dh101 2013/2014 projects

What you have do to

•Form groups and choose or invent a project (Deadline 13.11)•Use Framapad for this, put your name under the project you are interested in.

•Create an independent blog (NOT dh101.ch) for your project including(Deadline 11.12, 30 % of your final grade).•The definition of the project objectives and deliverables (100 words)

•A methodology section (How you will approach the digitization, modelisation and presentation of

your data) (750 words)

•A project plan with milestones

•Present the project orally in group on 11.12 or 18.12 (7 minutes presentations

+ 3 minutes questions, 20 % of your final grade)

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Digital Humanities 101 - 2013/2014 - Course 5 | 2013 11o

You can invent your own projects

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Timelines (T)

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Dominio daMar (T1)

Timeline of Dominio da Mar (cities,

fortresses, colonies)

The objective is to synthetize

chronogically the Venetians settlements

overseas. You will have to separate the

direct administration and the places

indirectly supervised by Venice. Territories

will appear and disappear over the

centuries.

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Dominio da Terra Ferma (T2)

Timeline of Dominio da Terra Ferma. The

goal is to see that Venice was also

powerful on the ground and locked the

key sites for exchanges and money :

rivers, cities, roads.

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Political structure (T3)

An evolution of the political and

administrative structure. The political and

administrative structure of Venice is

special. It’s a complex game of control

and retro-control. The objective here is to

visualize and to understand over the

years, how this system has been built and

what are the events at the origin of their

creation.

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Venetian cartography (T4)

History of Venetian Mapping from

Middle-Age to late Republic : from Fra

Mauro to Albrizzi Understand the

complex issues involved with mapping and

geographical representations in di↵erent

times. Following the work of prominent

Venetian cartographers via prominent

examples available online, visually

highlight the evolution of such craft.

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3D and procedural modeling (MP)

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A 3Dmodel of the Venetians ships (MP1)

A 3D model of the Venetians ships

(Galleys, Coques, Bucintauro...). The goal

of this project is to reconstruct in 3D the

model of some kinds of ships (including

the inside of ships !), based on the

documentation gathered by the DHLAB.

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Architectural grammars (MP2)

Automatic extraction of facades building

based on a picture. The objective of this

project is to build a system to extract the

architectural grammar of a building based

on a single picture and to use the

resulting models to recreate unknown

building using procedural approaches.

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The Lepanto battle (MP3)

A simulation of the Lepanto battle. The

Lepanto battle is still (with Trafalgar) one

of the greatest naval battles of the history.

It’s well documented and painted. The

objective of this project is to enter the

core of the battle and to go beyond the

narration or the simple 2D visualizations.

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Galley rowing (MP4)

How to row a Galley There were di↵erent

ways to row. The objective here is to

show in an interactive and didactic

manner the technics for moving those

giants of the seas.

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Facades of Venice (MP5)

A complete model of all the facade of

Venice. The goal of this project is to

create a database of all the facades of all

the buildings of Venice. The starting

point will be some existing 3D models like

one of Google Earth from which could be

extracted low quality pictures. The

challenge will be to improve these pictures

to create higher resolutions models.

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Data mining and pattern recognition (D)

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Tourists pictures (D1)

A ”Google Street View” of Venice. Based

on a large number of photo taken by

tourists is it possible to build a kind of

”Google street view” of Venice ? What

else can we extract from these pictures ?

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Ornaments in print (D2)

Matching techniques. Ornaments in print

o↵er a unique signature to identify the

origin of a printed documents. The goal

of the project is to extract from a

database of document ornaments

presented on each page and to design a

classifier permitting to attribute a given

set of ornaments to a given venetian

printer. The tool could be used to map

the di↵usion of venetian prints

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Citations of the archive (D3)

Text mining. The goal of this project is to

identify which sections or documents of

the Archivio di Stato are most often used

by scholars. The project could use text

mining techniques on articles or scanned

books to create representations of the

parts of the archive that are the most

used

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Maritime Networks (S)

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Piracy and corsairs (S1)

A representation of the piracy/corsairs

areas in the Mediterranean Sea. Pirates

and corsairs are where the high values

cargoes are transiting. The project can

model one type or another or follow some

famous characters. The objective is to

localize the dangerous areas and the

conflicts with the Venetians maritime

routes.

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High values cargoes’ networks (S2)

A representation of the high values

cargoes’ networks (silk, pepper, spices,

sugar, wood, metal, cotton, slaves...) The

objective is to model the network for

trading pepper, cotton, salt, slaves ...

from their countries of origin. This project

can be easily divided into several

subprojects focusing on one good.

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Pilgrimage (S3)

Pilgrimage from Venice to Jerusalem.

Testimonies are a great source and

important source of information. The idea

here is to extract the information from a

pilgrim about the trip on board of a

Venetian galley and to model the trip.

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Concurrent networks (S4)

A representation of the concurrent trades

at sea (Genovese, Pisano, Catalans,

Spanyards...) Everyone has an archenemy.

Venice had some for quite some time and

the major one was Genoa. The objective

here is to localize the main ports and

stopovers and to model their shipping

lanes.

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Algorithmmodels formaritime routes (S5)

Algorithm models for maritime routes.

The objective is to model itineraries

automatically when the stopovers are

known and to add collateral data such as

winds, currents, speeds known for the

ships used, etc.

