About LibViz
version beta 0.4
PRESENTATION
LibViz allows to generate interactive data visualisations (graphs) from sets of Zotero bibliographic references.
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...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
LibViz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .
