DIANE is set up as a flexible database that can host a range of research projects. Researchers can start a project and make use of the basic architecture with the categories Persons, Associations, Events and Places and descriptors (such as name, gender, nationality etc.), which they can tailor to their specific research questions. Or they can create new categories, such as Referendums. They are able to invite other researchers to work or see their database, and manage access to the material. DIANE is also a relational database, designed to connect the entered information. A political event, for example, can be linked to the persons who attended the event, the iconic building it took place in and to the associations that organized it

DIANE allows historians to work together across national and institutional boundaries. The research environment harbours several research projects on particular themes within the study of nationalism and national/regional movements. Researchers can set up collaborative or individual projects, insert information on persons, movements or events and immediately visualise the data on timelines, geographical maps and social network graphs.

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