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PILNAR Data

Erica Renckens — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:41:44 +0000

PILNAR: Pilgrimage Narratives - a corpus for studying the profile of the modern pilgrim

Summary

A corpus of pilgrimage narratives with Dutch texts written after ca. 2000 that present the thoughts and impressions of pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. The PILNAR corpus is a source for research for a variety of (sub)disciplines: culture studies, ritual and religious studies, but also media and e-culture studies (cf the use of blogs and other social media for the self-presentation of experiences). Only for authorized users.

Background

The PILNAR corpus contains six subcorpora:

Volumes of De Jacobsstaf 1986-: 84 pdf files
Volumes of De Pelgrim of the Flemish Society of Santiago de Compostella nos. 1-4 (16mb, 10mb, 16mb) (both societies work collaborate closely)
Volumes of Ultreia, a newsletter; 3 issues available now: January, February, April 2011
Pilgrimage accounts and blogs by pilgrims available via the Societies Netherlands: circa 140 files; Flemish: circa 138 files
A corpus of pilgrimage narratives compiled on the occasion of the exhibition in Museum Catharijneconvent held in collaboration with the Society: www.pelgrimsverhalen.nl; already on the site now: about 180 fields (as of July 2011).
Accounts and narratives that come in after a specially targeted notice via the site and periodical by the Society (De Jacobsstaf), with perhaps a Flemish companion piece (De Pelgrim).

Contacts

Project leader:  Prof.dr. Paul Post (Tilburg University)
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute
Help contact: Judith Tonnaer-Souverijn - J.N.Tonnaer@uvt.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://yago.meertens.knaw.nl/apache/pilnar_web/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: http://dev.clarin.nl/sites/default/files/manualPILNAR.pdf
Tool/Service link: http://yago.meertens.knaw.nl/apache/pilnar_workspace/
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?fq=collection:Meertens+collections:+...
data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?fq=collection:Meertens+collection:+P...
Publications: n.a.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Meertens/HuC

Language

Dutch

Research domain

Religion Studies

Cultural Sciences

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

mono-lingual

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

No Linguistic Annotation

Format

Textual data

Plain text

PDF

CKCC Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:25:36 +0000

CKCC - Scholarly Letters

Summary

The CKCC service is build around a corpus of 20.000 letters of scholars who lived in the 17th-century Dutch Republic. Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-century Dutch Republic (CKCC) investigates the circulation of knowledge in the 17th-century Dutch Republic. A multi-disciplinary project team consisting of historians, literature researchers, linguists and computer scientists works together in this project and created a web-based Humanities’ Collaboratory on Correspondences. This project, is carried out thanks to a NWO Medium investment subsidy and with CLARIN subsidies to make the resources available withing the CLARIN domain.

Background

A consortium of Dutch universities and cultural heritage institutions is building a web-based collaboratory (an online space for asynchronous collaboration) around a corpus of 20.000 letters of scholars who lived in the 17th-century Dutch Republic to answer the research question: how did knowledge circulate in the 17th century? Hereto, it will be necessary to analyze this large amount of correspondence systematically. CKCC is a content processing workflow that consists of iterative cycles of conceptual analysis, enrichment with several layers of annotation and visualization, based on this (extendable) corpus. With advice from CLARIN-EU in the first stage of the project a demonstrator was developed which implements techniques of keyword extraction. The second stage consists of evaluating existing more complex tools en techniques that can tackle one or more aspects of the targeted grammatical, content-related, and network complexity analysis, annotation, and visualization. The phase shall identify a set of tools that can be readily utilized in CKCC, as well as tools that need to be adapted or extended to the needs of CKCC; in short, by the end of this phase resources, requirements and risks shall become clear.

