Kinship Shifts and Social Network Analysis in Medieval Portuguese Genealogy
Blašković, Marija
University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
HTML XMLIn this paper, the Livro de Linhagens do Deão (ca.1343), a genealogical account which includes concubines, multiple marriages, illegitimate children, and people without offspring, is explored via social network analysis methods. The visualized interrelationships shed light both on kinship structures within each family and the work as a whole.
Social Network Analysis as an exploratory tool for analyzing large corpora of papyri
Alvares Freire, Fernanda (1,2)
1: Universität Rostock, Germany; 2: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
HTML XMLIn this paper, we propose the application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) for the exploration of large corpora of papyri within the context of a case study focused on interpersonal relations as represented in texts from the Zenon archive.
AfricanCalifornios.org: Reconstructing the African past of Spanish and Mexican California
Jones, Cameron David; Khosmood, Foaad; Ariza, Marco; Colin, Anthony; Martin, Jack
California Polytechnic State University, United States of America
HTML XMLThe paper presents AfricanCalifornios.org, a website aimed at reconstructing the African and Afro-descendant presence in Spanish and Mexican California using data science and user-friendly visualizations, including maps and family trees.
Collaboration and Transparency: A User-Generated Documentation for eScriptorium
Chagué, Alix (1,2,3); Chiffoleau, Floriane (1,4); Scheithauer, Hugo (1,3)
1: ALMAnaCH, Inria, France; 2: Université de Montréal, Canada; 3: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France; 4: Le Mans Université, France
HTML XMLWe use the example of the user-generated documentation created for eScriptorium to investigate the benefits and limitations of such contributions to open-source software. The new documentation offers a solution to a scattered, hard to maintain landscape of documentation on eScriptorium. Its design favors future collaborations across user groups and languages.
How deep is the gap? Analyzing the gender divide in a German literary canon
Schumacher, Mareike Katharina (1); Flüh, Marie (2)
1: University of Stuttgart, Germany; 2: University of Hamburg, Germany
HTML XMLWe present an overview on general tendencies of the gender divide in Marcel-Reich-Ranicki’s “Canon of world literature” (Marcel-Reich-Ranicki-Canon-Corpus / MRRCC) and shed light on the question whether attempts to focus female representations in special editions such as Gutenberg’s “strong women volume” (SWV) actually help to reduce gender representation bias.