A New Way to Explore Historical Sources
Explore a database of over 19K deliberations of the Venice Senate from the XIVth century archival series Senato-Deliberazioni-Misti using novel search tools that visualise the temporal and spatial distributions of historical data together with their semantic correlations.
VLD Series Viewer 
and Search 
VLD Series Viewer and VLD Series Search are tools that exploit the unique temporal continuity and consistency of the Senato-Deliberazioni-Misti archival series to represent the time evolution of queries and to construct dynamical chronologies.
Compare queries on regesti and full text to overcome the language barrier and access all deliberations that match your query with original sources just one click away.
VLD Map Search 
VLD Map Search is a tool that maps the spatial distribution of queries and that allows direct access to all geographically related deliberations.
VLD Semantic Search 
VLD Semantic Search is a tool based on semantic clustering: each archival unity is broken down into documental unities and rendered as an interactive dendrogram. Clusters of deliberations matching a query are highlighted and directly accesible.
Get started
Register and download the VLD Search applets (running under Mathematica 12 or later versions).
Venice Long Data
Venice Long Data (VLD) is an interdisciplinary research project that investigates historical archives from an integrated point of view - relying, in the Venetian context, on the historical database offered by the State Archive of Venice (ASVe) - and using techniques from Big Data to Complex Networks. The approach aims to study history from a MACRO perspective, complementary to the MICRO perspective usually conducted, always starting from the original sources and using the most modern techniques available to deal with the transcription and analysis of historical sources. The dual scope is to obtain a historical meta-database representing a fully searchable interconnected digital version of the ASVe and, above all, to create the basis for a quantitative study of the history of Venice, Europe and the Mediterranean.
The VLD Team
Alessandro Codello, Damiano Sgarbossa, Sinem Aslan,
Raffaele Santoro, Chiara Casarin, Renata Codello,
Andrea Rinaldo, Raffaella Burioni and Guido Caldarelli
