The IISH is hosting a workshop ‘Introduction to Nodegoat’ on Friday the 20th of March. The workshop offers an introduction to Nodegoat (nodegoat.net), a web-based research environment for the humanities, and is given by its developers, Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels.
Nodegoat allows users to create their own data models for persons, places, events, or artefacts, including their relationships as well as temporal and spatial information. Data can be entered, organised, and imported from existing datasets. The platform provides analysis and visualisation tools such as network analysis, spatial and chronological representations, queries, and filters. Sources can be linked, and data can be exported or published. Nodegoat is particularly suitable for projects on historical relationships, prosopography, or movements across time and space.
The workshop will be held in English and is open to everyone, but is particularly interesting for those who already have a basic understanding of social network theory and are aiming to incorporate social network analysis in their research.
Practical
Date 20 March 2026
Time Walk-in from 13:45; workshop starts at 14:00
Number of participants: Max. 30 participants
Location IISG, Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam
Registration Free but registration is required. Registration is via email: [email protected] or [email protected]. Registrations are processed on a first come, first served basis.
Programme
14:00 Introduction to nodegoat
15:00 Who are you and what is your research question?
15:15 Learn how to enter geographical data into nodegoat
15:45 Break
16:00 Learn how to enter relational data into nodegoat
16:30 Learn how to conceptualise a data model
16:45 Q&A
17:00 End of workshop