Reception Reader: Exploring Text Reuse in Early Modern British Publications

David Rosson; Eetu Mäkelä; Ville Vaara; Ananth Mahadevan; Yann Ryan; Mikko Tolonen

doi:10.5334/johd.101

Journal of Open Humanities Data (Apr 2023)

Reception Reader: Exploring Text Reuse in Early Modern British Publications

David Rosson,
Eetu Mäkelä,
Ville Vaara,
Ananth Mahadevan,
Yann Ryan,
Mikko Tolonen

Affiliations

David Rosson: ORCiD; Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki
Eetu Mäkelä: ORCiD; Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki
Ville Vaara: ORCiD; Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki
Ananth Mahadevan: ORCiD; Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki
Yann Ryan: ORCiD; Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki
Mikko Tolonen: ORCiD; Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.101
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9
pp. 5 – 5

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The Reception Reader is a web tool for studying text reuse in the Early English Books Online (EEBO-TCP) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) data. Users can: 1) explore a visual overview of the reception of a work, or its incoming connections, across time based on shared text segments, 2) interactively survey the details of connected documents, and 3) examine the context of reused text for “close reading”. We show examples of how the tool streamlines research and exploration tasks, and discuss the utility and limitations of the user interface along with its current data sources.

Published in Journal of Open Humanities Data

ISSN: 2059-481X (Online)
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: General Works: History of scholarship and learning. The humanities; Language and Literature
Website: https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/

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