3 Oct 2022 Early Christian Baptisteries online The most up-to-date geocoded dataset of 1,100+ Christian buildings from 3rd-12th century created with participation of DISSINET project now available online.
TIP 4 Aug 2022 Structured data vs. contextual complexity of texts: An unnecessary dilemma? David Zbíral and Robert Shaw briefly introduce the Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO), an approach to the human-controlled and data-driven transformation of texts to richly structured data, which was developed within DISSINET modelling of historical textual sources.
1 Jan 2022 The DISSINET team is now complete! We are delighted to announce that, after two highly competitive hiring processes, DISSINET has gained two new members: Gideon Kotzé (computational linguist) and Larissa de Freitas Lyth (historian)
23 Dec 2021 Modelling German Waldensians’ social networks – thoughts of an associate researcher BLOG: Reima Välimäki short report on researching Stettin Waldensians social networks and about his experience with the DISSINET data model.
21 Aug 2019 Article: Mining multiple sources of historical data New DISSINET paper published in the Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association.
10 Jan 2020 Bibliography: 2,000 records The publicly available DISSINET bibliography in Zotero has reached 2,000 records.
17 Jun 2019 Map: Lollards, 1414–1522 The DISSINET team has recently been busy creating a digital map which shows the places of origin of Lollards based on their trial records.
1 Sep 2020 DISSINET is looking for a research assistant The Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET) seeks a short-term research assistant with competence in Latin language and in historical research.
3 Aug 2020 About DISSINET: Interview with Dr. David Zbíral Interview with the DISSINET project’s PI about DISSINET and the Digital Humanities.
2 Jul 2020 Why is the graph visualisation not always an ideal way to display network data? BLOG: When visualizing networks, a graph displaying this data as nodes connected with ties is definitely the first choice. However, this visualization often comes with significant disadvantages and should not be considered as the norm without considering other alternatives.