BLIZAAR is a research project on novel visualisation techniques for data generated in the fields of humanities and biology. The digitised sources in the CVCE’s collections on the European integration process contain a wealth of information on the interplay and relationships between thousands of people, institutions and locations. All these relationships can be seen as part of a large, highly complex network. The project uses this network to create new ways to search, explore and evaluate the content of the underlying collection.
BLIZAAR is an ANR/FNR-funded research project on visualisation techniques for multimedia humanities data and data generated in biological research. French and Luxembourgish scholars in visual analytics, an applied subfield of computer science, work together with humanists and biologists to develop user-oriented methods for the visualisation of complex datasets. For the humanities use case, BLIZAAR is developing novel approaches for the search, exploration and evaluation of large collections of multimedia documents such as texts, photos and interviews. BLIZAAR is based on the needs and practices of researchers from the former CVCE, who were actively involved in designing the project. The project was selected to receive funding from the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) and its French equivalent ANR under the agencies’ call for bilateral projects. It will be completed by the end of 2018.
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