Influence and provocation: Understanding relationships within a thematic research collection

ABSTRACT In this poster, we present two interfaces for visualizing the relationships between ideas, issues and scholarship within a thematic research collection and discuss a graph‐based data model for representing those ideas. These interfaces are intended to support collection understanding and exploration for non‐specialist users within the context of a collection of 2000 historical documents spanning 300 years. The research question that drives the design of these tools is how to represent the deeply internalized conceptual framework acquired by a scholar over decades of study and communicate that information to non‐specialists effectively.