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        [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=sanudodiary Diaries]
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==Introduction==
==Introduction==
Goal: Present the named entities in diary in an interactive way, e.g. map-based website. georeference the useful name entities with Venice places.
Main task is to present the named entities in diary in an interactive way, e.g. map-based website. georeference the useful name entities with Venice places.
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===About Sanudo===
For the ultimate goal, it is to provide an immersive experience that allows users to explore the diary in a spatially interactive format, deepening their engagement with the historical narrative.
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| Attributes || Data || Remark
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| Status || aristocrat ||
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| Occupation || Historian ||
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===Sanudo's Diary===
===About Sanudo===
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The Diaries of Marin Sanudo, composed between 1496 (when Sanudo was 30) and 1533 (just under three years before his death), represent one of the most comprehensive daily records of events ever compiled by a single individual in early modern Europe. Alongside Samuel Pepys’s shorter, more private, and deeply personal diary, they stand as one of the most important sources of their kind. Together with his other historical and documentary writings, which remained unpublished until the modern era, the Diaries have become an essential resource for any serious study of Renaissance Venice. They offer insights into various aspects of Venetian life, from diplomacy to public spectacles, politics to institutional practices, state councils to public opinion, mainland territories to overseas possessions, law enforcement to warfare, the city's landscape to the lives of its inhabitants, and from religious life to fashion, prices, weather, and entertainment. The strengths of his finest works, especially the Diaries and the De origine, situ et magistratibus urbis Venetae, establish Sanudo as the leading Venetian historian of his generation. [3]


<b>Transforming Sanudo’s index (1496 - 1533)</b><br>
<b>Question</b>: Where did Sanudo live? According to my knowledge, he "seat in front of his home at the sqaure" to note down every thing around him. Maybe we can make his living house as the entry point.


===Sanudo's Diary===


Database: [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabook?id=sanudodiary <The Diaries of Marino Sanudo>]
The Diaries of Marin Sanudo represent one of the most comprehensive daily records of events ever compiled by a single individual in early modern Europe. They offer insights into various aspects of Venetian life, from "diplomacy to public spectacles, politics to institutional practices, state councils to public opinion, mainland territories to overseas possessions, law enforcement to warfare, the city's landscape to the lives of its inhabitants, and from religious life to fashion, prices, weather, and entertainment".[2]
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        [https://archive.org/details/venicecitaexcele0000sanu/page/348/mode/2up?view=theater English selection & comment of Diary]
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<b>Transforming Sanudo’s index (1496 - 1533)</b>
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| Diary Duration || 1496-1533 || 37
| Diary Duration || 1496-1533 || 37
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| Quantity || 58 Volumes || around 40000 pages
| Quantity || 58 Volumes || around 40000 pages
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| Content Style ||  
| Content Style || deal with any matter || regardless of its ‘importance’


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===Deliverables===
==Project Timeline & Milestones==
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    <h4>2024/10/10</h4>
    <ul>
        <li>Conducted background information research and clarified project goals.</li>
        <li>Reviewed related articles, gaining insight into Sanudo's diary.</li>
        <li><b>Goals:</b>
            <ul>
                <li>Obtain diary text and extract place names.</li>
                <li>Match person names with place names.</li>
                <li>Link named entities to specific diary content.</li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Planned integration with the Venice interactive map frontend.</li>
    </ul>
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==Project Timeline & Milestones==
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===Team Journal===
    <h4>2024/11/14</h4>
- 2024/10/10:  
    <ul>
        <li><b>Midterm presentation completed.</b></li>
        <li><b>Summary:</b>
            <ul>
                <li><b>Current Progress:</b>
                    <ul>
                        <li>Data processing: Data obtaining, index extraction, column extraction</li>
                        <li>Filtering: Venice-name verification pipeline</li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li><b>Future Plan:</b>
                    <ul>
                        <li>Handle data discrepancies</li>
                        <li>Extract people names associated with place entities</li>
                        <li>Embed information into a map</li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li><b>Next Steps:</b>
            <ul>
                <li>Week 10: Extract people names associated with place entities</li>
                <li>Week 11: Create GIS-compatible format for pipeline output</li>
                <li>Week 12 (optional): Test integration with Venice front-end</li>
                <li>Week 13 (optional): Add context for name-place pairing</li>
            </ul>
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::Background Information research, project goal clarification.Outcome: Found and went through a related comment article [1]. Get an understnnding of the Sanudo's diary. Clarified some points:
::- Initial goal: obtain diary text and extract place names.<br>
::- Next tasks: 
:::  - Match person names with place names. 
:::  - Link named entities to specific diary content. 
:::  - Integrate everything into the map frontend.
::- For the interactive part:  We will be able to use the Venice interactive map frontend previously demonstrated by the professor.




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We identified three APIs which we could use to locate whether an entity exists in Venice or not. These were: Nominatim (OpenStreetMap), WikiData, and Geonames. We settled on Nominatim as the chief API, since it was the easiest to use and offered the most consistent results. Thus, we created a pipeline to extract place entities from the Sanudo's index and use the Nominatim API to search if the entity exists in Venice, and store the co-ordinates if so.


