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

VK Data

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 17:53:58 +0000

VK: Verrijkt Koninkrijk (Enriched Kingdom)

Summary

The enriched publication of the important Dutch historiographical work Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog (The Kingdom of the Netherlands in WWII) by Dr. Loe de Jong.

Background

Dr Loe de Jong’s Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog remains the most appealing history of German occupied Dutch society (1940-1945). Published between 1969 and 1991, the 14 volumes, consisting of 30 parts and 18,000 pages combine the qualities of an authoritative work for a general audience, and an inevitable point of reference for scholars.
In VK this corpus is enriched with:

Tokenization, sentence splitting, part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization (done with the FROG software from Tilburg University).
Named entity recognition (done using UvA's NE tagger (specially trained for Dutch within the Stevin DuoMan project)).
Polarity tagging (positive/negative connotation of words) (done using UvA's FietsTas software (developed for Dutch within the Stevin DuoMan project)).
Named entity reconciliation by linking to Wikipedia (done using software developed by Edgar Meij (UvA)).

Contacts

Project leader: Dr Kees Ribbens (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies)  
CLARIN center: Meertens Institute (data at DANS)
Help contact : kleppe@eshcc.eur.nl

Links

Web-sites: http://www.niod.knaw.nl/nl/projecten/verrijkt-koninkrijk
User scenario's (screencasts, screenshots): http://dev.clarin.nl/sites/default/files/VK%20D14%20Demonstration.pdf
Manual: (Dutch) http://www.loedejongdigitaal.nl/search/help.xq
Tool/Service link: http://www.loedejongdigitaal.nl/search/
Data link: https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:52758 (Persistent Identifier: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-nw8d-1i)
Publications: De Boer, V., J. van Doornik, L. Buitinck, K. Ribbens, and T. Veken. Enriched Access to a Large War Historical Text using the Back of the Book Index. Extended abstract presented at the Workshop on Semantic Web and Information Extraction (SWAIE 2012), Galway, Ireland, 9 october 2012 L. Buitinck and M.Marx, Two-Stage Named-Entity Recognition Using Averaged Perceptrons in proceedings of NDLB, Groningen, Netherlands, 2012. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-31178-9_17

NOTE: although the metadata is harvested from the Meertens Institute, the actual data is stored at DANS and CLARIN centre should be set to "none yet" (DB 2-10-2020)