Alan Liu

URL: http://rose.english.ucsb.edu [currently requires login]
Role: Project Lead.

Created in its first stage as an outcome of the Transliteracies Project, RoSE is now in a second stage of development under a NEH Digital Humanities Start-up Grant (Level II). RoSE is a Web-based knowledge-exploration system that fuses a social-computing model to humanities bibliographical resources to allow users to explore the present and past of the human record as one “social network.” Stocked with initial information data-mined from YAGO and Project Gutenberg (with plans for data-mining the SNAC Project), RoSE provides profile pages about persons and documents, keywords and other data, and visualizations that help users see the relationships between people and documents. Uniquely, it also allows users (humanities students, scholars, and research groups) to add “thickly described” metadata on top of standard bibliographical data. This facilitates a social-network-like sense of active, dynamic interrelation with the objects of research.

• RoSE site (currently requires permissions to login)
• Press Release on RoSE, 11 January 2012, UCSB Office of Public Affairs Press (includes video interview with Alan Liu)