Digital Neo-Latin Correspondence in Academic Circles
Explore the intersection of Neo-Latin correspondence and digital humanities at the 2nd International Symposium in Zadar. Discover resources like CroALa and EMLO for accessing Croatian Neo-Latin texts online. Learn about initiatives like "Reassembling the Republic of Letters" and "Cultures of Knowledge" focused on networking intellectual history in Europe. Dive into encoded letters from the 15th to 20th centuries, showcasing authorship, recipients, and historical context.
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Neo-Latin correspondence in digital surroundings eljka Salopek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2nd International Symposium Digital Humanities Zadar, November 6 8, 2017
Correspondence of Croatian Neo-Latin authors Digital collection Croatiae Auctores Latini (CroALa) COST Action IS1310 Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) digital catalogue
CroALa http://croala.ffzg.unizg.hr/ Texts written in Latin by Croatian authors or authors connected to Croatia From the Middle Ages until modern times Freely available under CC-BY licence Downloadable from Bitbucket and Github XML editions encoded by TEI standards
Reassembling the Republic of Letters http://www.republicofletters.net/ Reassembling the Republic of Letters : a digital framework for multilateral collaboration on Europe s intellectual history, 1500-1800 COST Action IS1310 (2014-2018) The Action s main objective is to plan a digital system designed to collect, analyse, and visualise data on the Republic of Letters, to facilitate new forms of radically multilateral scholarly collaboration, and to communicate the fruits of that collaboration to the public.
EMLO Catalogue http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?page_id=480 Research project Cultures of knowledge : networking the Republic of Letters, 1550-1750 Bodleian library and the Humanities division of the University of Oxford Created in the period: 2009-2012 Union catalogue of the data on the Republic of Letters
Correspondence from CroALa 299 letters from 15th to 20th century Encoded by TEI standards author, recipient, place of origin, destination, date of the letter Every letter has an ID and a source noted
Contributing the collection Contribution via webform or excell spreadsheets export of the datased from CroALa into the csv format the majority of people and places were not in the catalogue EMLO-Collect area it is possible to make changes and additoons to the data
Challenges People one person, many names one name, many persons VIAF, Wikipedia, Croatian bibliographic lexicon Place Geonames and geo-coordinates places through time Time multiple calendars levels of certainty What is a letter?
Thank You! zsalopek@ffzg.hr
