What is DIANE?

DIANE (an acronym for Digital Infrastructure for the Analysis of National movements in Europe) is a virtual research environment for the collaborative study of national and regional movements in Europe, developed by the international network NISE. It is a web-based data management, network analysis and visualization tool for historical research. In DIANE, researchers can set up individual and collaborative projects, in which they can enter, connect, analyse and visualize their research data.

“DIANE, a tree with many branches”

What are the functions of DIANE?

DIANE has 3 principal functions:

Firstly, DIANE will function as an analytical instrument, built to host individual and collaborative research projects that explore and visualise transnational connections between movements, persons and ideas.

Secondly, it will also grow into a heuristic instrument, helping researchers to identify publications, other researchers with similar interests and relevant (and often less well-known) archives and/or heritage institutions all over Europe

Thirdly, DIANE will feature as an information database on national and regional movements in Europe, that collects data, and connects information on the functioning of national movements and their protagonists.