Mark Hedges ; Anna Jordanous ; K. Faith Lawrence ; Charlotte Roueché ; Charlotte Tupman - Computer - Assisted Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages

jdmdh:1375 - Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, September 7, 2017, Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages - https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.1375
Computer - Assisted Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient LanguagesArticle

Authors: Mark Hedges 1; Anna Jordanous 2; K. Faith Lawrence 1; Charlotte Roueché ORCID1; Charlotte Tupman 3

The production of digital critical editions of texts using TEI is now a widely-adopted procedure within digital humanities. The work described in this paper extends this approach to the publication of gnomologia (anthologies of wise sayings) , which formed a widespread literary genre in many cultures of the medieval Mediterranean. These texts are challenging because they were rarely copied straightforwardly ; rather , sayings were selected , reorganised , modified or re-attributed between manuscripts , resulting in a highly interconnected corpus for which a standard approach to digital publication is insufficient. Focusing on Greek and Arabic collections , we address this challenge using semantic web techniques to create an ecosystem of texts , relationships and annotations , and consider a new model – organic , collaborative , interconnected , and open-ended – of what constitutes an edition. This semantic web-based approach allows scholars to add their own materials and annotations to the network of information and to explore the conceptual networks that arise from these interconnected sayings .


Volume: Special Issue on Computer-Aided Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages
Section: Project presentations
Published on: September 7, 2017
Accepted on: September 5, 2017
Submitted on: September 5, 2017
Keywords: TEI,gnomologia,RDF,manuscripts,ontology,linked data,semantic web,digital edition,anthologies,[SHS.CLASS] Humanities and Social Sciences/Classical studies,[SHS.INFO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences

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