In this post I will go over the Kindred Britain. I will talk about the use of digital humanities in Kindred. The kindred Britain was created by Stanford University. It was created to help us connect many of the iconic figures in the British culture through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation.
The primary focus of this use of digital humanities is connecting people in a visual way. The individuals are “connected through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation”. When two people are matched together a data graph will trace the connections and ties of the two people.
The visual diagram contains a bunch of circles that you can click on and then the name of an iconic British person will appear. You then can drag any two circles together and distinguish a connection between the two random people you chose.
On the top of the webpage there are tabs that include: “people”, “connections” and “stories” . When you click on each of the three different tabs you are able to discover the iconic figures professions, you are able to see how two random people are connected to one another and lastly you are able to read about interesting stories that are shared.
Personally, I think that the Kindred Britain project does a great job of connecting iconic British figures in a visual way. It is a very easy website to navigate on and it is fun to explore. It breaks down a lot of research into an easy comprehensive way.