Holcot Use And Reuse | Jeffrey C. Witt

Editing Holcot: Laying the Groundwork for the Future Use and Reuse of Holcot’s Corpus

Jeffrey C. Witt (Loyola University Maryland) | @jeffreycwitt

January 5, 2018

Paris, France

Slide Deck: http://lombardpress.org/slides/2018-01-05-holcot-use-and-reuse

## Outline 1. Introduction 2. Uses 1. Dynamic Presentations 2. Corpus Searches 3. Network Analysis 4. Topic Modeling 3. Concrete Proposal

# I. Introduction

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# II. Uses and Re-Uses

# 1. Dynamic Presentation

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/Holcot-diplomatic-list.png)

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![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/balliol-with-collation.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/balliol-with-image.png)

[http://mirador.scta.info/?resourceid=holcotquodlibeta](http://mirador.scta.info/?resourceid=holcotquodlibeta) ![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/Mirador_Viewer.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/Mirador_Viewer2.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/Holcot-Pdfs.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/print-text-example.png)

# 2. Corpus Searches

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/HolcotCorpusTextSearch.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/HolcotQuestionSearch.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/Holcot-Mirador-Search.png)

# 3. Network Analysis

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/bonaventure_scholion.png)

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![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/dead-end-and-networked-connections1.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/dead-end-and-networked-connections2.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/dead-end-and-networked-connections3.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/dead-end-and-networked-connections4.png)

Vargas Example

Holcot Example

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/dead-end-and-networked-connections5.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/dead-end-and-networked-connections6.png)

![connections](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/quotation-explorer.png)

# 4. Topic Modeling

![topic-modelling](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/topic_modelling1.png)

![topic-modelling](https://s3.amazonaws.com/lum-faculty-jcwitt-public/topic_modelling2.png)

## III. Concrete Proposal ### How can we publish our editorial work as data?

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Concretely, to make this work, we would need: * A transcription of an individual witness (ideally a transcription of each witness) that records: * At a minimum: * the text as it appears in the witness in question * paragraph breaks that mirror paragraph breaks used in the critical text * quotations that mirror quotations identified in the critical text * Ideally also: * line breaks in the manuscript * original spellings * corrections such as additions and deletions

While the SCTA has established a long list of guidelines for recording these details in TEI XML ([see the LombardPress Schema](http://lombardpress.org/schema/docs)), this need not be a hurdle for those unfamiliar with these technologies.

We can accept transcriptions in Microsoft Word documents that record the most essential information as follows: * paragraph breaks with double hard return (two new line breaks) * quotations with quotation marks * line breaks with a single hard return (one new line break) If these basic rules are followed, we can automate most of the conversion process and allow later details about the witness (corrections, marginal notes, etc) to be added later.