Modelling Medieval Vagueness
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serval:BIB_99C83CC3680A
Type
Inproceedings: an article in a conference proceedings.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Modelling Medieval Vagueness
Title of the conference
INFORMATIK 2020
Publisher
Gesellschaft für Informatik
Organization
Gesellschaft für Informatik
Address
Karlsruhe
ISBN
978-3-88579-701-2
ISSN
1617-5468
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Number
P307
Series
Lecture Notes in Informatics
Pages
1317–1326
Language
english
Abstract
The project An Agile Approach Towards Computational Modeling of Historiographical Uncertainty is building a taxonomy of historiographical uncertainty. We are focusing on early medieval texts as our case studies, because they are characterised by a high degree of “high stakes” uncertainty and a varied historiography characterised by a vivid debate. The additional factor of the manuscript text-transmission ensues that also the material aspect of the textual study will be covered in our attempt to build an adaptable taxonomy of historiographical uncertainty. Computational humanities need a robust methodological platform, that can be applied to a wide variety of projects. Uncertainty in general and geographical uncertainty in particular stand as the crucial aspects of this platform. We investigate a methodology of visualising geographical locales in historical texts and their historiographies that explicitly models uncertainty in.
Keywords
uncertainty, mapping, historiography, medieval history
Open Access
Yes
Funding(s)
Swiss National Science Foundation / Programmes / 190306
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