DBL ( Database of Byzantine Literati) aims to connect individuals (with professional or family ties), literary events (performances) and places. DBL focuses on men of letters, their associates and events related to them. The database generates single or dual ego-networks and maps with the spatial mobility of individuals and locations of literary performances. DBL provides research freedom : visual representations are created using parameters set by the user as well as in the software of the user’s choosing. DBL does not aim to map individuals’ lives (that is the trade of prosopography), although that is a set of data that inevitably emerge by entering performances.
There are three sets of data that are currently entered in
DBL
• Actors: Literati and their associates. The category includes scholars, patrons and other employers, students and teachers, relatives by blood or marriage, and other affiliates
• Performances: The display of a literary work either before a close circle of literary affiliates or before a wider public
• Locations: Places (regions, themata, cities, villages) where an actor resided at the time of a performance
Users can search or browse available data and export single or double node ego-networks and family trees in different file formats (GEXF, GraphML, GEDCOM, UCINET, and weighted edge list, edge list and adjacency list)
DBL is currently in a trial form. Your feedback is important!
