1. Group 1
Nikolaos Arvanitopoulos – EPFL
Stefania Coccato – Ca’ Foscari
Michael Mitchell - EPFL
April Morton – University of Geneva
Cristina Munno – Ca’ Foscari
#DHV13 #presentations

2. Opening the Libro d’Oro

4. Goal
Develop social networking environment, consisting of
standardized database and user friendly interface, in order
to
• Provide access to data so researchers can perform their
own analyses and research
• Provide environment for visualization and education

5. How?
• Centralize and standardize information related to
Venetians
• Provide access to data so researchers can perform their
own analyses and research
• Provide environment for visualization and education

6. Project Overview
Standardized
Database
User Friendly
Interface
Data Extraction
Data Input
Contributors
(Researchers and
Public Citizens)
Historical Figures
Data Input
Data Extraction
Visualization
Education
Researcher
networking
Open
Access
Open Source
Profiles:

8. Data Input:
Name: Jacopo Robusti
Nickname: Tintoretto
Parish
Date of birth/death
Occupation
Marriage
Children
Religion
Cause of death
(User Created)

9. Sources
• 1980 all digital information (privacy problems beginning 1943!)
• "Anagrafe" Population Register (1850-today)
• Derosas database (1850-1869, 30000 people of five parish) [2002]
• People Census (1871, 1881, 1891,1901, 1911, 1921, 1931, 1936, 1951,
1961, 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, 2011)
• Francesco Schroeder, Repertoio genealogico, 1770-1830
• Avogaria di Comun (register for nobles 1309-1797)
• Marco Barbaro's genealogy (patricians 1200-1700)
• rulersofvenice.org (1332-1524)
• Parishes register (Birth, Death, Marriages, Godparenthood...1500-till
today)
• Testaments 1200-1800

10. Validation – Wikipedia model
• Sources will be included for each field
• Possible to accept multiple inputs from
different sources and contributors
• Confidence score assigned for each entry
based on contributor information and source
• Disambiguation through multiple source
validation

11. Information Extraction for
Research
• Provide a way of for researchers to
perform their own analysis.
• For example:
 Social network analysis
 Epidemiology
 Puck analysis tool

12. Timeline
Year Objective
1 - 2 Data collection, Database Design, Interface
Design
3 Testing and maintenance

13. Humanities Lab Team
Title Job Description Role
PhD Database Designer Standardize, ensure extensibility
PhD Human Computer Interaction
Specialist
User friendly interface,
communicate with developers
PhD Venetian Historian Database design, archival
consulting, determine sources
PhD Web Designer/Developer Produce front end and connection to
back end
Post Doc Digital Humanities Specialist Oversee project, super user

14. Potential Sponsors
Bamford Charitable Trust
Charlotte Bonham Carter Charitable Trust
John Cohen Foundation
EC Sosnow Charitable Trust
Evanda Foundation
Foreign and Colonial Trust
Peter Moores Foundation
PDC Trust
Rothschild Foundation
Velay Foundation
Veneziana Fund
D & R Williams Foundation

15. Impact
• Participative model entices the public and
could open new sources
• Open model will adapt to research needs
• Aggregates diverse sources in one
database
• Visualize the plurality of history