Network

Controls

• compute all builds the multi-agent system from every composer of the database who has at least one archived work — about half of the people recorded in the minutes entered the competition without a recording joining the collection, and an agent with nothing to show has nothing to open; compute traces builds it only from the composers you have consulted in Overview (your navigation path)
• both buttons can be clicked at any time to restart the simulation
• pause (or the space bar) freezes the system; the p key toggles the agents' drift

Agents

• a composer, still looking for others sharing a common property
• a grouping of composers — click it to open it
• an opened grouping, showing its members — double-click it to close it
• a composer inside an opened grouping — click it to see how many archived works they have; click that count to unfold the list, click it again to fold it back
• a box appears under the orange one only for composers who have an ISNI, and its header is that identifier. Click the header to unfold the international identity record — name forms, dates, external links (VIAF, Wikidata, MusicBrainz…) and contributing databases. Nothing is requested until you unfold it, and a record already opened once is kept for the session. Selecting another composer replaces it; selecting one without an ISNI removes it

Grouping

• agents compare their properties as they move; when a shared property (such as country) has been exchanged often enough, its name appears in the white panel of the top bar
• click that property name to let the agents regroup around it
• the green box reports the number of nodes while the system grows, then details whatever you click on the canvas