Travelogues Intertextuality Toolbox

This repository contains scripts and helpers to study intextual relations in the books of the Travelogues Corpus.

!!! Work in progress !!!

Tools

The tools folder contains scripts and helpers for studying intertextual relations between texts.

• text-reuse contains code to detect verbatim text re-use
• spatial-focus contains tools for geocoding and studying the spatial focus of texts
• topics contains helpers for topic modelling

Detailed descriptions can be found in the README files in the specific subfolders.

Sample Data

The sample-data folder contains useful test material, sampled from the corpus.

• random-samples 18 random works sampled from the corpus
• two-related two travelogues from 17th and 18th century, respectively (AC08439291 and AC10001446) where the later work is known to refer to the earlier one
• three-17c three selected travelogues from the 17th century (AC09750782, AC10232182, AC10307407)
• near-duplicates two selected texts that are known to contain a high amount of text re-use (~20%)

Examples

Contains sample results.

TODO

• Plot similarity CSVs as networks
• Plot similarity CSVs as histograms
• Implement spatial similarity through a nearest-neighbour approach
• Draft a report/workshop paper