In 2015 I quit my full-time job as an ASP.NET developer to build what I think of as an &quot;atlas of history&quot; for the Italian Renaissance. It is a semantic-web style database build in Neo4j, .NET MVC, and KnockoutJS, and is an attempt to build a map of historical events and personalities for the digital humanities.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;the-codex.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;the-codex.net</a><p>I am currently the sole developer, product designer, and researcher on the project -- but I am looking for collaborators who would be willing to help me take this further.<p>As an &quot;atlas of history&quot; is a broad concept I decided to give the project clarity by focusing primary source documents from the Italian Renaissance. The two main sources at present are the &#x27;Florentine Diary&#x27; of Luca Landucci and the letters of Michelangelo. I have entered about 40 years worth of entries from Landucci&#x27;s diary and a good portion of Michelangelo&#x27;s early letters from his Roman period. In the process I have added hundreds of historical personalities, places, artworks, etc., in order to give the user real data to work with. I have also built various screens with data visualisation tools to mine the historical events. And of course I have built an extensive back-end for managing the data and relationships.<p>Is anyone interested in helping me out? I&#x27;d love input from anyone with an interest in art history and graphic design, or data visualisation tool, Neo4j, or anyone who wants to help me research and enter data.<p>Feel free to email me any time at: iian.d.neill@gmail.com<p>In the meantime, why not check out the Control Panel on Leonardo da Vinci&#x27;s dataset. Clicking any links in the text will load the datasets for those entities; or you can search for them by name. Why not try adding Michelangelo&#x27;s dataset to the mix? You can then switch between the three data-vis modes at the bottom, fiddle with the date filters, etc.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;the-codex.net&#x2F;Time&#x2F;ControlPanel" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;the-codex.net&#x2F;Time&#x2F;ControlPanel</a><p>Many thanks,
Iian