DCDC16 | Reviving Epistolary Conversations - University of Exeter
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Date: 2017-01-11

Reviving epistolary conversations: Linked Data and dialogic approaches to letter collections

Helen Angear, Graham Fereday and Hannah Petrie (University of Exeter)

This paper examines the benefits of taking a dialogic approach to connect single author archives. Letters are traditionally stored and published separately, yet greater understanding comes from reading letters in overlapping pairs. Correspondence is a developing area within the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), and by combining text markup with a Linked Data approach, we can document and describe entities (such as people, places, and events) found within a single author’s letters to connect our data with those of other organisations, both within and outside academia. This creates new research pathways enabling users to explore collections in more serendipitous ways.

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