Abstract

Within the last few decades, TEI has become a major instrument for philologists in the digital age, particularly since a set of mechanisms has recently been incorporated which facilitates the encoding of genetic editions. Editors use the XML syntax while aiming to preserve the quantity and quality of old books and manuscripts and publish many more of them online, mostly under free licenses. Scholars all over the world are now able to use huge datasets for further research. There are now many digital editions available, but only a few tools to analyze them. This article explores how web technologies (XML and related technologies as well as JavaScript) can be used to enrich the forthcoming edition of Theodor Fontane’s notebooks with data-driven visualizations of named entities and how at the same time applications can be built on these visualizations which are reusable for other edition projects in the TEI world. Because of the density and historical scope of references to named entities and the variety of entity types, Fontane’s notebooks lend themselves to advanced methods of semantic analysis.

Highlights

  • 10 The semantic analysis methods described here should not be confused with Linked Data processing (Berners-Lee 2006), which relies on explicitly quali ed relations between entities

  • The additional e ort required to make them work with the TEI data from the forthcoming edition of Theodor Fontane’s notebooks was minimal

  • With the philosophy of open source and sharing ideas in mind, we provide all our scripts as well as interactive examples at http://fontane-nb.dariah.eu/tei-conf/

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Project Overview

Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, Issue 8, 09/06/2015 Selected Papers from the 2013 TEI Conference less than 10,000 pages with writing on them. The project is titled Genetic-Critical and Annotated Hybrid-Edition of Theodor Fontane’s Notebooks Based on a Virtual Research Environment.. The work ow has been set up as follows: the philologists survey the material, determine the editorial concept and principles, transcribe the notebooks, and encode them in TEI according to a TEI P5 subset scheme based on the elements for genetic editions (e.g., and ) speci ed by the metadata specialist. This TEI code is XSL-transformed into HTML and integrated into the project’s website by the IT specialist. Some notes in C07 refer to a book about Thuringia that Fontane planned to write, but apparently never did (Wüsten 1973)

Encoding References to Entities in Theodor Fontane’s
Semantic Analysis
Timeline
Geospatial-Temporal Data Aggregation
Network Analysis
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