Ein großer Berg Daten?  Zur bibliothekswissenschaftlichen Dimension des korpusliteraturwissenschaftlichen Digital Humanities-Projekts „High Mountains – Deutschschweizer Erzählliteratur 1880–1930“

Herrmann, J. Berenike; Grisot, Giulia; Gubser, Susanne; Kreyenbühl, Elias

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“…library records. In the past years, Digital Humanities have shown a new interest in working with data from bibliographies and library records (Henny-Krahmer 2017; Jannidis, Konle, and Leinen 2019;González 2021;Ehrlicher and Lehmann 2021;Herrmann et al 2021;Gittel 2021). This work can be framed in the new paradigm of the bibliographic data science, an emerging sub-discipline closely related to the Digital Humanities that analyzes library records and bibliographies to study the historical development of several types of publications, including literature, research, journals, etc.…”

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Where are Romance Studies Heading?

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What have been the main trends in Romance Studies in the last decades? What can be expected for the next decade? These are the two main research questions of this article. To answer them, a large dataset of over one million publications of research in Romance Studies has been extracted from German library catalogs. This dataset is analyzed through descriptive statistics and linear regression in order to predict the development in future years. Several fields of the respective catalogs are analyzed, such as the language and place of publication, publishers, e-book vs. printed versions, price and subjects.

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Examining the representation of landscape and its emotional value in German-Swiss fiction between 1840 and 1940

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Herrmann

2023

Journal of Cultural Analytics

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This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the representation and affective encoding of fictional space in a corpus of 125 Swiss literary prose texts of the 19th and early 20th Century written in German, offering a contribution to both spatial and affective literary studies. Motivated by questions about the iconic dichotomy between ‘urban’ and ‘rural/natural’ space in literary works (Sengle; Fournier; Nell and Weiland) – and in Swiss literature around 1900 in particular (Rehm) – we use computational methods to detect and examine how different types of space are distributed and affectively encoded in German-Swiss literature. Taking into account the complexity of cultural perceptions and representations of space across history, we examine the presence of ‘urban’ and ‘rural/natural’ fictional spaces and their potential role in constructing a ‘Swiss’ national literature (Böhler; Zimmer), and their affective encoding. In order to do this, we first compiled a comprehensive dictionary of named and non-named spatial entities in the broad spatial categories RURAL and URBAN, and examined the presence of sentiment and emotions (valence and discrete emotions) and their ‘strength’ (arousal) in relation to these. We used current state-of-the-art sentiment lexicons for German available to the digital humanities community. Similarly to Heuser et al., we mapped the spatial entities and the sentiment lexicons onto our corpus, and focused on spans of +/-50 words around the detected entities, in order to examine the specific sentiment and emotions related to space. In an exploratory analysis, we offer here a first-time data-driven perspective on rural and urban fictional space, incorporating the dimension of affective encoding of space systematically.

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Ein großer Berg Daten? Zur bibliothekswissenschaftlichen Dimension des korpusliteraturwissenschaftlichen Digital Humanities-Projekts „High Mountains – Deutschschweizer Erzählliteratur 1880–1930“

Cited by 2 publications

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Where are Romance Studies Heading?

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Examining the representation of landscape and its emotional value in German-Swiss fiction between 1840 and 1940

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