==Results==
==Results==
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https://pov-dev.up.railway.app/ (development version)<br>
https://pov-dev.up.railway.app/ (development version)<br>
https://pov.up.railway.app/
https://pov.up.railway.app/
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Interactive(?) book:<br>
https://valley.newamericanhistory.org/
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Document references:<br>
Document references:<br>
[1] Finlay, Robert. “Politics and History in the Diary of Marino Sanuto.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, 1980, pp. 585–98. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2860688. Accessed 10 Oct. 2024.
[1] Finlay, Robert. “Politics and History in the Diary of Marino Sanuto.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, 1980, pp. 585–98. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2860688. Accessed 10 Oct. 2024.
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[2]Image source: https://evolution.veniceprojectcenter.org/evolution.html
[2]Image source: https://evolution.veniceprojectcenter.org/evolution.html
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[3]Ferguson, Ronnie. “The Tax Return (1515) of Marin Sanudo: Fiscality, Family, and Language in Renaissance Venice.” Italian Studies 79, no. 2 (2024): 137–54. doi:10.1080/00751634.2024.2348379.
[3]Ferguson, Ronnie. “The Tax Return (1515) of Marin Sanudo: Fiscality, Family, and Language in Renaissance Venice.” Italian Studies 79, no. 2 (2024): 137–54. doi:10.1080/00751634.2024.2348379.

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Introduction

Main task is to present the named entities in diary in an interactive way, e.g. map-based website. georeference the useful name entities with Venice places.

For the ultimate goal, it is to provide an immersive experience that allows users to explore the diary in a spatially interactive format, deepening their engagement with the historical narrative.



About Sanudo


Sanudo
Sanudo's Background Information
Status aristocrat
Occupation Historian


Question: Where did Sanudo live? According to my knowledge, he "seat in front of his home at the sqaure" to note down every thing around him. Maybe we can make his living house as the entry point.

Sanudo's Diary

The Diaries of Marin Sanudo represent one of the most comprehensive daily records of events ever compiled by a single individual in early modern Europe. They offer insights into various aspects of Venetian life, from "diplomacy to public spectacles, politics to institutional practices, state councils to public opinion, mainland territories to overseas possessions, law enforcement to warfare, the city's landscape to the lives of its inhabitants, and from religious life to fashion, prices, weather, and entertainment".[2]

English selection & comment of Diary



Transforming Sanudo’s index (1496 - 1533)

Diary Background Information
Diary Duration 1496-1533 37
Quantity 58 Volumes around 40000 pages
Content Style deal with any matter regardless of its ‘importance’



"...the continuity of events and institutions collapses into the quotidian. ...Unreflecting, pedantic, and insatiable, he aimed "to seek out every occurrence, no matter how slight," for he believed that the truth of events could only be grasped through an abundance of facts. 18 He gathered those facts in the chancellery of the Ducal Palace and in the streets of the city, transcribing official legislation and ambassadorial dispatches, reporting popular opinion and Rialto gossip"[1] 

   BirdsEyeView1528.jpg


Project Timeline & Milestones

2024/10/10

  • Conducted background information research and clarified project goals.
  • Reviewed related articles, gaining insight into Sanudo's diary.
  • Goals:
    • Obtain diary text and extract place names.
    • Match person names with place names.
    • Link named entities to specific diary content.
  • Planned integration with the Venice interactive map frontend.

2024/11/14

  • Midterm presentation completed.
  • Summary:
    • Current Progress:
      • Data processing: Data obtaining, index extraction, column extraction
      • Filtering: Venice-name verification pipeline
    • Future Plan:
      • Handle data discrepancies
      • Extract people names associated with place entities
      • Embed information into a map
  • Next Steps:
    • Week 10: Extract people names associated with place entities
    • Week 11: Create GIS-compatible format for pipeline output
    • Week 12 (optional): Test integration with Venice front-end
    • Week 13 (optional): Add context for name-place pairing


Project Process

We identified three APIs which we could use to locate whether an entity exists in Venice or not. These were: Nominatim (OpenStreetMap), WikiData, and Geonames. We settled on Nominatim as the chief API, since it was the easiest to use and offered the most consistent results. Thus, we created a pipeline to extract place entities from the Sanudo's index and use the Nominatim API to search if the entity exists in Venice, and store the co-ordinates if so.

Results

Conclusion

Appendix

References

Frontend references:
https://pov-dev.up.railway.app/ (development version)
https://pov.up.railway.app/

Interactive(?) book:
https://valley.newamericanhistory.org/

Document references:
[1] Finlay, Robert. “Politics and History in the Diary of Marino Sanuto.” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 4, 1980, pp. 585–98. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2860688. Accessed 10 Oct. 2024.
[2]Image source: https://evolution.veniceprojectcenter.org/evolution.html
[3]Ferguson, Ronnie. “The Tax Return (1515) of Marin Sanudo: Fiscality, Family, and Language in Renaissance Venice.” Italian Studies 79, no. 2 (2024): 137–54. doi:10.1080/00751634.2024.2348379.

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