Publicat – Metadata Visualization for Periodical Research

Hey, community! I’m Georgii, creator of Publicat – a platform helping scholars visualize and structure periodical metadata. Born from my own research needs as a PhD student at Stanford, Publicat transforms how researchers navigate complex publication networks and historical archives.

What started as a personal tool has grown into an open-source project used by digital humanities scholars and libraries. We’re making periodical data accessible and meaningful, whether you’re mapping editorial networks, analyzing publishing patterns across time, or exploring connections between publications and authors.

Now as part of the Vercel OSS Spring 2025 Cohort, we’re scaling our infrastructure to handle larger datasets and building new visualization tools for cross-periodical analysis. Based in San Francisco, deeply invested in making academic research infrastructure better.

Check us out, contribute on GitHub, or reach out if you’re working with data in the Humanities – would love to hear what you’re building!

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Publicat sounds like a really valuable tool for the digital humanities community. It’s great to see how you’ve turned a personal research need into something that’s helping scholars and libraries work with periodical metadata more effectively.

Thanks for being part of our community :slight_smile:

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