Issue 6: Text Collections

CELT - Corpus of Electronic texts

CELT - Corpus of Electronic texts http://celt.ucc.ie/ (Last Accessed: 2017-05-31). Reviewed by Turlough O'Riordan (Royal Irish Academy).

This review addresses the ‘CELT - Corpus of Electronic texts’ archive, developed and housed at University College Cork, Ireland. CELT is a digital humanities archive – and arguably a scholarly platform – comprising 1600 documents. An account of its piecemeal historical evolution, spanning the emergence of the Digital Humanities in Ireland, is given in this…

Women Writers in Review

Women Writers in Review http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/review/index.html (Last Accessed: 2017-07-19). Reviewed by Amanda Gagel (Mark Twain Project, University of California-Berkeley).

Women Writers in Review is the latest text corpus and digital humanities website to be produced by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes over 600 reviews of women’s writing published between 1770 and 1830. The texts are encoded in TEI/XML and the site is easily navigable. It is a significant addition to the scholarship of early…

Litteraturbanken

Litteraturbanken http://litteraturbanken.se (Last Accessed: 2017-07-27). Reviewed by Mats Dahlström (University of Borås) and Wout Dillen (University of Antwerp).

Litteraturbanken (The Swedish Literature Bank) is a freely available digital collection of Swedish literary works, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature. It is the result of a cooperation between literary and linguistic scholars, research libraries, and editorial societies and academies. The collection consists not only of digital facsimiles, but…

Varitext

Varitext http://syrah.uni-koeln.de/varitext/ (Last Accessed: 2017-08-15). Reviewed by Julia Burkhardt (University of Leipzig).

This review discusses the web-based platform Varitext that up to now provides free-of-charge access to the Corpus des variétés nationales du français (CoVaNa-FR) and is designed to assimilate further linguistic corpora of other languages in the future. The aim of Varitext is to make available large-scale resources of so-called ‘pluricentric’ languages…

Corpus of Spanish Golden-Age Sonnets

Corpus of Spanish Golden-Age Sonnets https://github.com/bncolorado/CorpusSonetosSigloDeOro (Last Accessed: 2017-05-01). Reviewed by José Calvo Tello (University of Würzburg).

In this paper a TEI corpus with sonnets from the Spanish Golden-Age is reviewed. Some of the 52 authors represented in the collection are Cervantes, Lope, Quevedo, Tirso, Calderón or Góngora. In total, the corpus contains more than 5000 sonnets. The project is currently under development at the University of Alicante, Spain. One of the strongest aspects of…

Regesta Imperii online

Regesta Imperii online www.regesta-imperii.de/ (Last Accessed: 2017-08-12). Reviewed by Julian Schulz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität).

Regesta Imperii (RI) online is one of the fundamental platforms for medieval research. RI stands for a combination of tradition and innovation. Based on the printed volumes which have been released since the early 19th century up until now, the text collection brings together the traditional arrangement of the research project and the wide range of new…

Spectateurs (Moralische Wochenschriften)

Spectateurs (Moralische Wochenschriften) http://gams.uni-graz.at/context:mws (Last Accessed: 2017-08-08). Reviewed by Greta Franzini (Georg-August-Universität Goettingen).

The Spectateurs (Moralische Wochenschriften) project is collecting eighteenth century periodical essays from the Enlightenment period from different European countries in an effort to build a comprehensive database of this literary genre. The unique selling proposition of the corpus is its multilingualism, in that users can explore the genre across borders…

Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence

Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence http://www.e-enlightenment.com (Last Accessed: 2016-07-19). Reviewed by Mark J. Hill (London School of Economics).

The Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence (EE), under the directorship of Robert McNamee and made available on a subscription basis by Oxford University Press, is a text collection of over 70,000 individual letters (written between participants of the ‘republic of letters’), biographical details of contributors, and additional…

Deutsches Textarchiv

Deutsches Textarchiv http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/ (Last Accessed: 2017-08-16). Reviewed by Dario Kampkaspar (Herzog August Bibliothek / Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften).

Owing to its well documented TEI subset and highly accurate transcriptions usually based on the first edition of a text, the German Textarchive (= Deutsches Textarchiv, DTA) is currently one of the best corpora for historical German texts (1600-1900), albeit not necessarily the most extensive. To date (August 2017) it contains around 3260 works. The full…

«La Repubblica» Corpus

«La Repubblica» Corpus https://corpora.dipintra.it/public/run.cgi/first?corpname=repubblica (Last Accessed: 2017-08-01). Reviewed by Rebecca Sierig (University of Leipzig).

This paper reviews a huge resource of contemporary Italian newspaper language, the «La Repubblica» corpus. The corpus contains articles, which appeared in the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica during the years 1985 to 2000 and counts more than 380 million tokens. Apart from being tokenized, it is also PoS-tagged, enriched with TEI-conformant structural…

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