Entering the thick forest of intercultural transmission of motifs Emily Franzini & Marco Büchler. University of Geneva, January 2016

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1 Entering the thick forest of intercultural transmission of motifs Emily Franzini & Marco Büchler University of Geneva, January 2016

2 Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm s digital trail Kinder- und Hausmärchen 1812, 1819, 1837, 1840, 1843, 1850, 1857 Deutsches Wörterbuch ,000 letters Marburg Staatsarchiv & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2

3 7 editions of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen from 1812 to 1857 Why the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm? Impact on society Big Data Global scope needs an international team (8 nationalities, 13 languages spoken) Interdisciplinary 3

4 What are we working on? Investigating measurable primitives Cultural Studies: tracing MEMES Literature: tracing MOTIFS Linguistics: tracing PATTERNS Computer Science: tracing MINUTIAE 4

5 Our Projects Database of tale Motifs 5

6 Database of tale Motifs Motif = minimal thematic unit[s] (Prince s Dictionary of Narratology) Objective = build a database + interface of the motifs of tales, crossing the language barrier Why? Investigate&record primitives and their changes Nothing like it exists Humanities: research in folklore Computer Science: algorithmic improvements - sharpening the understanding of why and how a text is reused 6

7 Database of tale Motifs Motif = minimal thematic unit[s] (Prince s Dictionary of Narratology) Snow White 7

8 Database of tale Motifs Italian German Which tales? Snow White Puss in Boots The Fisherman and his Wife Russian Iranian French English Rumanian Spanish 8

9 Database of tale Motifs Aarne-Thompson (AT) Motif-Index Motif = minimal thematic unit[s] (Prince s Dictionary of Narratology) 9

10 Database of tale Motifs Motif = minimal thematic unit[s] (Prince s Dictionary of Narratology) 10

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12 Database of tale Motifs GRAPH DATABASE (RDF) = VIRTUOSO QUERY LANGUAGE = SPARQL 12

13 Database of motifs Open Search Search by: Title of tale - Motif n.1 Stepmother Motif n.2 - Author - VIAF number - Language - Results: 7 Results Tale: Bella Venezia Author: Calvino, Italo Collection: Fiabe Italiane Date: 1956 VIAF: Motif: Stepmother (P282) Url: Tale: Schneewittchen Author: Gebrüder Grimm Collection: Kinder- und Hausmärchen Date: 1819 VIAF: Motif: Stepmother (P282) Url: Tale: Schneewittchen Author: Gebrüder Grimm Collection: Kinder- und Hausmärchen Date: 1837 VIAF: Motif: Stepmother (P282) Url: Date - 13

14 What are we working on? Investigating measurable primitives Cultural Studies: tracing MEMES Literature: tracing MOTIFS Linguistics: tracing PATTERNS Computer Science: tracing MINUTIAE 14

15 Typical computer scientists expectation: plagiarism 15

16 Humanists' expectation: oversimplification 16

17 ACID for the Digital Humanities: Acceptance Complexity Interoperability Diversity 17

18 ACID for the Digital Humanities Diversity (Reuse Types) Stability Purpose Size of text reuse Classification Degree of distribution Written and oral transmission 18

19 ACID for the Digital Humanities Diversity (Reuse Types) 19

20 TRACER 6 steps 20

21 ACID for the Digital Humanities Complexity 21

22 ACID for the Digital Humanities Interoperability 22

23 ACID for the Digital Humanities Acceptance I 23

24 ACID for the Digital Humanities Acceptance II How to be accepted by humanists if text mining is a black box, that can't be looked into? 24

25 ACID for the Digital Humanities Acceptance III Transparency: How to provide user-friendly insights into complex mining techniques and machine learning? 25

26 ACID for the Digital Humanities Acceptance IV 26

27 ACID for the Digital Humanities Acceptance V 27

28 ACID for the Digital Humanities Acceptance VI 28

29 ACID for the Digital Humanities Acceptance VII 29

30 Further topics Evaluation of text reuse: manual or automatic Research on the measurable primitives including eye-tracking and electroencephalogram Scaling at any size 30

31 Copying from one is plagiarism, copying from many. is research. -Wilson Mitzner- 31