NeoLatin correspondence in digital surroundings eljka Salopek Faculty

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Neo-Latin correspondence in digital surroundings Željka Salopek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2

Neo-Latin correspondence in digital surroundings Željka Salopek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2 nd International Symposium Digital Humanities Zadar, November 6 – 8, 2017

 • Correspondence of Croatian Neo-Latin authors • Digital collection Croatiae Auctores Latini (Cro.

• Correspondence of Croatian Neo-Latin authors • Digital collection Croatiae Auctores Latini (Cro. ALa) • COST Action IS 1310 • Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) digital catalogue

Cro. ALa http: //croala. ffzg. unizg. hr/ • Texts written in Latin by Croatian

Cro. ALa http: //croala. ffzg. unizg. hr/ • Texts written in Latin by Croatian authors or authors connected to Croatia • From the Middle Ages until modern times • Freely available under CC-BY licence • Downloadable from Bitbucket and Github • XML editions encoded by TEI standards

Reassembling the Republic of Letters http: //www. republicofletters. net/ • Reassembling the Republic of

Reassembling the Republic of Letters http: //www. republicofletters. net/ • Reassembling the Republic of Letters : a digital framework for multilateral collaboration on Europe’s intellectual history, 1500 -1800 • COST Action IS 1310 (2014 -2018) • „The Action’s main objective is to plan a digital system designed to collect, analyse, and visualise data on the Republic of Letters, to facilitate new forms of radically multilateral scholarly collaboration, and to communicate the fruits of that collaboration to the public. ”

EMLO Catalogue http: //emlo-portal. bodleian. ox. ac. uk/collections/? page_id=480 • Research project Cultures of

EMLO Catalogue http: //emlo-portal. bodleian. ox. ac. uk/collections/? page_id=480 • Research project Cultures of knowledge : networking the Republic of Letters, 1550 -1750 • Bodleian library and the Humanities division of the University of Oxford • Created in the period: 2009 -2012 • Union catalogue of the data on the Republic of Letters

Correspondence from Cro. ALa • 299 letters from 15 th to 20 th century

Correspondence from Cro. ALa • 299 letters from 15 th to 20 th century • Encoded by TEI standards • • • author, recipient, place of origin, destination, date of the letter • Every letter has an ID and a source noted

Contributing the collection • Contribution via webform or excell spreadsheets • export of the

Contributing the collection • Contribution via webform or excell spreadsheets • export of the datased from Cro. ALa into the csv format • the majority of people and places were not in the catalogue • EMLO-Collect area • it is possible to make changes and additoons to the data

Challenges • People • one person, many names • one name, many persons •

Challenges • People • one person, many names • one name, many persons • VIAF, Wikipedia, Croatian bibliographic lexicon • Place • Geonames and geo-coordinates • places through time • Time • multiple calendars • levels of certainty • What is a letter?

Thank You! zsalopek@ffzg. hr

Thank You! zsalopek@ffzg. hr