Annotating place names in early modern Latin texts
Nina Čengić / nina.cengic@gmail.com
University of Zagreb
Madrid, 15-16 December 2016
This page: croala.ffzg.unizg.hr/croala-index-locorum/
Repository: github.com/nevenjovanovic/croala-pelagios
Research
Texts
Means and materials
Results
History: Crijević Tubero, Commentarii de temporibus suis, c. 1525
Epic: Bunić, De raptu Cerberi, c. 1490
Oratory: Nikola Modruški, Funerary oration for Cardinal P. Riario, 1474
Poetry: Marulić, Carmina (c. 1500) and Crijević, Carmina (c. 1500)
Research
Texts
Means and materials
Results
Neel Smith and Christopher Blackwell, 2006-
Each text segment and each annotation have their own URN
The URNs are used to create an index
- not a place name
- is a place name
- place name consisting of two words or more
- place name construed as metonymy
- for further consideration
Geographical
Cultural
Cultural place changes over time
Index locorum: croala.ffzg.unizg.hr/basex/cp-loci-id/corpus
Rome: croala.ffzg.unizg.hr/basex/cite/urn:cite:croala:loci.locid05214
Achelous river
urn:cite:croala:loci:locid38525
Acheron
We have set out to annotate place names in selected Croatian Latin texts from the Renaissance. We have qualified the placeness of place names, described their linguistic form, linked the words to things (actual or imaginary places), and located the things in time (again actual or imaginary). We were able to put it all together by connecting annotations to text segments following the CITE Architecture concepts.
Digital annotations, each of them brief, simple, and almost without usual scholarly prose, thus become a more structured and more manipulable scholarly commentary. Its real complexity appears when we start to examine connections of these simple, atomic annotations in their molecular configurations.