We’ve just opened access to a test drive of the site at www.phylosophy.net. At present, you can search for individuals and institutions within the database, and explore connections between them using links. The most recent degrees and appointments from our core set of schools are included, as well as advisors. For a good, complete sample, [...]
Archive: 'Development'
Beta site launch
05Oct08Flex and Google Maps
29Nov07We’ve tentatively chosen two applications to run our visualizations: Adobe Flex, which would handle netMap and chronoMap, and Google Maps, which would run geoMap (probably with a Flex overlay).
The choice for netMap and chronoMap was a tough one. There are few nice, open source tools out there, including prefuse, Simile Timeline, and Simile Exhibit. All [...]
drupal implementation
20Nov07Phylo will run on drupal, an open source content management system (CMS). After a few months of development, we’ve realized the need for several things:
a robust tracking system that can record additions and changes, including user information and comments on why changes are being made,
a secure sign-in area for user information,
a search engine with advanced capabilities, [...]
Phylo and InPhO
24Oct07At NA-CAP 2007, we were introduced to The Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project (InPhO), which is developing a dynamic formal ontology for philosophy. A main focus of the project is developing a way to handle metadata for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). As many of you know, the current SEP entries are searchable and listed [...]
We’ve just added lots of search functionality to Phylo. In the display results for any person, you’ll also find links to Worldcat.org, Google Scholar, and Google, which will provide one-click search results on the person you’re interested in. (In time, we’d like to do the same for publications, also providing access to Google Books.)
One of [...]
Data on women in philosophy
20Sep07Sally Haslanger’s “Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)” has been circulating around several blogs and listservs lately. The article, which is slated to come out in Hypatia next year, reviews the situation for women in current academic philosophy. Haslanger includes statistics on the top 20 departments as well as leading [...]
Display plans
04Aug07When we started this project, we conceived of three displays:
an individuals display, which would identify personal influences on a particular
individual, including their relationships with their teachers, graduate school peers, colleagues at appointed institutions, and dissertation advisees and committee members.
an institutional display, which would show which philosophers worked and studied at a particular institution throughout the [...]
