Sanudo's Diary

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Transforming Sanudo’s index (1496 - 1533)

Database: <The Diaries of Marino Sanudo>

Diary Background Information

Attributes	Data
Diary Duration	1496-1533	37
Quantity	58 Volumes	around 40000 pages
Content Style

"...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]

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Sanudo's background Information

Attributes	Data
Status	aristocrat
Occupation	Historian

Goal: Present the named entities in diary in an interactive way, e.g. map-based website. georeference the useful name entities with Venice places.


Team Journal:
- 2024/10/10:

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.

- 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.

Reference:
[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