2024
Type of result: R – NETLET Edition Converter
The NETLET Edition Converter software enables the creation of structured metadata from printed editions of correspondence of selected personalities and their subsequent use for storage in a database. The source material can be data in PDF text formats as well as data obtained by scanning printed editions, where OCR will be used to extract full texts. Logical sections will be recognised and structured as required.
2026
Type of result: R – NETLET Analysis and Visualisation
NETLET Analysis and Visualisation software is a new interface integrating a wide range of digital tools such as Palladio, Raw, Gephi, Sigma.js and Polymaps to create digital visualisations using correspondence collections data and metadata of different personalities. It will also make possible the correspondence collections examination using network analysis methods, focusing on A) the centrality of participants in a given correspondence network; B) the degree to which they mediate between two or more networks; and C) co-citation networks mapping individuals mentioned in letters in relation to specific topics or debates.
Type of result: R – NETLET HIKO
A new version of the open source HIKO software for operating a database of historical personalities’ correspondence, developed within the NAKI “Alois Musil” DG20P02OVV006 project, which will be enhanced with new functions thanks to the NETLET project (e.g. more advanced work with full texts and extended metadata), will enable mass import of data obtained from printed editions and allow connecting to the NETLET Visualisation and Analysis interface.
2027
Type of result: S – NETLET Czech Correspondence Online
NETLET Czech Correspondence Online is a correspondence database of selected personalities from crucial periods of Czech history. Within the NETLET project, the database will include selected scientists, writers and partly even politicians’ correspondence files from three different periods: 1580–1670, 1870–1939, 1939–1989. It will include structured metadata containing mainly data on persons, time, places, document language, keywords and storage of letters. The full texts of the letters will also be available on a selective basis.
The NETLET Czech Correspondence Online database will serve as a base data source for the NETLET project’s visualisation and analytical tools, which will be integrated into its user interface.