying changes in their relationships. It enables users to explore changes in the structure of the network interactively. Moreover, it extracts characteristics of each relationship, such as hostile or friendly relations, and visualizes them on the network. It enables us to understand changes in past society better by exploring changes in relationships between people.

Keywords

data visualisation; document handling; history; information retrieval; interactive systems; changes visualization; historical data; historical documents; historical figures; interactive visualization system; network extraction; Color; Data mining; Data visualization; Databases; Educational institutions; Marine vehicles; Visualization; TimeSlice; chronological data; historucal documents; network visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualisation (IV), 2012 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montpellier

ISSN

1550-6037

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2260-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2012.55

Filename

6295827