Vol-1399
urn:nbn:de:0074-1399-1

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BD2015
Biographical Data in a Digital World 2015

Proceedings of the First Conference on Biographical Data in a Digital World 2015

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 9, 2015.

Edited by

Serge ter Braake *
Antske Fokkens *
Ronald Sluijter
Thierry Declerck *
Eveline Wandl-Vogt ****

* VU University Amsterdam, Faculties of Humanities and Computer Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
** Huygens ING, Research Institute of History and Culture, The Hague, the Netherlands
*** Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Language and Technology Lab, Saarbrücken, Germany
**** Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Corpuslinguistics and Text Technology, Vienna, Austria

Table of Contents

Introduction

Bringing Biographical Data Online

Ernst Jandl and Karl Kraus - Two Lives in Bits and Pieces 1-7
Vanessa Hannesschläger, Katharina Prager
Germania Sacra Online - The Research Portal of Clerics and Religious Institutions before 1810 8-12
Bärbel Kröger, Christian Popp
From Biographies to Data Curation - The Making of www.deutsche-biographie.de 13-19
Matthias Reinert, Maximilian Schrott, Bernhard Ebneth, Team deuthsche-biographie.de
Ainm.ie: Breathing New Life into a Canonical Collection of Irish-language Biographies 20-23
Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Gearóid Ó Cleircín

Analyzing Biographical Data with Computational Methods

Traces through Time: a Case-study of Applying Statistical Methods to Refine Algorithms for Linking Biographical Data 24-32
Mark Bell, Sonia Ranade
Extraction of Career Profiles from Wikipedia 33-38
Firas Dib, Simon Lindberg, Pierre Nugues
Personality Mining from Biographical Data with the "Adjectival Marker" Technique 39-47
Shivani Poddar, VenuMadhav Kattagoni, Navjyoti Singh
Tolstoy Digital: Mining Biographical Data in Literary Heritage Editions 48-52
Anastasia Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Matvey Kolbasov
Biographical Data Exploration as a Test-bed for a Multi-view, Multi-method Approach in the Digital Humanities 53-60
André Blessing, Andrea Glaser, Jonas Kuhn

Group Portraits and Networks

A Visual Analysis of Rosey E. Pool's Correspondence Archives. Biographical Data, Intersectionality, and Social Network Analysis 61-67
Lonneke Geerlings
Who's Who in Late Medieval Brussels 68-73
Bram Vannieuwenhuyze
Interpersonal Relations in Biographical Dictionaries. A Case Study 74-80
Sophia Stotz, Valentina Stuß, Matthias Reinert, Maximilian Schrott
Prosopographical Survey of Lecturers at the Directorate School in Early Northern Song China (960-1050) 81-84
Chu Ming-kin
How to Make it in History. Working Towards a Methodology of Canon Research with Digital Methods 85-93
Serge ter Braake and Antske Fokkens

Visualisations and Representations

Interactive Genealogy Explorer: Visualization of Migration of Ancestors and Relatives 94-100
Daniel Shakespear
An OWL Ontology for Biographical Knowledge. Representing Time-Dependent Factual Knowledge 101-110
Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Thierry Declerck
Extracting and Visualising Biographical Events from Wikipedia 111-115
Irene Russo, Tommaso Caselli, Monica Monachini
Visualizing Longitudinal Data. Rooted Cosmopolitans in the Low Countries, 1850-1914 116-121
Thomas D'haeninck, Nico Randeraad, Christophe Verbruggen

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