The goal of the NORA project was to produce software for discovering, visualizing, and exploring significant patterns across large collections of full-text humanities resources in existing digital libraries.

The kernel browser provides a number of blank kernels that can be configured by the user through a data mining “training” process, then be applied to the larger collection. This sketch shows a total collection of 5000 author names, with a subset selected by the kernel.

Presented at the 2006 Digital Humanities International Conference in Victoria, BC; The Sorbonne, Centre Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information, Paris, 2006; and others.