To Do

1. Complete and submit DHF abstract
2. Write algorithms and implement temporal sets
   • Marriages are perfect examples, see May 9 meeting
3. Build table structure for extended marriages (tribes?) so we don’t have to build them on the fly from the DB every time.

4. Build the database and scripts to import Jill’s data

5. Directed graph viz with a person, the marriages they are linked to (adoption, birth, marriage)
6. Add levels of separation to sankey (0 is just the marriage requested, 1 would be their parents’ marriages and children’s marriages, etc)

Discussion on Abstract

We want to depict the CS side, with strong Humanities application

• Lead with temporal nature of the data/work
  • Temporal: metronome axis (time in min/sec/etc) vs action/change oriented (time as series of events)
• Evolving structures : marriages evolve
  • Within marriage
    • changes at events such as new wife, child born, wife dies, etc
    • It’s still the same item! It changes while maintaining its identity
  • Observe how networks/communities evolve
  • Identity: Objects have identities, even though they are evolving structures
    • Marriages have an identity that stays the same, even though participants come and go
    • People (marriage-to-marriage) have identities. People constitute these things (marriages, groups)
    • The entire network has some identity. “Process that’s happening”
    • Church organizations (AQ, Q12,…) have identities, but change over time
      • Merging organizations, splitting organizations, relations between them (people they share). Can also think of this in a corporate sense, such as the previous circus example.
    • Tribes: Marriages come and go from the tribe, but collections of marriages also have an identity

These are networks of objects that are morphing/evolving/temporal! We need to get this across, and fully embrace it.