Interactive Networks for Digital Cultural Heritage Collections: Scoping the Future of HistoGraph

Network visualizations are powerful albeit suggestive means to represent and explore complex relations between entities people, words, places' and have become increasingly popular in the humanities. In this article we briefly introduce the functionality of histoGraph, a technical demonstrator for the network-based analysis of photographs, survey current applications of network visualizations in the cultural heritage domain, and outline histoGraph's future development as an open source tool for the visualization of cultural heritage data.