Annotation of Toponyms in TEI Digital Literary Editions and Linking to the Web of Data

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_3

Keywords:

digital literary studies, toponyms, semantic web, geographic databases, maps and visualizations

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the challenges and benefits of the annotation of place names in literary texts and literary criticism. We shall first highlight the problems of encoding spatial information in digital editions using the TEI format by means of  two manual annotation experiments and the discussion of various cases. This will lead to the question of  how to use existing semantic web resources to complement and enrich toponym mark-up, in particular to provide mentions with precise geo-referencing. Finally the automatic annotation of a large corpus will show the potential of visualizing places from texts, by illustrating an analysis of the evolution of literary life from the spatial and geographical point of view.

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Published

2016-07-11

How to Cite

Frontini, Francesca, Carmen Brando, Marine Riguet, Clémence Jacquot, and Vincent Jolivet. 2016. “Annotation of Toponyms in TEI Digital Literary Editions and Linking to the Web of Data”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 4 (2):49-75. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_3.

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016): Digital Literary Studies 2

Section

Secção Temática | Thematic Section

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