ANT is a library designed to enable humanities scholars to create interactive, dynamic network visualizations with no coding or database expertise.
For a demo, see https://www.artisticnetworktoolkit.org/.
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To create a new website based on ANT using your own artistic dataset, please follow the steps below:
- Copy the Ant Template Google Sheet to your Google Drive (
File->Make a Copy) - Follow the instructions in the Template to populate a relational database.
- Create a link to your sheet that is viewable, but not editable, by anyone (
Share->Anyone on the internet with the link can view) - Click this button
to copy the ANT code to a new Heroku server that will host your website. You'll need to create a Heroku account if you don't have one already.
- NB: ANT is configured for the cheapest tier of Heroku server, which is $5/month.
- Give the app any name that you like. The other fields can remain as their defaults. Click "Deploy app" to create the website.
- After Heroku has finished deploying the site (~5 minutes), you can now access it at the website specified by heroku, which will be in the format: https://ant-demo-xxxxxx.herokuapp.com/ .
- Click on the "Configure" button.
- Paste in the link to your Google Sheet (See step #3 above).
- The data will be imported from the sheet into a PostgreSQL database on Heroku. Any warnings or errors will be printed to the screen.
- Your site is ready!
This project is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities under Digital Humanities Advancement Grant #HAA-296281-24, by Tulane University's Newcomb Institute, and by Tulane's Lavin Bernick Grant program.
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