Ray will be in Chicago on April 3rd to present at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual conference. The paper is called “A Knowledgebase Approach to an Edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” and it will be presented at the session New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III: Bibliography, Edition, Knowledgebase.
Abstract:
Toward an edition of the Sonnets for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, we’ve embarked on creating an electronic knowledgebase that will allow the navigation of critical materials published from 1972 to the present. The resulting knowledge-base is responsive to full-text electronic searches and serves as both a useful scholarly resource in itself (allowing those involved in our project to uncover swiftly, for example, all references to a particular sonnet in a large critical corpus) and a prototype for larger electronic resources; the techniques we uncover should be scaleable to match the requirements of various scopes of research area. While the full text database cannot be shared as a resource, we will be exploring a number of output formats that could be shared with a larger research community.
See the conference program here.