Using Wikidata to describe Neo-Latin architecture-related authors, texts and words
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Authors Biographies: A classical philologist, Neven Jovanović completed a traditional MA thesis in philology (University of Zagreb, 1998, preparing a critical edition of an unedited 15th century Neo-Latin text: Nicholas of Modruš, De consolatione) and a PhD thesis supported by digital methods (University of Zagreb, 2005, a digital stylistic analysis of a large 16th century Neo-Latin work, the Evangelistarium by Marko Marulić). His main research interests are European Neo-Latin literature, especially connected with modern Croatia, and digital philology. His digital work centers on scholarly editions and analyses of Latin texts and textual corpora. He is the main editor of the digital collection Croatiae auctores Latini (CroALa, from 2009 on; currently 569 documents, 5.2 million words), which publishes open-source texts of Croatian Latin writers from 9th to 20th century. From 2008 he is also one of the editors of the Colloquia Maruliana yearbook, dedicated to exploring Dalmatian and Croatian Renaissance Humanism, and a researcher in the ERC project Architectural Culture of Early Modern Adriatic (AdriArchCult, PI Jasenka Gudelj, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia). In 2018 Jovanović co-edited (with Johanna Luggin, Luka Špoljarić, Lav Šubarić) a volume of comparative studies of Neo-Latin writings in Croatia and Tyrol: Neo-Latin contexts in Croatia and Tyrol: challenges, prospects, case studies (Böhlau Verlag). He has prepared digital collections of Renaissance Latin praises of Dalmatian cities (Laudationes urbium Dalmaticarum, 2011) and a digital bibliography of Croatian anti-Turkish writings during the Renaissance, 1400-1600 (2016).
Keywords: literature, Latin language, Neo-Latin literature, text collection, bibliography, architecture, terminology
TL;DR: How to model bibliographic and semantic information about Neo-Latin literature on the example of architectural terminology
Abstract: Neo-Latin literature denotes writing in Latin during the Early Modern period. On selected Neo-Latin writings related to architecture, I will demonstrate how I use Wikidata to connect authors, texts and words from a text collection (Croatiae auctores Latini, CroALa) with information in Wikidata – and what we do when the information does not exist in Wikidata yet (in the process of connecting the existing knowledge is made explicit and added to Wikidata, and especially to Wikidata Lexemes). Wikidata is used as a platform for an effort to make computationally manipulable what we know and understand about words and texts, with the larger ambition to make philological research as reproducible as possible.
Format: Lightning talk (5 minutes presentation)
Submission Number: 26
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