Compus: visualization and analysis of structured documents for understanding social life in the 16th century

Authors:
Jean-Daniel Fekete;Nicole Dufournaud
Affiliations:
Ecole des Mines de Nantes, 4, rue Alfred Kastler, La Chantrerie, 44307 Nantes Cedex, France;Université de Nantes, Faculté des Lettres, Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, 44312 Nantes Cedex 3, France
Venue:
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This article describes the Compus visualization system that assists in the exploration and analysis of structured document corpora encoded in XML. Compus has been developed for and applied to a corpus of 100 French manuscript letters of the 16th century, transcribed and encoded for scholarly analysis using the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative. By providing a synoptic visualization of a corpus and allowing for dynamic queries and structural transformations, Compus assists researchers in finding regularities or discrepancies, leading to a higher level analysis of historic source. Compus can be used with other richly encoded text corpora as well.