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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.

Publications

21 Aug 2019

Article: Mining multiple sources of historical data

New DISSINET paper published in the Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association.

Outputs

10 Jan 2020

Bibliography: 2,000 records

The publicly available DISSINET bibliography in Zotero has reached 2,000 records.

18 Nov 2019

Map: Cathar houses, 1175–1244

New dataset and digital map of the “houses of heretics”.

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.

General announcements

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.

20 Aug 2019

New DISSINET research associate

Tomáš Diviák joins the DISSINET team.

Blogposts

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.