• LibViz





    LibViz


    explore and play with references

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    About LibViz
    version beta 0.4

    PRESENTATION

    LibViz allows to generate interactive data visualisations (graphs) from sets of Zotero bibliographic references.

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    Zotero is a tool allowing to bookmark webpages and to organise them in folders, add tags, comments, and so on. But such references are almost always interlinked : an article in a magazine, a webpage, a story you heard, or a book often refers to other books, page, etc... If you try to draw the network references of every book in a library this could quickly become really complex, the map of interelations becomes a huuuge maze.

    With, LibViz we tried to make visible such networks, but foremost to make networks of interlinked references you can navigate in and manipulate. The graphs are generated from public Zotero sets of references such as this one

    so in short, LibViz : explore and play with references


    HISTORY

    LibViz started as a part of 1.CAMP, which is a larger project aiming to cross different topics as the anthropocene era, art, new practices, scientific research, ...
    Julien Bellanger could tell more about this part...

    Then other people - namely Ewen Chardonnet and Xavier - joined the project, wanting some visualisation for their own datasets : their other bibliographical references gathered in Zotero. Considering all datas had the same root (i.e. Zotero) we thought about making an application able to display those different datasets from one and only place. The LibViz project eventually aimed to be as 'neutral' as possible to accept any kind of dataset from Zotero.


    UNDER THE HOOD

    LibViz development is documented HERE and on GitHub.

    LibViz is powered by...

    • Python to get the references and create the JSON datasets
    • Zotero to organise bibliographical references
    • Flask as backbone of the website
    • Bootstrap for the global aspect website
    • d3.js library by Mike Bostock to create the graphic interactive visualisation

    CREDITS

    Project by PING / ARTLABO / LABOMEDIA and developped by Julien P with the precious help of Julien Bellanger, Benjamin Cadon, Ewen Chardonnet, et Xavier

    This application is inspired by a previous work called "Constellations bibliographiques" developped by Laurent Malys.


    LICENCE   Creative Commons License

    LibViz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .

    How to use LibViz

    Node infos and neighbours

    Simple click on a node :
    show infos or/and release the node
    Double click on a node :
    show neighbours
    Hide or show all filters and infos

    Animation, zoom and pan graph

    Play / pause the animation
    Zoom in the graph
    Pan the graph
    Reset the zoom
    Release all pinned nodes

    Filters

    ref-group Break links between nodes
    groups Show/hide nodes by categories
    group/tag Show/hide nodes by group/tag

    Radial fixing

    tag Click to create radial layout
    Click to release all nodes

    Refresh and reload

    Refresh the view
    Reload dataset from Zotero
    Developped for PING and ARTLABO by Julien P. - 2016   Creative Commons License