DH-CASE

In this paper, we describe Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS), a new set of tools for prosopography - the identification of individuals and study of their interactions - in support of humanities research. The BPS tools include 1) functionality to ...

Annotations played a major role in Classics since the very beginning of the discipline. Some of the first attested examples of philological work, the so-called scholia, were in fact marginalia, namely comments written at the margins of a text. Over the ...

We present PROSO, a reference model for the storage, use, publication and sharing of prosopographic records. PROSO is composed of three parts: a conceptual model, an XML serialization and a GRDDL transformation to RDF. The conceptual model is meant to ...

We present a study on the semantic representation of the knowledge embedded in the notes to Convivio, a philosophical essay composed by Dante Alighieri. The notes were produced by an Italian scholar in structured text format. First, we analyzed the ...

The aim of this project is to investigate different mappings of documents in humanities into ontologies, i.e. the mutual relations between these mappings: agreement, differences, disagreement. First, we are going to focus on possible sources of ...

Over centuries texts of all genres have been connected by quotes, allusions, idioms, stylistic imitations and many more. Understanding literature means understanding these kinds of intertextual relations. The goal of the Göttingen sub-project of eTRACES,...

The goal of this document is to present a fragmentary texts demo built under Perseids, a collaborative platform being developed by the Perseus Project that leverages and extends pre-existing open-source tools and services to support editing and ...

In this paper, we present an environment for collaborative annotation and knowledge creation which was created in the framework of a project on the Neogrammarians and their influence on Romance Linguistics. In this environment, which is made available ...

This paper presents and discusses an integrated project-specific working environment for editing TEI/XML files and linking entities of interest to a dedicated wiki system. This working environment has been specifically tailored to the workflow in our ...

This paper wants to explore quantitative and qualitative practices generally exploited in different scientific fields (philology, mathematics, quantitative linguistics, computer science) in order to reveal forgery. Our study will be conducted on Montale'...

There is still a gap between models for external annotations of markup documents and their applications. In this paper we present the EARMARK API, a Java framework that allows users to combine embedded markup with stand-off markup. We discuss a few ...

A relevant issue in the annotation of digital heritage is the abstraction of concepts in a cross--media context. This is true in the case of dramatic media (e.g., screenplay, performance, TV series, video-game, feature film), where the performance has ...

This article treats a digital humanities work in Classical Antiquity. The goal is to develop a Web information system for such a domain and, at the same time, to publish data according to Linked Open Data principles.

We have used the Bibliotheca Iuris ...

In this paper, we describe the architecture and collaborative approach adopted for the development of Senso Comune (SC), an open knowledge base for the Italian language that combines lexicographic, linguistic, ontological and textual data in a web-based ...

Sentiment Analysis is the task of automatically identifying whether a text or a single sentence is intended to carry a positive or negative connotation. The commonly used Bag-of-Words approach that relies on counting positive and negative words, whose ...

This paper discusses the application of Pundit, a novel semantic annotation tool, in the case study of Burckhardt's correspondence. In this context the occurrences of persons and places names as well as references to works of art in the letters are ...

@note is a rich-internet application for the collaborative annotation of digitized literary texts. It enables the collaborative definition of annotation activities by a community of annotation managers, as well as the collaborative accomplishment of ...

This paper presents the approaches to data and image annotations in ResearchSpace (http://www.researchspace.org), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project led by the British Museum aimed at supporting collaborative internet research, information ...