Text Analysis of Aberdeen Burgh Records 1530-1531

Abstract

The paper outlines a text analytic project in progress on a corpus of entries in the historical burgh and council registers from Aberdeen, Scotland. Some preliminary output of the analysis is described. The registers run in a near-unbroken sequence form 1398 to the present day; the early volumes are a UNESCO UK listed cultural artefact. The study focusses on a set of transcribed pages from 1530-1531 originally hand written in a mixture of Latin and Middle Scots. We apply a text analytic tool to the corpus, providing deep semantic annotation and making the text amenable to linking to web-resources.

The Aberdeen Burgh Records of 1398–1531 and the Semantic Web

“…In addition, the XML was converted to RDF triples, allowing SPARQL queries as well as linking TALH materials to external resources. However, given the limited resources, there were only limited experiments with querying and linking the representations (Wyner et al, 2014).…”