OldVis Gallery

A web-based gallery of historical visualizations (live demo).

The gallery uses the dataset from oldvis_dataset.

Search Features

• Freeform search across multiple metadata fields (e.g., Playfair)
• Field-specific exact search using the <field>:(<value>) syntax (e.g., authors:(Playfair, William))
• AI-powered image semantic search using the image:(<description>) syntax (e.g., image:(bar chart))
• Multi-criteria queries combining search types with the & operator
• Embed query parameters in URLs for sharing (e.g., https://oldvis.github.io/gallery/?authors:(Neurath,+Otto))

See ./docs/SEARCH_FEATURES.md for more details.

Development Instructions

1. Run pnpm install to install dependencies (make sure you have Node.js and pnpm installed beforehand).
2. Run pnpm run dev to launch the development server.

This repository is initialized with the vitesse-lite template.

Reference

If you use this gallery in a scientific publication, we would appreciate it if you cite the following paper:

@Article{Zhang2023OldVisOnline,
  author    = {Zhang, Yu and Jiang, Ruike and Xie, Liwenhan and Zhao, Yuheng and Liu, Can and Ding, Tianhong and Chen, Siming and Yuan, Xiaoru},
  title     = {{OldVisOnline}: Curating a Dataset of Historical Visualizations},
  doi       = {10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326908},
  volume    = {30},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {551--561},
  journal   = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year      = {2023},
}