Project History
Nadir Weber, Jan Haugner and Debora Heim presented their preliminary results after a year of research at the “Forschungskolloquium” at the University of Lucerne.
We are happy to announce that Debora Heim published an article in the magazine “Rassegna storica del Risorgimento” about her part of the project “Producing Public Secrets: Secret Councils in the Swiss Republics“.
Debora Heim, Segreti repubblicani. I consigli segreti nell’antica Confederazione svizzera (XVI-XVIII secolo), Rassegna storica del Risorimento, Anno CXIX Fascicolo 1, 2022, p. 95-96.
In an effort to study the archival practices of the past, the team visited the “Rathaus” in Lucerne.
For more information about the “Rathaus” visit their website. You can also go on a virtual tour through the building.
In connection with a student project of the Master’s program “Applied Information and Data Science” at the “Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts” (HSLU) a collaboration was established between the Republican Secrets Team and three Students from the HSLU. The idea behind the cooperation was to build something that would enable the Republican Secrets Team to visualize personal interconnections between secret councils.
The Project required the students Remo Kälin, Keith Lawless, and Jorit Studer to build a Data Warehouse and a Data Lake System. They extracted Datapoints from Textfiles of the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS) and made a network analysis. Then they visualized the data with Tabloid. During the project, the students were advised by the Republican Secrets Team on the handling of historical data, their differences, and particularities in comparison with modern data. Today the Republican Secrets Team has access to their visualization, Data Warehouse, and Data Lake System at the GitHub repository.
Shortly after the Start of the Project «Republican Secrets» on a cloudy day in September, the Team visited the «Wasserturm», a historical Tower which was built in the 13th century and is today one of the most cherished tourist attractions of Lucern.
For more information about the visit, please read the Article «Dem Umgang mit Staatsgeheimnissen auf der Spur» from Anna Chudozilov.
The University of Lucerne announces the start of the Project “Republican Secrets”.
Nadir Weber brings “Eccellenza” Project to the University of Lucerne. For more information click on the announcement.