Contacts

Project leader: prof. dr. W.W.Mijnhardt (Universiteit Utrecht, Descartes Institute)  
CLARIN center: Huygens ING
Help contact : ckcc@huygens.knaw.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): http://vimeo.com/48151361
Manual: http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/?page_id=899
Tool/Service link: (ePistolarium) http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/epistolarium/
Data link:
- In VLO: http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?2&fq=collection:CKCC
- In EASY DANS: https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:55049 (pi: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-scpm-ji)
Publications:
- D. Roorda, C. van den Heuvel, Annotation as a New Paradigm in Research Archiving. Two Case studies: Republic of letters- Hebrew Text Database. ASIST 75th Anniversary Conference, Baltimore 28-30 October 2012
- Wittek, P. and Ravenek, W. (2011), “Supporting the Exploration of a Corpus of 17th-Century Scholarly Correspondences by Topic Modeling”. In: B. Maegaard (Ed.), Supporting Digital Humanities 2011: Answering the unaskable. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Language

French

Dutch

English

German

Multiple languages

Research domain

Cultural Sciences

History

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

service

web-application

Annotations

Linguistic Annotation

No Linguistic Annotation

Format

Textual data

CSV

XML

TEI

DSS Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:01:57 +0000

DSS: Dutch Ships and Sailors

Summary

A tool chain and methodology for converting legacy datasets in the area of maritime history. Set up to facilitate over 25 data sets, the initial population consists of 4 selected maritime-historical datasets.

Background

The maritime industry has been central to regional and global economic, social and cultural exchange. It is also one of the best historically documented sectors of human activity. Many aspects of it have been recorded by shipping companies, governments, newspapers and other institutions. In the past few decades, much of the data in the preserved historical source material has been digitized. Among the most interesting data are those on shipping movement and crew members. The Dutch Republic in the 17th and 18th centuries had to rely to a large extent on immigration to man its fleet. Especially in Asian waters, it also relied on Asian crews.

Often information that deals with the same shipping movements and crew composition is spread over several historical sources and hence over several databases. The data often refers to the same ‘places’, ‘ships’, ‘persons’ and ‘events’. By linking the different available databases, the data complements and amplifies each other, and new research possibilities open up. Ideally, we would want to follow a ship from port to port, and crew members pursuing their careers from ship to ship.

The Dutch Ships and Sailors project provides a tool chain and methodology for converting legacy datasets. The infrastructure includes common vocabularies to normalize and enrich existing data. Links are established between the datasets and to other relevant datasets. In doing so, Dutch Ships and Sailors builds a (semantic) web-based structure that aims to function as a future platform and infrastructure for maritime historical datasets. Initially, this portal contains the following datasets:

Historische Kranten of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek;
The Monsterrollen databases contains elaborate data on the crew composition of ships from the Northern Netherlands (c. 1800-1930) and provides information on the sailors involved, such as the places of origin, wage and age;
The databases VOC Opvarenden, providing extensive data on crews of VOC ships leaving the Republic;
The database Dutch-Asiatic Shipping, providing data on all inter-continental voyages of VOC ships;
The database Generale Zeemonsterrollen, providing data on the crew composition and sometimes location of VOC ships stationed in Asia and not engaged in inter-continental shipping.

Contacts

Project leader: Prof. dr. Lex Heerma van Voss (VU University)  
CLARIN center: Huygens ING
Help contact : v.de.boer@vu.nl (coordinator)

Links

Web-sites: http://dutchshipsandsailors.nl/
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): n.a.
Manual: n.a.
Tool/Service link: http://dutchshipsandsailors.nl/?page_id=50
Data link: http://dutchshipsandsailors.nl/?page_id=11
- The Monsterrollen databases: http://www.noordelijkscheepvaartmuseum.nl/nl/collectie-en-onderzoek/onde... Data: 77.043 records (34.552 sailors; 4.935 ships) (expanded with further research as part of the Dutch Ships and Sailors-project)
- The databases VOC Opvarenden: http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/ Persistent Identifier: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-pul9-xg (versie 6, januari 2012) Data: > 655.000 persons
- The database Dutch-Asiatic Shipping: http://www.historici.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/DAS/ Persistent Identifier: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-yng-6vb Data: 8.100 voyages
- The database Generale Zeemonsterrollen: (.xlsx) http://dutchshipsandsailors.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Database-Zeemo...
Publications:
- Victor de Boer, Jur Leinenga, Matthias van Rossum and Rik Hoekstra. Dutch Ships and Sailors Linked Data Cloud. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), 19-23 October, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2014.
- A. Bravo Balado. Information extraction on newspaper archives for historical research. a dutch maritime history case study. M.Sc. thesis VU University Amsterdam (forthcoming), 2014.
- Andrea Bravo Balado, Victor de Boer, and Guus Schreiber. Linking historical ship records to a newspaper archive. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Informatics (workshops). LNCS. ed. Luca Maria Aiello, Daniel McFarland, 2014.
- R. Ponstein. Reconciling dutch ships and sailors. M.Sc. thesis VU University Amsterdam (forthcoming), 2014.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Language

