General:VisualizingSocialNetworks

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Revision as of 22:47, 21 September 2009

Contents

User Story Creator Identification

This is optional. Provide if you are comfortable doing so.

Name: Susan Brown

Email: Susan.Brown@ualberta.ca

Tell us something about your level of study and the type of institutional appointment you hold. 
Choose any of the terms below that apply to you:
* undergrad
* grad
* part-time instructor
* pre-tenure faculty member
* tenured faculty member
* archivist-librarian
* independent scholar
* creative practitioner
* interested citizen

Role: researcher

Institution: University of Alberta

Field of Study/Creative Endeavor: English; digital humanities

Self-description

Please write a paragraph about your persona as a researcher: your position, your discipline, your general research interests, 
and the extent to which you use computers in your research. 
You may wish to mention particular tools that you use with some regularity.

{{{selfDescription}}}

Project

Please provide a short description of the larger project from which this story emerges.

{{{project}}}



Story

I'd like to be able to trace networks of influence that affected Canadian writing. This would mean, for instance, being able to identify a group of people, such as the TISH poets (this could be either by identifying them by name, or performing a search or series of searches in which I gradually built up the group I wanted to visualize associations for) and see what writers were connected to them and how everyone was connected to each other. I'd like some way of slicing the visualization over time, for instance, to see what relationships persisted, or which were key at key periods for the journal. Or I'd like to be able to start with an organization, such as the Canada Council or the Women's Press, and see a network of associations radiating out from them. I want to be able to define what kinds of relationships are important to me. So for instance in the Women's Press one, I'd want to compare the professional relationships (books published by WP; worked for WP; assesssed mss for WP) with personal ones (friends, family, lovers; and in this case I might be really intererested in relationships that were at one or two remove, as well as direct ones) or see what kinds of overlaps between them there were.


How broadly do the practices described in this story apply to others in same field, in related fields, etc?
* broadly applicable
* shared by some
* shared by few or none

Scope:


Does your story describe current research activities that you think CWRC will enhance (present), 
or future research possibilities that you can only dream of now? (future)

Timeline: different historical periods according to interest


Please provide some keywords that will allow us to group or cluster related stories--or aspects of stories. 
Use as many of the ones listed below as relevant or provide your own.
* Aggregate
* Annotate
* Consider
* Discover
* Interact
* Publish
* Archive/Preserve
* Share
* Visualize
* Map
* Historicize
* Edit
* Network
* Collaborate
* Integrated History of Women's Writing in Canada
* Orlando

Keywords: social networks; visualization


Are there parts of the story that relate to other CWRC stories? 
Please provide title(s) and link to the relevant story page.

Related Stories:


Are there tools that do some of the sorts of things you'd like to see in CWRC? 
If so, what are they?

Related Tools: