Op vrijdagmiddag 29 oktober organiseert het Centre for Digital Humanities van de Universiteit Utrecht het webinar ‘Beyond “Ctrl-F”: automating searches in large textual corpora.
‘How widespread was the use of the actors category “Respublica literaria” in the early modern period? Was it used just as frequently in the 16th as in the 18th century? Did German, French, Dutch and Spanish scholars all inscribe themselves into this community? Did they all even use the term? This is one of the questions that researchers in the ERC Consolidator project ‘Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks – The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society’ (SKILLNET) try to answer (‘Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks – The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society’). Two challenges face them: first, the complexity of the Latin term ‘respublica literaria’ which occurs in 192 variations, due to different spellings, declinations and word order. Second, the fact that the texts available for machine-reading are quite dirty. These are the problems that Liliana Melgar and Dirk van Miert will address in their presentation.’
Voor meer informatie en aanmelding zie: https://cdh.uu.nl/events/cdh-webinar-beyond-ctrl-f/.