Research Infrastructure for the Digital Edition of Historical Travelogues. Development of a Modular Platform for the Digital Edition, Complex Content Exploration, Analysis and Visualization of Historical Travelogues

到目前为止，历史游记的数字版本几乎没有耗尽电子研究技术的潜力。当数字版本被用作进一步分析和可视化历史游记的数据基础时，情况尤其如此。这个操作的基本前提是一个“语义”版本，而不是纸质模拟（见Ted纳尔逊），这使得进一步使用基于研究问题的数据成为可能。因此，该项目的主要目标是建立一个模块化和可扩展的电子研究基础设施，用于转录和编辑历史游记，包括相关的研究数据，以便利用语义网和关联数据技术将旅程联系起来。这使得一个新的分析，以及可视化的方法来调查历史旅行。Franz Xaver Bronner关于他1810年从Aarau（瑞士）到伏尔加河上的喀山的旅程以及他1817年返回的未发表的报告可以作为该项目的案例研究。除了Bronner手稿的数字版之外，该项目还将准备一系列已经出版和数字化的旅行记录的语义版本。历史研究的附加值将通过基于这些语义游记版本的示例性分析和可视化来证明。相关的额外来源（例如 邮政路线图和历史城市图），并将其作为链接数据纳入研究基础设施的数据库。该项目的主要成果是开发了旅行报告和旅行路线的新型本体设计模式。特别重要的是开发一种新的注释方案，用于将标记的文本段落与相应的数据库记录互连。此外，该项目还提供了基于符号学的可视化概念，用于分析历史旅行。为了实现这些目标，该项目使用开源组件作为电子研究基础设施，并建立了标准，如TEI或DTABf-M和DTABf用于历史旅行记录的标记，CIDOC CRM与CRMgeo用于基于本体的旅行事件和行程建模。支持语义网和关联数据技术的现有建模和注释工具将作为组件进行调整和改进，因为它们可以直接包含在模块化电子研究基础设施中。基于语义准备的旅行报告的分析和可视化的前景将在最后一次会议上与来自历史，数字和计算历史，地理信息学和信息科学以及信息可视化的参与者进行探讨。

So far, digital editions of historical travelogues have hardly exhausted the potential of e-Research technologies. This is particularly true when digital editions are used as a data basis for further analysis and visualization of historical travelogues. The basic prerequisite for this operation is a ‘semantic’ edition beyond paper simulation (see Ted Nelson), which enables further use of data based on research questions. The main objective of the project is therefore to build a modular and extensible electronic research infrastructure for transcription and critical edition of historical travelogues, including relevant research data, to contextualize the journeys with Semantic Web and Linked Data technology. This enables a new analysis, as well as visualization approaches to investigate historical travel. The unpublished report by Franz Xaver Bronner on his journey from Aarau (Switzerland) to Kazan’ on the Volga in 1810 and his return in 1817 serves as a case study for the project. In addition to the digital edition of the Bronner manuscript, the project will prepare semantic editions of a selection of already published and digitized travelogues. The added value for historical research will be demonstrated by exemplary analyses and visualizations based on these semantic travelogue editions. Relevant additional sources (e. g. post route maps and historical city maps) will be prepared and integrated as linked data into the database of the research infrastructure. The central result of the project is the development of novel ontology design patterns for travel reports and travel routes. Particularly important is the development of a new annotation scheme for interlinking marked text passages with corresponding database records. Furthermore, the project delivers semiotically founded visualization concepts for the analysis of historical travel. To achieve these goals, the project uses open source components for the electronic research infrastructure and established standards such as TEI or DTABf-M and DTABf for the markup of historical travelogues and CIDOC CRM with CRMgeo for ontology-based modeling of travel events and itineraries. Existing modeling and annotation tools, which support Semantic Web and Linked Data technology, will be adapted and advanced as components, as they can be straightforwardly included in the modular e-Research infrastructure. The prospects for analysis and visualization based on the semantically prepared travel reports will be explored in a final conference with participants from history, digital and computational history, geoinformatics and information science as well as information visualization.