GlamMap: Geovisualization for E-Humanities
Tha Thom Castermans, Bettina Speckmann, Kevin Verbeek, MA Michel Westenberg, Arianna Betti, Hein van den Berg · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · 2016
This paper presents GlamMap, a visualization tool for large, multi-variate georeferenced humanities data sets. Our approach visualizes the data as glyphs on a zoomable geographic map, and performs clustering and data aggregation at each zoom level to avoid clutter and to prevent overlap of symbols. GlamMap was developed for the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) domain in cooperation with researchers in philosophy. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by a case study on history of logic, which involves navigation and exploration of 7100 bibliographic records, and scalability on a data set of sixty million book records.