Universität zu Köln

Lang, Sarah ORCID: 0000-0002-4618-9481 (2023). Digital Scholarly Editions of Alchemical Texts as Tools for Interpretation. In: Digitale Edition in Österreich Digital Scholarly Edition in Austria, pp. 111-132. Norderstedt: BoD. ISBN 978-3-7504-2702-0

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Abstract

Digital Scholarly Editions commonly provide annotations and visualization tools for Named Entities, dates or basic quantitative text analysis using methods based on bags of words and word counting. This paper argues that such methods are not enough to provide meaningful insight into texts from the history of science and alchemy especially, using two case studies from the alchemical texts by iatrochymist Michael Maier (1568-1622). A custom-made method for the interpretation of alchemical terms is presented which relies on the polyvalent semantic annotation of relevant yet ambiguous alchemical Decknamen and the analysis of their semantic contexts using a digital knowledge organization system.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lang, Sarah UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4618-9481 UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bleier, Roman UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4674-1042 UNSPECIFIED Klug W., Helmut UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7461-5820 UNSPECIFIED
Corporate Creators:	Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-704518
Title of Book:	Digitale Edition in Österreich Digital Scholarly Edition in Austria
Series Name at the University of Cologne:	Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik
Volume:	16
Page Range:	pp. 111-132
Date:	2023
Publisher:	BoD
Place of Publication:	Norderstedt
ISSN:	2197-6945
ISBN:	978-3-7504-2702-0
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Zentrale Forschungseinrichtungen > Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)
Subjects:	Generalities, Science Data processing Computer science Library and information sciences
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Digital Humanities German Digitale Editionen German
Related URLs:	Publication Author/Lecturer/Editor
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/70451