The “Visualizations” interface gives access to diagrammatic representations of the corpus according to different criteria. The information processed in these visualizations is extracted both from the metadata associated with text headers (title, author, date), and from the entities and relationships encoded in the body of texts (citations from the Book of Disquiet, references to other texts). Visualizations are presented in the form of a timeline and as networks. In addition to these aggregated visualizations of the corpus, it is possible to visualize timeline and networks of textual relationships for each Essay and each Fragment. Access to individual views is via the icons below the title of the Essay or Fragment on their respective pages. Multiple lines indicate that there are several references to the same text. All visualizations allow readers to go from the macroscale of diagrams to reading specific texts, and vice versa.


Timeline

In the Timeline table, the x-axis represents the publication dates of the Essays (1977 to 2018) while the y-axis contains the titles of the quoted Fragments from the Book of Disquiet (with a link to the respective text). Each cell within this coordinate system contains a circle that stands for an Essay (with a link to the respective text). These circles have different colors, each representing an Author.




Network Visualizations

Network Visualizations allow for the aggregation and separation of different layers of relationships. By marking quotations and references as bidirectional and unidirectional links across texts, the “LdoD Critical Reading” module makes explicit multiple networks of relationships that occur between the Book of Disquiet, the critical corpus, and other texts that critical readers relate to the Book, or to which the Book itself refers.



Network 1: relation of Authors (black) to their Essays (green);

Network 2: proportion of the number of Essays (green) relative to the number of Fragments (red);

Network 3: connection of Essays (green) to Fragments (red);

Network 4: connection of Essays (green) to other Essays in the corpus (green);

Network 5: connection of Essays (green) to External Linked Sources (blue);

Network 6: connection of Essays (green) to External Unlinked Sources (yellow);

Network 7: aggregate visualization of four types of citation or reference (i.e., to Fragments, to Essays, to External Linked Sources, and to External Unlinked Sources).