The project has developed a suite of tools to analyse and gain new perspectives on the correspondence data of both the Stuart State Papers and Early Modern Letters Online. A number of these are available as web applications, built using the R library Shiny.

Visual Filter

Visually facet the State Papers data, by people, place, keyword, and network.

https://networkingarchives.github.io/visual.html

Williamson’s News Network

Browse newsletters sent to Joseph Williamson’s office, by places mentioned (extracted using Named Entity Recognition).

Stuart State Papers Ngram Browser

Display charts of words and phrases over time from the abstracts of the Stuart State Papers.

https://networkingarchives.github.io/ngram.html

Overlaps Visualisation

Find shared neighbours for groups of individuals of unlimited size. Display a ‘compressed sub-graph’ and table view of shared neighbours.

https://networkingarchives.shinyapps.io/overlaps_emlo_stuart

Basic EMLO Metrics

Browse a list of EMLO catalogues and display basic network and geographic properties alongside a map.

https://networkingarchives.shinyapps.io/ego_networks/

Network Robustness Tool

This tool was developed alongside the paper ‘The Measure of the Archive: The Robustness of Network Analysis in Early Modern Correspondence’. Upload a network graph (in the form of an edge list), and calculate its robustness. The online version is limited to a network with 1,000 edges, but the source code can be downloaded to run the code locally with no limits.