On Reconstructions of Academic Canonicity: Explorations of University Course Catalogs for German Literature
Hilger, Agnes
Universität Würzburg, Germany
HTML XMLDiscussions of writers in university courses are viewed as an indicator for their academic canonicity. Based on this idea, course descriptions for German Literature are scraped from online course catalogs. NER and Entity Linking are performed to identify writers. An exploration of these mentions suggests national differences between the canons.
“Libération des données”: An open science approach to the curation and analysis of the <em>XVIIIe si</em><em>ècle: b</em><em>ibliographie</em>
Schöch, Christof
University of Trier, Germany
This contribution showcases the XVIIIe siècle: bibliographie, provides insight into strategies for the open curation of bibliographic data into a standards-based dataset, highlights key findings about the publication habits in Eighteenth-century studies, all while making the process as transparent as possible and providing data and code on a website: https://christofs.github.io/BIB18/.
Echoes Unveiled: Quantifying Literary Historical Scholarship with Word Embeddings
Brottrager, Judith
TU Darmstadt, Germany
HTML XMLThis contribution outlines the steps necessary for an implementation of a word embedding of the academic literary historical discourse to quantify which authors and texts appear in similar contexts and presents first results of such an embedding covering the long 18th and 19th century of European Anglophone literary history.
Information Extraction from German Medieval Charters Abstracts
Aoun, Sandy (1); Arzt, Varvara (2,3); Luger, Daniel (1); Vogeler, Georg (1)
1: University of Graz, Austria; 2: Vienna University of Technology, Austria; 3: University of Klagenfurt, Austria
With the aim of enhancing the analysis of textual patterns in documentary practices, we share our preliminary findings from investigating the extraction and classification of named entities that are present in German medieval charters abstracts.
Reinventing Historical Sources as New Computational Social Science Data: Regulations for Vocational Education over Time in Germany
Udelhofen, Stefan (1); Dörpinghaus, Jens (1,2); Tiemann, Michael (1); Reiser, Thomas (2); Steiner, Petra (1)
1: Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Germany; 2: University of Koblenz, Germany
In this paper, we would like to present an innovative project for the digitization and analysis of a collection of occupation-related documents with legal basis in Germany. This collection is located at the BIBB and represents about 85 years of German vocational education and training history.