Visual Search
The Visual Search is a project for the Fortunoff Video Archive For Holocaust Testimonies that visualizes the collection’s metadata. I was the primary developer on this app.
Because the metadata was relatively small, and we wanted the app to be as inexpensive as possible to host, it is built with no backend, loading all of the data as flat JSON files.
Fortunoff Video Archive Director Stephen Naron co-wrote an article describing the design philosophy behind the tool for the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Document Blog.
Stephen and I also co-presented “Striking a Balance Between Ethics and Access: The FortunoffArchive’s Approach to the Digital Humanities” at Prague Visual History and Digital HumanitiesConference (PraViDCo) 2020 (program) (compendium of papers), which focused in part on the development of Visual Search.
Links
- “More Watching, Less Searching: Repurposing Fortunoff Archive Metadata for Visual Searching”, EHRI Document Blog - https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2020/08/31/fortunoff-archive-metadata/
- Visual Search - https://yale-fortunoff.github,.io/metadash
- Code repository - https://github.com/yale-fortunoff/metadash
- PraViDCo program - https://www.vhh-project.eu/…
- PraViDCo compendium of papers - https://www.researchgate.net/…