Space Time and Ties : Cinema History as an Interactive Web of
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Space Time and Ties : Cinema History as an Interactive Web of Knowledge

PORUBČANSKÁ, Terézia a Pavel SKOPAL

Základní údaje

Originální název

Space Time and Ties : Cinema History as an Interactive Web of Knowledge

Autoři

PORUBČANSKÁ, Terézia a Pavel SKOPAL

Vydání

NECS conference 2025, Lisabon, Španělsko, 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60405 Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Network visualisation; Zlín; film culture; film production; database

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 18. 2. 2026 12:29, Mgr. Ester Gaja Pučálková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Zlínský Film is a collective project reconstructing the history of a film studio, film festival, and film production in Zlín located in former Czechoslovakia. The project’s ambition was to present the history of filmmaking and film culture in a non-hierarchical way. Its goal was to offer researchers a large dataset and tools for its exploration, while also creating an engaging platform for lay users to interact with history through specific data displays. The main inspiration for constructing a database that would be capable to support online visualizations was Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) and its "flat" ontology, treating both human and non-human actors as equal nodes in a complex network. This presentation aims at exploring the most important issues and benefits of database creation, data visualization and knowledge dissemination to the general public. Over the course of the project's development, we encountered issues related to the technological and structural aspects of building and designing the structure and visualizations, such as issues related to data collection, data storage, analysis, and interactive visualization. On the other hand, there were conceptual issues that do not have a universally valid answer and need to be revisited with each new project: what kind of data are we able collect and present? What kind (and amount) of ties can we (re)construct between the data? How far is it necessary – and beneficial – to structure and filter the available data? The final visual product of the project is an online platform with interactive map, multi-layered thematic timeline and multipartite searchable network that provides a decentralized perspective on the dense web of ties untangled around film production-, distribution-, or exhibition-related agency. Thanks to sophisticated filtering, it meets the high demands for detailed data of professional researchers while providing a visually appealing form of learning about history for non-academic audiences.

Návaznosti

TL03000103, projekt VaV

Název: Relační databáze, mapové projekce a vizualizace dat pro účely propagace, vzdělávání a podpory turismu - realizace na příkladu zlínské filmové kultury (Akronym: Redazlín)

Investor: Technologická agentura ČR, Relační databáze, mapové projekce a vizualizace dat pro účely propagace, vzdělávání a podpory turismu - realizace na příkladu zlínské filmové kultury

Citovat

PORUBČANSKÁ, Terézia a Pavel SKOPAL. Space Time and Ties : Cinema History as an Interactive Web of Knowledge. In NECS conference 2025, Lisabon, Španělsko. 2025.

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PORUBČANSKÁ, Terézia a Pavel SKOPAL. Space Time and Ties : Cinema History as an Interactive Web of Knowledge. In \textit{NECS conference 2025, Lisabon, Španělsko}. 2025.

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