DH Poetry Modelling: a Quest for Philological and Technical Standardization

CLARA MARTÍNEZ CANTÓN; ELENA GONZÁLEZ BLANCO GARCÍA; MARÍA GIMENA DEL RIO RIANDE

Cracovia

Congreso; Digital Humanities 2016: Conference; 2016

Jagiellonian University & Pedagogical University

What we propose in this paper is not a new method for analyzing poetry, but an abstract model based on a working methodology supported by a double standardization system, both at philological and technological levels. In relation to this aspect, it must be highlighted that it needs to be carried out by an interdisciplinary and coordinated team, which requires a careful design of data architecture in different levels. Our proposal aims to set up a procedure to combine philological criteria to map vocabularies and concepts which might have common means and properties in the different traditions and to insert them into an abstract framework in which each of these elements can fit as individuals of an ontology which gathers the main poetics concepts shared by most traditions. We have worked on some first approaches in this sense, building our first ontology prototype, based on our ReMetCa Spanish project: www.purl.org/net/remetca (González-Blanco, and Del Rio, et al., 2014), populated with a controlled vocabulary in SKOS, that can be found in http://vocabularios.caicyt.gov.ar/pmc/. These preliminary results, which served as prototype and a basis to build the current model, have been applied to different poetry projects, such as the edition of Cancionero de Baena: http://sade.textgrid.de/exist/apps/SADE/Dialogo_Medieval/index.html or the description of poetic collections in http://www.poetriae.linhd.es/, but they need to be expanded and improved to analyze other poetic systems.