DraCor Dashboards

[ingoboerner]

In CLS INFRA for Deliverable D.3.3 (see section "Detecting Small Worlds in a Corpus of Thousands of Theater Plays", pp.21-26) we developed a showcase that features a "Dashboard" to explore the data produced for the Small-World paper. @hsluytergaethje implemented the Dashboard using the python package Panel: https://github.com/dracor-org/small-world-paper/tree/visualisation

We (@peertrilcke, me) think that interactive dashboards would be a valuable addition to the DraCor ecosystem. Maybe we could setup a dedicated DraCor Panel server at https://dashboards.dracor.org to which we could add additional dashboards interactively exploring DraCor data or the results of DraCor-based studies.

The CLS INFRA showcase is currently deployed on the CLS INFRA server, but we already used Docker to create a running Panel environment which could probably be adapted for DraCor as well. The Dockerfile and the compose.yml file are here: https://github.com/dracor-org/dracor-dashboards/tree/small-world-docker

A first step could be to also deploy Henny's dashboard on DraCor as a first showcase and maybe adapt the panel homepage a bit to match the overall DraCor design.

There is obviously an overlap with the DraCor frontend and tools like ShinyDraCor, but we would think that DraCor dashboards could evolve into a space where people not directly involved in the DraCor system development, but are more on the research side, contribute to.