Modelling changes in diaries, correspondence and authors' libraries to support research on reading: the READ-IT approach

Alessio Antonini (1) , Francesca Benatti (1) , Edmund King (1) , François Vignale (2) , Guillaume Gravier (3)

1 OU - The Open University [Milton Keynes]
2 3L.AM - Langues, Littératures, Linguistique des Universités d'Angers et du Mans
3 LinkMedia - Creating and exploiting explicit links between multimedia fragments

Diaries, correspondence and authors' libraries provide important evidence into the evolution of ideas and society. Studying these phenomena is connected to understanding changes of perspective and values. In this paper we present the approach adopted by the READ-IT project in modelling changes in the contents of diaries, correspondence and authors' libraries related to reading. By considering these three types of sources, we discuss the use of the data model to permit the study and increase the usability of sources containing evidence of reading experiences, highlighting common challenges and patterns related to changes to readers and to the medium of reading when confronting historical events.

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document; Recherche d'information [cs.IR]; Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Littératures; Héritage culturel et muséologie; Bibliothèque électronique [cs.DL]

Alessio Antonini, Francesca Benatti, Edmund King, François Vignale, Guillaume Gravier. Modelling changes in diaries, correspondence and authors' libraries to support research on reading: the READ-IT approach. ODOCH 2019 - First International Workshop on Open Data and Ontologies for Cultural Heritage, Jun 2019, Rome, Italy. pp.1-12. ⟨hal-02130008⟩