Content mining and visualization of traditional genealogies of China – Deployed on the genealogy of Wu's in Gaoqian, Zhejiang

Facing the elite figures in the traditional genealogy of China, this paper advocates that the traditional genealogy archives should be transformed into multi-dimensional resources by means of combining historical and humanistic analysis with digital technologies in order to analyze and display the family elite culture. This paper takes the genealogy of Wu's from Zhejiang Province of China as the research material, and constructs the genealogy ontology, in order to reveal the trend of digitalization of traditional genealogy research. This paper constructs the concept system and relationships of the genealogy ontology, and takes Wu Shilai, the ancestor of the 23rd generation of Wu's, as an example to realize the visualization of Chinese traditional genealogy. The significance of the visualization of traditional genealogy archives in "the construction of new rural talents' and "the construction of family heritage' is put forward

Dynamic literature mapping : typography in screen-based media

This paper chronicles the development of a visual map representing a literature search on key theorists and thinkers in two principal topics: Typography and New Media. Its aim is to visualise and facilitate conceptual connections between key ideas and philosophies across disciplines. This literature map was drawn up by reviewing available influential literature within these topics. Related categories were later added and a further series of literature searches were conducted to build references in each topic. This on-going cyclical process serves to construct a comprehensive contextual map of knowledge. The benefit of the map is twofold. Primarily, aiding the researcher to navigate and understand complex layers of information. Secondly, allowing the researcher to present and share representations of knowledge. The clarity of the representation is crucial in eliciting the participation of fellow design researchers and practitioners to the development and growth of the literature map

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Access to recorded interviews: A research agenda

Recorded interviews form a rich basis for scholarly inquiry. Examples include oral histories, community memory projects, and interviews conducted for broadcast media. Emerging technologies offer the potential to radically transform the way in which recorded interviews are made accessible, but this vision will demand substantial investments from a broad range of research communities. This article reviews the present state of practice for making recorded interviews available and the state-of-the-art for key component technologies. A large number of important research issues are identified, and from that set of issues, a coherent research agenda is proposed

Veronese\u27s martyrdom Of St. Justina : The Promotion Of A Local Martyr Saint

The altarpiece for the high altar of the Benedictine basilica of Santa Giustina in Padua, painted by Paolo Veronese around 1575, depicts the martyrdom of Justina, an Early Christian saint. While art historians often discuss late sixteenth-century images of martyrdom within the general historical context of the Counter-Reformation, St. Justina\u27s increased prominence during this period was also connected to a more specific historical event: the Battle of Lepanto of 1571. The naval victory of the Catholic Holy League alliance over the Ottoman Turks on the saint\u27s feast day (October 7th) increased the popularity of the saint\u27s cult within the Venetian Republic. While Veronese\u27s monumental altarpiece undoubtedly reflected this promotion, the work also managed to invoke the ancient and medieval history of the local commune of Padua. The painting\u27s use of martial imagery linked the various geopolitical interests involved in the saint\u27s cult (Padua, Venice) at the same time that such imagery helped bridge the historical gap between late antiquity and the contemporary world. I argue that long-established written and visual connections between martyrdom and military conflict guided viewers toward an understanding of the saint as a significant participant in local history and politics

Chaucer\u27s \u3cem\u3eTroilus and Criseyde\u3c/em\u3e in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire

I explore the dynamics of homosociality in late medieval culture, investigating both Chaucer\u27s Troilus and Criseyde and its cultural and political environments. I articulate two conflicting attitudes toward male same-sex relations: one affirming and celebratory, the other homophobic. I conclude that Chaucer\u27s poem both replicates and generates a late medieval sociocultural discourse characterized by tension between normative male same-sex behavior and the potential politicization of such behavior. In the introductory chapter, I survey important recent historical and feminist criticism of Troilus and Criseyde and situate my project within the current debate regarding definitions of premodern sexuality. In chapter 2, part one, drawing on medieval concepts of imagination and vision, as well as psychoanalytically-inflected film theory, I suggest that chivalric treatises, biographies, and romances invite novice knights/readers to call forth potentially homoerotic images of model figures. I go on to examine eroticized male-male encounters in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur. In part two, I delineate the emotional intensity which informs male same-sex bonds in Amys and Amylion and the French Prose Lancelot by situating these texts within a biblical, classical, and medieval literary tradition that celebrates homosocial intimacy. Chapter 3 examines politically-motivated depictions of male same-sex intimacy in important fourteenth-century historical texts. After exploring how testimonies from the trials of the Knights Templar produce a narrative of aggressive same-sex behavior, I demonstrate how the major chronicles of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II wage a politically-motivated attack on each King\u27s relationship with his court favorites. I argue that the chroniclers were not attacking the idea of close male friendships, but rather Edward\u27s and Richard\u27s choice of intimate companions. Chapter 4 examines how Chaucer\u27s poem exemplifies, complicates, and dramatizes key homosocial interactions illustrated or suggested in chivalric texts. Drawing on Freud, his feminist and queer interpreters, as well as Rene Girard\u27s and Eve Sedgwick\u27s theories of triangulated desire, I articulate the interplay between homoeroticism and heterosexual desire. In chapter 5, I argue that, by depicting Troilus and Pandarus as advisee and adviser, respectively, Troilus and Criseyde suggests the highly criticized relationship between Richard II and his court favorites. I then demonstrate how the text moves against Troilus and Pandarus\u27 friendship