Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 5(4), pp. 323 - 331
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050406
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Discursive Constructions of Culture: Semantic Modelling for Historical Travel Guides


Ulrike Czeitschner *, Barbara Krautgartner
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

ABSTRACT

Besides introducing the Baedeker Corpus, a digital collection of early German travel guides on non-European countries, key topics addressed in this paper are linguistic and in particular semantic annotation, domain-specific taxonomy building, corpus enrichment by embedding of external resources, and some good reasons why advanced textual studies on this genre are of interest. Early Baedeker handbooks are valuable rarities today because only a small number of copies escaped from frequent maltreatment of being cut up to save luggage weight on local trips. Those having endured give us a vivid impression of cultural narratives from the turn of the 19th century, and they tell more than one story. The presented project approaches this complex issue focusing on data development in general and the leading actors in the travel guides, people and notable sights in particular. Considering widely recognized standards for scholarly editing and relying on pan-European infrastructures to enhance data interchange and reusability, the aim is to make a well-equipped and freely accessible language resource available, which is meant to foster cross-disciplinary research on cultural representation and identity constructing discourses.

KEYWORDS
Digital Humanities, Historical Travel Guides, Digital Edition, TEI, Semantic Technologies, SKOS

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[1] Ulrike Czeitschner , Barbara Krautgartner , "Discursive Constructions of Culture: Semantic Modelling for Historical Travel Guides," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 323 - 331, 2017. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050406.

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Ulrike Czeitschner , Barbara Krautgartner (2017). Discursive Constructions of Culture: Semantic Modelling for Historical Travel Guides. Sociology and Anthropology, 5(4), 323 - 331. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.050406.