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MEDEA. Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts MEDEA. Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts Veranstalter: Austrian Centre for Digital Hu-
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Korchmina, Elena Sergeevna |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | The MEDEA-Project, supported by the NEHDFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program, aims at connecting account books, sources available to us from various times and spaces, with 21st century technology. As these accounts offer scholars the unparalleled option to analyze economic behavior both macroand microstructurally, the projects presented at the first MEDEA-conference at the University of Regensburg, which took place October 22nd to 24th, 2015 organized by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Graz, the University of Regensburg and Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and their representatives Georg Vogeler, Kathryn Tomasek, Kathrin Pindl, and Mark Spoerer paved the way to access these vital data via assembling an international group of researchers mirroring the width of different accounts and approaches to process them digitally – to present their current encoding-projects. JAMES CUMMINGS (Oxford) set the scene for the conference by introducing the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), ergo the basic methods to encode financial records, applied to the Stationers' Register, English accounts dating back as far as 1577 which illustrate ownership of the rights to print texts. The digitization fulfilled by the Stationers' Register Online (SRO) project renders full-text transcriptions, yet has to overcome issues like converting historical currency into modern values. His second project, the Records of Early English Drama (REED), analyzes the environment of Shakespeare and his contemporaries by editing and describing historical documents revolving around means of entertainment in the period spanning from the Middle Ages to 1642. In parallel to the SRO, Cunnings also described the problems of encoding. SYD BAUMAN (Boston) rounded out the first panel. The subsequent panel opened with BEN W. BRUMFIELD and ANNA S. AGBE-DAVIES's (both Chapel Hill, NC) presentation on „Encoding Account Books Relating to Slavery in the U.S. South.“ In her talk about „The Practice of Personal Finance and the Problem of Debt among the Noble Elite in Eighteenth-Century Russia,“ ELENA S. KORCHMINA (Moscow), illustrated her take on a more detailed exploration of debt crisis of the Russian nobility at the end of the 18th century. By analyzing various types of financial records, which then appeared for the first time in Russia, from account books to financial calculations, ergo the nobility's means to cope with economic upheavals and novelties, e.g. banks, and order own finances these rapidly changing surroundings, Korchmina discloses the nobility's behavior of weighing its personal income and expenditure, thus attempting to avoid bankruptcy. Titled „Analyzing Productivity and Rationality on the Basis of Account Books – Westphalia and Rhineland 1650-1850,“ FRIEDERIKE SCHOLTEN ́s (Münster) presentation focused on the German feudal system, its commercially organized manorial estates and their tasks of leasing land and trading grain. Account books bequeathed by these estates and recently encoded offered the steppingstone into two projects she introduced, the first of which investigates factor land, leases and land prices, and thus tries to works out agricultural productivity. Her other project complements the first by focusing on the then displayed rationality in early modern regional trade. PETER RAUSCHER and ANDREA SERLES (both Vienna) further extended the diversified field of account books by presenting their database fed with formerly non-processible data – due to its sheer mass on the Danube trade in the 17th and 18th century, which offers new insights into commercial networks, goods transported, but also habits of consumption. They thoroughly expanded prior research, which mainly concentrated on single years, via their universal database, allowing the possibility to backtrace economic changes over time. Presenting the differences in account books |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/index.asp?id=6676&pn=tagungsberichte&type=tagungsberichte&view=pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2727/files/2015/09/ProgrammeMEDEARegensburg6.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