Dutch

Research domain

History

Resource tags

data

corpus

multi-media/muliti-modal

service

web-application

mono-lingual

Annotations

No Linguistic Annotation

Format

Textual data

XML

RDF

e-BNM+ Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:57:14 +0000

e-BNM+: Linked Data on Middle Dutch Sources Kept Worldwide

Summary

The curated e-BNM collection of textual, codicological and historical information about thousands of Middle Dutch manuscripts kept world wide.

Background

The Bibliotheca Neerlandica Manuscripta (BNM) collects and makes available information on medieval manuscripts produced in the Netherlands regardless where they are kept. Documentation activities concentrate on the Middle-Dutch texts and their authors that have been transmitted in these manuscripts, on the individuals and institutions that have been involved in the manuscript production (scribes, illuminators, monasteries) and on the former and present manuscript owners.
Since 1991 two-thirds of this ‘paper’ information, checked and supplemented with information from recent publications, has been converted into electronic data and incorporated in a database (e-BNM), which can be searched online. In 2013 this database was converted into a flexible datastructure that turned e-BNM into a key open access resource to which many other resources can easily be linked.
The new eBNM+:

will be freely accessible for every user, anywhere in the world;
can easily implement new contributions or corrections by scientists;
can easily be linked to related databases - in the near future cross searching several databases in one interface will be possible;
will be prepared for the inclusion of new data, like:
- research data on Middle Dutch texts that were printed before 1541 and the books in which they are preserved;
- articles on Middle Dutch texts and their authors (associated with the current thesaurised information).

Contacts

Project leader:  Dr André Bouwman (Leiden University Libraries)
CLARIN center: Huygens ING
Help contact: https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/gerritsen

Links

Web-sites: https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/ebnm/?lang=en
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): t.b.a.
Manual: API Description
Tool/Service link:
Data link (VLO): http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?fq=collection:e-BNM%2B+tekstdragers
Publications: t.b.a.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Language

Dutch

Research domain

History

Literary Studies

Resource tags

data

corpus

text corpus

lexicon

service

web-application

mono-lingual

Annotations

Bibliographic Annotation

External Linking

No Linguistic Annotation

Format

Textual data

XML

Arthurian Fiction Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:43:50 +0000

Arthurian Fiction

Summary

The database consists of linked records on over two hundred texts, more than thousand manuscripts and two hundred persons. Texts which belong to the pseudo-historical tradition of Geoffrey of Monmouth and printed books are not included. The database is work in progress: a considerable number of records have yet to be completed, while fresh discoveries of narratives and manuscripts invite new entries. The compilers of the database hope that this tool will contribute to further research into Arthurian fiction as a pan-European phenomenon.