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Route planner (S6)

A Mediterranean route planner Based on

the data available about the Venetian

ships, can we built a Mediterranean route

planner ? If I am in Corfu in june 1342

and want to get to Constantinople, when

can I take a boat ?

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Financial networks (F)

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Financial networks (F1)

The objective of this project is to model

the the complexity of the market and the

incoming/leaving flows of money in the

Venetian empire.

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Printing industry (P)

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Venetian prints (P1)

Mapping the venetian prints in Europe

Quantitative outlook through mining of

online catalogues. What was printed and

when ? Where is it now ? Query online

catalogs for Venetian printed old books

(i.e. before 1797), build a database out of

that. Make the database accessible via a

geomap, and add a time slider. What can

you conclude about Venetian printing

industry on the long run ?

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Mapping the printing industry inside Venice (P2)

Mapping the printing industry inside

Venice Take de’ Barbari’s map, make it

interactive with information about the

position of the di↵erent printing shop,

academies and other places of culture.

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Coevolution of the city with its environment (E)

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Acque Alte (E1)

A representation of the Acque Alte. How

can we model the rising level and the

floods in Venice ?

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The Plague (E2)

Venice and the plague The plague’s

epidemics have been strong during the

Middle-Age and Venice as a big city has

been hit badly. The idea is to visualize the

propagation of the disease into town as

well as the major changes the Venetian

administration in order to handle the

epidemics (quarantine, doctors,

lazaretto...).

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Life in Venice (L)

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Demography (L1)

Representation of the demographic

evolution. Venice was one of the most

populated cities during the Middle-Age. A

few information is available. How did

Venice grow ? Where are the major

incidents ?

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Famous characters (L2)

Following a famous character in Venice.

What are the di↵erences between the

Venice of Goldoni and the Venice of

Byron ? What were the building they

could have visited, where they were

meeting friends, hanging out. Can we

follow them into town ?

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Venetian cryptographies (L3)

Spies, code-crackers and ciphering Some

of the first code-crackers were working in

Venice, as Giovanni Soro at the beginning

of the 16th century, known as the father

of modern cryptography. What did

ciphers look like at the time in Venice ?

How and when were they used ?

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Visual representations of power (L4)

Visual representation of power : public

ceremony and the enforcement of social

hierarchy Get a scholarly understanding of

the socio-political implications of public

ceremonies via literature. Select

meaningful paintings (or other sources),

and build a visual explanation of (some

of) these events. The project could do

comparisons or highlights of

relations/di↵erences.

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A Facebook of the Venetian elite (L5)

A Facebook of the Venetian elite Based

on pictorial and textual source, recreate a

database of the Venetian elite, with

images of all the most important

characters.

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Digital History of VenetianMapping fromMiddle-Age to lateRepublic : from FraMauro to Albrizzi (L6)

Understand the complex issues involved

with mapping and geographical

representations in di↵erent times.

Following the work of prominent Venetian

cartographers via prominent examples

available online, visually highlight the

evolution of such craft. As a starting

point, focus on the transition between

Medieval and Modern sensibility, selecting

two prominent examples. As a plus,

integrate drawn maps with textual maps

into the project (i.e. maps in the form of

written texts).

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Venitian opera staging andmachinery

•A project that find way for better understanding and visualizing opera staging

based on evidences found in historical sources (treatise, music prints, etc.)

•Rosand, E. 1990. Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice : The Creation of a Genre.

Berkeley : University of California Press.

•Bjurstrom, P. 1962. Giacomo Torelli and Baroque Stage Design. Stockholm :

Almqvist and Wiksell.

•Leclerc, H. 1987. Venise et l’avenement de l’opora public A l’age baroque. Paris :

A. Colin.

•Larson, O. K. 1980. Giacomo Torelli, Sir Philip Skippon, and Stage Machinery for

the Venetian Opera, Theatre Journal, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 448-457.

www.jstor.org/stable/3207407

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Looking atmusic printing typefaces

•A project that looks at the di↵erent music typefaces used in Venetian

prints. Typical questions are : the size of the typeface, when they were

used, for what repertoire, what printers used them, etc.

•Agee, R. 1998. The Gardano Music Printing Firms, 1569-1611.

Rochester, University of Rochester Press.

•Bernstein, J. 1998. Music Printing in Renaissance Venice. The Scotto

Press (1539-1572). Oxford, Oxford University Press.

•Bernstein, J. 2001. Print Culture and Music in Sixteenth-Century Venice.

Oxford, Oxford University Press.

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Music at SanMarco

•A project that can look at how the capella di San Marco evolved over

time : how many musicians, where they played in the Basilica, what they

played, etc.

•Selfridge-Field, E. 1994. Venetian instrumental music from Gabrieli to

Vivaldi. New York : Dover.

•Moretti, L. 2004. Jacopo Sansovino and Adrian Willaert at St Mark’s,

Early Music History, Vol. 23, pp. 153-184.

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Venetianmusic prints in libraries today

•A project that looks at the production of music prints in Venice and

where they are hold today in libraries and archives around the world

•The Repertoire International des Source Musicales, Series A/I on music

prints. http ://www.rism.info [will be made available digitally for the

project]

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Venetian storytelling in theMiddle-Age

•Marin Sanudo was an historical writer. In contrast to others writer of the

epoch, he wrote a diary noting all the events happend in Venice. Of

course it is not the only one diary wrote in Venice. Imagine how to use

this personal information.

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