IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 735: Networked Data: Collecting, Managing, and Analysing Relational Data in Medieval Studies, I
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centrum pro digitální výzkum náboženství / Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
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| Organisers: | Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Paper 735-a | Analysing Messy Data: How to Structure Vague, Incomplete, or Ambiguous Source Material in nodegoat (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies |
| Paper 735-b | Computer-Assisted Semantic Text Modelling (CASTEMO) and the InkVisitor Environment: From Sentences in a Source to Statements in a Database (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies |
| Abstract | The growth of the digital humanities and the increasing accessibility of computational methods offer many tantalising possibilities for the study of the past, including the Middle Ages. But in order to deploy the analytical techniques offered by these developments, we face a fundamental challenge: the capture of structured data from and concerning our sources, whether they be texts, images or other artifacts of material culture. Given that historical study is founded on the careful, nuanced handling of sources, this represents a significant challenge. Approaches to data capture that focus on complex relationality – i.e. on the relation of elements within or concerning the source to one another – now offer new opportunities to face this challenge head on, and even to add new dimensions to source-criticism. This panel looks at a number of such approaches, how medievalists can deploy them with particular types of sources, and their advantages for study. |