New Pelagios Network People Activity members

[Gabriel Bodard]

Dear all,

A few new members of the Pelagios Network have recently joined the People Activity group, and therefore this mailing list.

I would like to invite these people (and anyone else who has not previously done so) to introduce yourselves to the mailing list by reply to this email. Say a bit about your project, why you're involved with Pelagios, and what you hope to get from the LOD People activity in particular. And anything else you'd like us to know.

Welcome all!

Gabby

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Dr Gabriel BODARD (he/him)
Reader in Digital Classics

Director of Studies (research): Digital Humanities Research Hub

Director of Studies (research): Institute of Classical Studies

Mailing address:

  Institute of Classical Studies

  University of London

  Senate House

  Malet Street

  London WC1E 7HU

 
Due to new IT security rules, I am currently not able to read or reply to email outside of office hours, or while travelling or working from home. This may result in slower replies than usual.

[Tajana Jaklenec]

Dear Gabriel, dear all,

Thank you for the warm welcome. I assume I am one of the newest members.

I am from Zagreb, Croatia, and I am an architect by profession, working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture. My interdisciplinary PhD research focuses on the socio-semantic network analysis of housing discourse based on a corpus of two Croatian architectural magazines. I am exploring a shared language of housing among the key actors in these magazines.

My research spans sociology, architecture, and digital humanities. Since no existing tool can generate a semantic network in Croatian, I am developing my own workflow. I transfer annotated housing concepts from RS into a small Python script that calculates connections between concepts and performs lemmatization. To construct the semantic part of the network, I use the co-occurrence technique, as my research is primarily quantitative. The final network is visualized in Gephi.

I first encountered RS at the Baladria Summer School of Digital Humanities in Zadar, and after defending my research proposal, I was advised to use RS for annotation. Since the older RS version I worked with experienced server failures, I joined the Pelagios Network to test and work with the new RS.

Why am I in this group? While I am neither a programmer nor a linguist, I hope to contribute to the development of this module—particularly in relation to the connections between authors and concepts.

Looking forward to learning from and collaborating with you all.

Best regards,
Tajana