Africa Multiple Interactive Research Atlas (AMIRA)
AMIRA turns the research metadata of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence into something you can explore. Based at the University of Bayreuth, the Cluster works with Africa Multiple Research Centres across Africa, Brazil, and Germany to reconfigure African Studies. Trace how researchers collaborate across partner institutions, follow a subject through decades and countries, or surface items whose content clusters together even when no shared tag connects them.
The Cluster's knowledge-base front end offers limited options for visual exploration. This dashboard makes the underlying data browsable, filterable, and comparable through interactive charts, maps, and network graphs. Every entity is cross-linked: click a person, project, subject, or location badge to open its detail page.
What you can explore
- Who: Researchers, groups, and institutions — linked through their projects and co-authored items
- Where: Research items mapped by country, region, and city, with side-by-side comparison across universities
- When: Project timelines across the Cluster's thematic sections
- What: Faceted search on subject, language, resource type, and tag
- Collections: Photo and multimedia showcases viewable as a masonry grid, a clustered map, or a zoomable timeline
- Connections: Per-item knowledge graphs show how a record connects to others; weighted network graphs reveal co-authorship, institutional ties, and the discursive communities that cut across the archive
Interface
Dark mode, URL-shareable filter state, and a PNG export button on every chart.