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A Synoptic Visualization Framework for the Multi-Perspective Study of Biography and Prosopography Data

Florian Windhager, Paolo Federico, Saminu Salisu, Matthias Schlögl, Eva Mayr

Biographical and Prosopographical Data and Views

How do we move from ‘Split Attention’ Interfaces to a Systematic Support of Cognitive Information Integration?

•  Temporal •  diachronic, longitudinal, dynamic, time-oriented

•  Cross-sectional •  synchronic, structural, spatial, non-temporal

Biographical and Prosopographical Perspectives

Matrix of temporal and cross-sectional VIS methods for biographical and prosopographical data

Space-time cube for biographical and prosopographical data

Geographic Space-Time Cube

[Kapler, 2004; Windhager, 2017]

TIME

TIME

Relational Space-Time Cube

[Federico, 2011]

Categorial Space-Time Cube

[Smuc, 2015]

Mediating Multiple Cross-Sectional and Temporal Views

[Bach, 2016; Schreder, 2016]

From Biographical to Prosopographical Data

Linking Multiple Space-Time Cubes

work 1

work 2

work 3

work 4

work 5

work 6

work 7

interaction A1

interaction A2

interaction B1

interaction B2

interaction C1

interaction D1

interaction D2

interaction C2

place B

place B

place B

place B

place A

place C

place A place D

place E

place E place B

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