European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) in TextGridRep (2021-11-22)

This is the project site of the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) in the TextGrid Repository (TextGridRep). The goal of adding the ELTeC to TextGridRep is to publish and archive this valuable set of corpora in European languages and combine them with the technical possibilites that TextGridRep offers. Currently, we have imported the 11 subcorpora of the ELTeC that contain more than 50 novels.

Browsing the ELTeC in TextGridRep

Here we present some possibilities of how to browse the ELTeC in TextGridRep:

• Navigate to all editions of the ELTeC
• Navigate to the subcorpus of one specific language
• Navitage to all objects of the ELTeC corpus (files and metadata of the editions, works and subcorpora).

In all these cases, you can add further filters with the options on the left.

Languages

Here ist a link to the all editions in each langague (edition.language:"[language]"):

• ron
• ces
• deu
• fra
• hun
• pol
• por
• slv
• srp
• eng
• spa

Filtering through Specific Metadata of the ELTeC (Facets)

Because some specific metadata fields are relevant for the composition of the ELTeC, these have been incorporated as new searchable metadata (facets) to TextGridRep. For this, the metadata in the TEI files incorporated in the TextGrid metadata fiels. Here we present some possible queries specific for the ELTeC:

• timeSlot
  • Look for all the works being written between yyyy and yyyy (work.temporal.id.value:"timeSlot" AND work.temporal.value:"T3" (in ONE tag!))
• firstEdition
  • Look for works being created in 1840 (work.dateOfCreation.value:"1840")
  • Look for works being created in 1910 (work.dateOfCreation.value:"1910"
• authorGender
  • Look for all works being writtten by men (work.subject.id.value:"authorGender" AND work.subject.value:"male" (in ONE tag!))
• size
  • Look for all works considered medium in their length (work.subject.id.value:"size" AND work.subject.value:"medium" (in ONE tag!))
• reprintCount
  • Look for all works with a high number or reprins (as a proxy for high-brow literature)(work.subject.id.value:"reprintCount" AND work.subject.value:"high" (in ONE tag!))[(/search?query=work.subject.id.value%3A%22reprintCount%22+AND+work.subject.value%3A%22high%22&order=relevance&limit=10&filter=project.id%3ATGPR-d683fb0f-b71d-89fa-6678-61979ac32d0f)]

Of course, queries combining these facets are possible.

TextGrid Metadata Files

The basic metadata is covered by the TextGrid Metadata schema in Edition and Work metadata, all additional project specific metadata is covered by the metadata added to the works. Please see the following two examples:

• Edition metadata (XML)

• Work metadata (XML)

• Browse the work in the TextGrid Repository

Technically, there are two parts of metadata: Metadata that can be searched using facets, and metadata that cannot.

Further Internal Documentation

Example Project

Project name: DISTANT READING XI

Project ID: TGPR-d683fb0f-b71d-89fa-6678-61979ac32d0f

Issues

More and up-to-date issues please find in the project's Gitlab Issues

and in the Gitlab import project