I received an interesting inquiry with a surprising background. An artist, Tommie Introna, asked me whether I have information on a specific name appearing in some Lombardi piece. He reported that this name – that of his grandfather – … Read the rest
I now start to collect a list of Lombardis works. This list will be published in a suited metadata format soon und be used in some visualizations.… Read the rest
For a visualization of a timeline of works by Lombardi, I need data on his works. As it stands, this is not available in a sufficient manner but distributed over several sources, such as the excerpt from the MOMA-collection or … Read the rest
The paper Robert Tolksdorf. Digitally Researching the Network Drawings of Mark Lombardi, Leonardo Journal, 47(3):No. 3, pages 278-278, 2014 has just been published. You can also checkout the supplementary material with a video walkthrough of this site.… Read the rest
The current Linked Open Data (LOD) trend makes available huge amounts of machine processable information across all domains. The machine readable knowledge collection dbpedia (an extraction of information from Wikipedia) contains interesting information that might be interesting for further … Read the rest
We started to experiment with a small set of texts on Lombardi and to analyse this corpus.… Read the rest
We have taken a small set of three publications on Lombardi and extracted the names of all persons, companies and institutions mentioned therein. The reference might help to add more context and more associations to those explicitly in the works. … Read the rest
Two issues were dealt with. The links on nodes in the network visualizations work again with all mobile browers thanks to a d3 update. The two nodes in the merged network on Luchaire that appear in both works now are … Read the rest
Robert Tolksdorf. Initial report on digitally researching the network drawings of Mark Lombardi. Technical Report TR-B-13-03, Freie Universität Berlin, 2013. PDF.
Abstract: We do digital research on the artist Mark Lombardi (1951-2000) as an experiment in methods for … Read the rest
In addition to the current data, we wcollected a page with literature on Mark Lombardi. The sources cited there together for a high-quality text corpus related to Lombardi. Aside from being informative to visitors, we plan to use it. … Read the rest