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Mindmap: Noel Radley with NovaMind

This mindmap reflects a number of of viz.'s connections in 2010-2011 including those with other blogs, photographers, museums, and initiatives, centers and programs both in the DWRL and at UT, Michigan State, and Rice University. Find out more details on our outreach after the jump. 

The documentation, representation and analysis of academic networks has a long tradition with, for instance, citation networks having been well-examined.  Even here at Stanford, the focus on studying academic collaboration, interdisciplinarity, citation and "the dynamics of knowledge creation" by projects like the Knowledge Creation Lab have led to research and interactive software like the Dissertation Browser, which allows for an exploration of the topic networks formed out of the texts of various dissertations.  In my own experience, however, describing the Wild West of Digital Humanities projects, groups, institutes, centers, collaboraties and informal teams is not so easy as downloading and reconciling authors and citations from a friendly and metadata rich on-line journal or aggregator, nor is it deeply embedded enough in network theory to easily sidestep the practical concerns that it evokes.  Describing the projects and participants in the Digital Humanities at Stanford using semantic links has produced enormously interesting, as well as enormously problematic, results.

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