Background

Arthurian stories constitute one of the most influential genres of western literature, and are studied intensively. Their fictional character made them ideal vehicles for expressing the social concerns and cultural values of their audiences.
The research project ‘Arthurian Fiction: A Pan-European Approach’ (2004-2008), led by Bart Besamusca, resulted in two databases, one describing Arthurian texts and one describing manuscripts written between c. 1150 and c. 1550. The first database consists of features of the ca. 250 stories (data on author, date of composition, patron, language, form and structure of the text, characters, etc). The other focusses on the medieval books in which the Arthurian narratives have survived. In this database, features of ca. 1200 manuscripts were compiled (data on the date of production of the books, language, contents, layout, script, illustrations, owners, etc.). These two File Maker Pro databases were designed to be linked, in order to enable the user to access all available information on an Arthurian manuscript via the entry in the stories database, and vice versa. In this tool both databases have been integrated into one that is available online to scholars. The new database is dynamic: authorized collaborators form all over the world will be able to correct and add records to the database.

Contacts

Project leader: Dr. Bart Besamusca (Utrecht University)
CLARIN center: Huygens ING
Help contact: info@arthurianfiction.org

Links

Web-sites: http://www.arthurianfiction.org/
User scenario's, screencast: http://vimeo.com/40508976
Showcase: http://www.clarin.nl/node/373
Project movie: http://youtu.be/t0y-ecrVD5w
Manual: n.a.
Tool/Service link: https://service.arthurianfiction.org/static/index.html#current=manuscripts
Data link: (in VLO) http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/search?4&fq=collection:Arthurian+Fiction+pr...
Publications:
- Besamusca, A.A.M. & Quinlan, J. (2012). The Fringes of Arthurian Fiction. Arthurian literature, 29, 191-241.
- Boot, P. (2012), Manuscripten koning Arthur op tafel, E-Data & Research 7(1), 2012.
- Dalen-Oskam, K. van and Besamusca, B. (2011), Arthurian Fiction in Medieval Europe: Narratives and Manuscripts, presentation held at the CLARIN-NL Kick-off meeting Call 2, Utrecht, February 9, 2011.
- Dalen-Oskam, K. van (2011), ArthurianFiction, presentation held at the Call 3 information session, Utrecht, August 25, 2011.

Country

Netherlands

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Language

Multiple languages

Research domain

Literary Studies

Resource tags

data

Annotations

No Linguistic Annotation

Format

Textual data

XML

EMIT-X

Erica Renckens — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:26:54 +0000

EMIT-X: Early-Modern Image and Text eXchange

Summary

Data and metadata from the Emblem Project Utrecht (EPU) on an experimental OAI data provider, facilitating sharing and re-use. The EPU-project created a collection of 27 books of love emblems. The Emblem Project Utrecht is a partner in the 'Open Emblem' Initiative which coordinates the emblem metadata integration efforts being done in individual emblem digitisation projects.

Background

In the Netherlands, the Emblem Project Utrecht (EPU, supported by NWO/KNAW) created a collection of 27 books of love emblems, a Dutch invention that became very popular all over Europe during the Early-Modern period. Because of its wide geographical and linguistic dispersion, however, study of the emblem requires access not just to the books of a single national tradition (e.g. the Dutch), but also to the emblem books published in other European countries. As early as 2001 the first symposia were held about the possibilities of creating a single European portal for emblem studies. The Utrecht project has been actively participating in international efforts promoting digital emblem interoperability. For the international Society for Emblem Studies (SES, http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/SES/) the subject of digital collections and collection exchange has been a recurrent topic. Among the joint research questions driving these efforts were the need to study emblems comparatively (over national cultures), to trace the transmission of textual and pictorial motifs, and to study the adaptation of foreign emblem books in local contexts. The Open Emblem Group established by the Society coordinates the efforts.

In EMIT-X two harvestable collections of data were created: the project’s metadata, which describe the emblem’s data structure, harvested for the CMDI, and the projects emblem data (texts of the emblems and associated indexing), harvested by emblem researchers at the OpenEmblem portal and elsewhere. Emblem researchers in the Netherlands and elsewhere are able to search across collections and boundaries. Because EMIT-X also makes available the relevant metadata descriptions in the CLARIN infrastructure, EMIT-X also paved the way for European partner-projects to make their data available in the CLARIN infrastructure. The participation in EMIT-X (at-a-distance) of the international advisory partners guaranteed that the choices made fit within the proposed international collaboration.

Contacts