High values cargoes’ networks (S2)
Introduction Ancient Venice, a beautiful and vigorous city full of opportunities—merchandises, traders, and wealth. This project will tell you the stories of the high value cargos in the ancient...
View ArticleThe Concurrent Maritime Network of Republic of Venice and The Ottoman Empire
The Republic of Venice, formally known as the Most Serene Republic of Venice, was a state originating from the city of Venice in north eastern part of Italy. Throughout its existence of more than 1000...
View ArticleAlgorithm models for maritime routes (S5) – Project Description
by Adam Damiano and Chun Xie Project Definition The modeling of ancient shipping paths and itineraries can be approximated with the use of records from shipping ports and vessels. However, even with...
View ArticlePirate and Corsairs (S1)
Introduction As a golden city of maritime commerce, Venice attracted not only merchants but also hundreds of thousands of pirates. In fact, piracy together with corsairs, are highly related to maritime...
View ArticleData acquisition and further planning
The idea is to embed in the WordPress page a timeline of the Venetian territories throughout the period 1100-1600. This timeline consists of two parts: A time slider listing the historical events, in...
View ArticleProgress Blog Post 1
Algorithm Selection The first task associated with the project this semester was to decide how the algorithm would specifically work and which algorithm would be used. Because this is a path based...
View ArticleProgress blog post 1
Data Collection & Analysis The Difficulty in Data Collection Our project was designed to organize and visualize the data of some selected high-value cargos imported or exported in the ancient...
View ArticleProgress blog post 1: The Concurrent Network of Venice and Ottoman Empire
In this progress report, we will present the update of our literature report effort and the technical difficulties that we encountered during the last few weeks. Upon discussion with the Teaching...
View ArticleBlog Post 1
Progress Blog post 1 The goal of my project is to construct a map of piracy activities near Venice from 15th century to 17th century. Therefore, I need to build a sizable database which contains...
View ArticleRoute Planner – First steps
Globally renowned as a city of urbanistical peculiarity and incredible artistic heritage, Venice has always been famous as one of the most powerful maritime republic during the Late Middle Ages, the...
View ArticleA working example
The geographical timelapse project is now well underway and on schedule. In the past couple of weeks, I focused on producing a working example of the final Venetian and started filling it up with...
View ArticleProgress Blog Post 2
Data Importation Further work has continued on the importation of meteorological data into the program. At this point, the wind data has been implemented; however, each query takes about 0.1 seconds....
View ArticleProgress blog post 2: The Concurrent Network of Venice and Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire Trade and Other Economic Activity in 16th Century In the previous blog post we have discussed our limited results and difficulties in collecting literature data about Venice-Ottoman...
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Data Visualization Our objective is to create a network topology of the various high value cargos (silk, spice, and slave) traded in the ancient Venice. After an investigation, we decide to use d3.js...
View ArticleShip Route Dataset and related work [S6]
In the first post we left at the very end of the digitization process, when all the required informations from the csv file were to be cleaned and fixed. This process has been perfomed, as previously...
View ArticleEnriching the timemap
Edit by C.B.: To view the demo, access this blogpost with its direct link. The last couple of weeks have been dedicated to the enrichment of the Timemap presented in the previous article, which now...
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Ant Colony Optimization Over the last month, the ant colony optimization has been implemented into the program. An ant colony optimization finds the quickest path by simulating the way in which ant...
View ArticleProgress blog post 3: The Effect of War on trade between Venice and Ottoman...
Having explained the data that we will utilize in our project in the previous blog post, we will dedicate this edition of our progress blog post to describe the way we will represent the data to the...
View ArticleHigh Value Cargo Networks: Progress Blog Post 3
Data Source The new data we collect are a research paper about slave, a website about silk route map, and a website about a chronology of silk route. The research paper was written by Mrs. Sally McKee,...
View ArticleVenetian Maritime Routes – Final steps
In this third blog post we start introducing what the final result of this project will be (finally) and then we are going to briefly illustrate what has been done since the previous step and end up...
View ArticleTimemap of the Venetian Empire
The timemap of the Venetian Empire project aims to bridge the gap between maps of the Venetian Empire at a given year, and timelines of the Venetian history. The idea is to associate the historical...
View ArticlePiracy and corsairs in the Mediterranean Sea
Objectives and deliverables The aim of this project is to build a GIS layer that shows the level of “piracy-danger” in the Mediterranean Sea. In order to reach this goal, we will proceed step-by-step....
View ArticleAlgorithm models for maritime routes
Navigation on land is now a solved problem with many free solutions available on the web. Maritime routes are different from land routes; there are no pre-defined roads and arbitrary crossroads,...
View ArticleModelling the flow of paintings in Venice
Objectives and Deliverables Maybe you have already been to an art museum at least once in your life and enjoy the some of the artworks there. However, have you ever stood in front of a painting and...
View ArticleModelling the evolution of frontiers
Understanding and presenting the evolution of frontiers, where digital maps can help tremendously, allows us to draw conclusion on the cultural background of the studied area. But digitizing historical...
View ArticleProgress Report I
Introduction In this blogpost, we summarize what we have done in the first two weeks of ‘Algorithm models for maritime routes’ project. As we showed in our project plan and schedule, we finished 2 main...
View ArticlePiracy and corsairs in the Mediterranean Sea – First step
Reminder of the initial project The project was supposed to provide a GIS map showing the level of “piracy-danger” in the Mediterranean Sea. The plan was to use both information about maritimes routes...
View ArticleModelling the evolution of frontiers: Progress Report 1
Reconsidering our project In the first week of the new semester, we tragically discovered that our project as planned does not make much sense. Our predecessor Antoine Imboden has already collected a...
View ArticleModelling the flow of paintings in Venice (Progress Report 1)
Introduction In this blogpost, we will summarize what we have accomplished for the first 3 weeks of the schedule and some changes of the plan according to the current situation. Progress As indicated...
View ArticleAnalysis of the auction values in the Venetian Incanto system over time
Ancient title of the project: Piracy and corsairs in the Mediterranean Sea. Follow on In the previous blogpost, we agreed on the data we would like to collect for our study, and identified possible...
View ArticleProgress report 2
Introduction In this blogpost, we summarize what we have done after publishing the first progress report of ‘Algorithm models for maritime routes’ project. The following consists of 2 main parts...
View ArticleModelling the flow of paintings in Venice (Progress Report 2)
Introduction In this blogpost, we will summarize our progress in gathering paintings data since the last blogpost. Along with that will be some changes in the scope of the project and the schedule of...
View ArticleModelling the evolution of frontiers: Progress Report 2
Progress compared to project calendar During a meeting with our assistent Olivier one week after our last blogpost, we have decided to again restructure our project, focusing on an EPFL open source...
View ArticleBuilding a Digital DataBase and Preliminary Results
In the previous blogpost, we identified and agreed on an interesting problematic for our project, as well as a methodology to try and answer to the latter. The success of the proposed methodology was...
View ArticleModelling the evolution of frontiers: Progress Report 3
Progress compared to project calendar The goals for this milestone were: A first draft of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) and its features are implemented. The general structure stands and can be...
View ArticleProgress report 3
Introduction In this blogpost, we summarize what we have done up to now as the third progress report of ‘Algorithm models for maritime routes’ project. The following consists of 2 main parts including...
View ArticleModelling the flow of paintings in Venice (Progress Report 3)
Introduction In this blogpost, we will summarize our progress in processing paintings data since the last blogpost and the ongoing process of implementing everything graphically. Progress As indicated...
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