From the Scholarly Edition to Visualization: Re-using Encoded Data for Historical Research
Malte Rehbein
This paper reports from the perspective of a historian who is investigating an early medieval manuscript, aiming at opening it up for further research and exploring its location in space, time, intellectual context. The manuscript question texts carries show complex, interwoven network intra- intertextual relations argues that only combination, provided by computational means as methodological key, two usually distinct approaches, namely close reading distant reading, can deliver answers to questions imposed. introduces some central methods interdisciplinary field, commonly known digital humanities, realm data representation (data modeling text encoding) well core applications presentation analysis (digital editing visualization). As these supportive are neither starting-point historical nor end-in-itself, they mirrored against scholarly practices both, Middle Ages modern scholarship.
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing