Heml

Heml is the Historical Event Markup and Linking Project, centered at the Dept. of Classics, Mount Allison University under the direction of Professor Bruce Robertson. It hosts projects pertaining to generalized visualization and markup tools for history, as well as web-based technologies for language learning and study.

Fawcett

Fawcett is

  1. a toolkit of javascript historical visualizations that operate through SPARQL queries of RDF data. Some examples under rapid development:
    • A historical map
  2. Modifications to the Joseki SPARQL server to support historical queries.

Quercei: Easy Treebanking

Quercei is a Ruby on Rails application that provides a browser-based visual treebank composer.

Its introductory Video:

Text-Mining

Heml has become a member of the Atlantic Computational Excellence Network, whose computing facilities we are using in historical textmining experiments. We are starting with the full text of Wikipedia from which we hope to extract over 10,000 geolocated and temporally-defined events in order to test the tools developed in the Fawcett sub-project.

At present, a wiki page is keeping track of the code snippets and techniques we are using to divide and parse Wikipedia.

Heml-cocoon

heml-cocoon is a java web application built upon the Cocoon 2.1 framework. It transforms events marked up in an XML schema into timelines, maps and animated maps represented in SVG. Though it is no longer undergoing active development, its schema is the basis of the extensions to CIDOC-CRM in RDF Schema that define the data for Fawcett. Its SVN repository is still browsable.