Corpus
A big milestone of the LostMa project is to assemble and publish a multilingual corpus of textual traditions. A narrative's inclusion in the corpus is defined by the following criteria:
What
Describes a hero or epic adventure.
How
First circulated in manuscript form.
When
First copies were written before the printing press.
Where
Circulated within Western Europe.
Resources
Documentation / Data Model
Documentation explaining the data (entities) and their metadata.
Corpus Metadata
Metadata about the literary corpus, which describe works, versions of works, manuscripts, etc.
See the for more information about how these entities and their metadata are defined. The documentation will also help you understand how to use this dataset for your own research purposes.
Corpus Full Text
TEI-XML documents that include the metadata of a witness and its full text, as predicted from an Handwritten Text Recognition (HRT) model.
In-progress stats
As our specialist contributors assemble the corpus, you can observe some key indicators about its evolving composition.
Dashboard is currently under construction...