The European project BioVeL combines several biodiversity databases with the goal to implement and provide flexible user interfaces for biologists for their research on biodiversity issues. In this context GeoTemCo is integrated into a complex workflow process as one of the major visual interfaces for researchers. Biologists select a list of specific species and initialize GeoTemCo with observation entries of different time periods used as different datasets. GeoTemCo's exploration and filtering abilities expedite the detection of geospatially migrating species over time.

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Within the DARIAH project, the so called GeoBrowser provides analyzation capabilities for humanists dealing with geospatial-temporal data. The GeoBrowser is an extended version of GeoTemCo that offers additional features (e.g. dataset export) of its previous version europeana4D. With the DARIAH Datasheet Editor, data sets can be edited individually and then visualized using the GeoBrowser.

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<< Visit DARIAH GeoBrowser

Within the project "Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek", GeoTemCo is used to visualize the geospatial distribution of all collaborating institutions. This adaption arose in the context of a collaboration between Leipzig University and Fraunhofer IAIS.

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Humanities scholars within the eAQUA project use a first version of GeoTemCo called Mental Maps to explore the geographic distribution and propagation of words extracted from ancient Greek texts. The visualization uses the metadata for 1.800 authors who lived in the period from 800BC to 1600AD in the eastern Mediterranean. GeoTemCo allows for filtering word occurences by time and is used as a hub to generate cooccurence graphs. This allows the comparision of words in space, time and topical context.

EmotionsRadar is a software to analyze the sentiments of web users about specific brands. It uses big data technologies developed by Fraunhofer IAIS within various other research projects. To support browsing through the results, a broad palette of visualizations is provided. In this context, GeoTemCo is used to display and compare the temporal and geospatial distribution of different sentiment classes (e.g. joy vs. anger).

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The first release of GeoTemCo as europeana4D works with the online digital catalogue of Europeana. It contains over 15 million entries (images, texts, sounds, videos), which are digitized resources of Europe’s libraries, museums, and archives. The data items have geospatial (e.g., publication place) and temporal (e.g., publication year) metadata and can be visualized and explored.

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"The map was a test produced on Feb 15th 2014 from synthetic data in the context of an ongoing development of a data integration and cartographic tool for the Euroscientia project. This work is funded by the French and German research agencies (ANR and DFG). The Euroscientia project is directed by Christine Lebeau (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Lothar Schilling (University of Augsburg) and Jakob Vogel (Sciences Po Paris, University of Cologen). The conceiver and developer of the tool is Carmen Brando (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)." (Carmen Brando, Euroscientia)

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"Inspired by GeoTemCo, I had the idea to create a new data mashup: A timeline in combination with a map to get an overview where and when which Frisbee team was founded. The OpenSource JavaScript web-application GeoTemCo offers such possiblities and even a possiblity for data comparison." (Martin, FFindr.com)

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The online edition Heyne Digital provides digital copies and transcriptions of lecture notes taken from lectures given by Christian Gottlob Heyne. The user has the ability to dynamically search for persons, places, literature and artifacts. GeoTemCo is utilized to visualize the geospatial distribution of places mentioned in Heyne's lectures.

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A collaboration between the Leipzig University, the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the ETH Zürich aims to investigate methods to properly visualize data with uncertain temporal (e.g. "around 1450") and/or uncertain geospatial (e.g. "near Sevilla") metadata. The GeoTemCo map is used to show the geospatial distribution, and the ThemeRiver is modified for the purpose of displaying the temporal information.

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