by Pratik Chakrabarti

1. Pratik Chakrabarti, UK medical heritage library event
Approaching the digital library from multiple viewpoints27/10/2017

2. The various forms of visualizations are:
• Timeline: Displays information on events, and
relates them to publications in the collection
• Dendrograms: A taxonomic tree
• Sunbursts: Pattern of irregular concentric
bands of colour
• Ngrams:

3. Timeline
• The timeline has the risk of appearing a bit
positivistic to the uninitiated reader, a
progressive view of the history of medicine,
particularly if this is geared towards
classroom teaching

4. • We are dealing with these more as medical
texts, than historical ones.
• Ideas of muscles, bodily organs and
epidemics were historically contingent.

5. https://ukmhl.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/results?t
erms=Egyptian%20science

6. Challenges
• In future, very few might read texts as printed
copies and will access them mostly through e
platforms.
• One option could be to build in a more nuanced
form visualization. For example, is it possible mix
the timeline with the physiological data?
• The pedagogical challenges: classroom teaching
will need to evolve around how to use online text
mining tools.