# Romantic Cartographies: Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840 Principal Investigator: Dr. Asko Nivala Collegium Fellow Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) University of Turku Contact: asko.nivala (at) utu.fi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5416-9667 ## Description _Romantic Cartographies_ (ROMCAR) project applied the methods of the digital humanities to research the spatiality in English and German Romanticism (1790–1840) by geoparsing locational data from an exceptionally big textual corpus of literature in English and German. The dataset produced by the project contains named entities identified from the texts and linked to DBpedia using [DBpedia spotlight](https://www.dbpedia-spotlight.org). Most texts are spatial implying a network of places. This was especially typical of the Romantic era (1790s–1840s) that was characterised by the growing interest in historical and natural sites. The ROMCAR project analysed the spatiality of Romantic texts by reconstructing the various maps they implied. The geoparsing methods developed during the project enabled extracting locational data from textual corpora. ROMCAR applies named-entity linking (NEL) to extract toponyms from Romantic fiction published in English and German. In addition to named-entity recognition (NER), NEL disambiguates the found entities by linking them with DBpedia. The results of text mining were visualised as superimposed maps, which produce new knowledge about the relationship of centre and periphery, or urban and natural areas in Romanticism. You can browse an interactive version of the dataset and see the results on various basemaps in [the project website](https://romcar.fi). ## Dataset The file format of the dataset is JSON. It includes the following files: ### gutenberg_nel_annotations.json The result of [DBpedia spotlight](https://www.dbpedia-spotlight.org) scan for a text corpus downloaded from the [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org). The support value refers to the confidence of the DBpedia Spotlight engine. ### gutenberg_texts.json The metadata of Project Gutenberg texts. ### gutenberg_authors.json The metadata of authors fot the NEL annotated Project Gutenberg texts. ### corvey_annotations.json The results of DBpedia Spotlight scan of [Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790–1840](https://www.gale.com/intl/c/ncco-european-literature-1790-1840-the-corvey-collection). The metadata of the texts is embedded to the scan results. ## Usage of the data The ROMCAR dataset has been published with CC-By Attribution 4.0 International license. This means that you are free to use this dataset, but you need to cite me: ### APA Nivala, A. (2023, May 25). Romantic Cartographies: Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840. Retrieved from osf.io/s3dvn ### MLA Nivala, Asko. “Romantic Cartographies: Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840.” OSF, 25 May 2023. Web. ### Chicago Nivala, Asko. 2023. “Romantic Cartographies: Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840.” OSF. May 25. osf.io/s3dvn. ### BibTex ``` @misc{Nivala_2023, title={Romantic Cartographies: Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840}, url={osf.io/s3dvn}, publisher={OSF}, author={Nivala, Asko}, year={2023}, month={May} } ``` ## Acknowledgements The project was funded by TIAS (2017–2019) and the Academy of Finland (2019-2022). The research was implemented in the department of Cultural History at the University of Turku. For more information, see: https://romcar.fi and https://askonivala.github.io/project/cartography