Modelling the Archipelago: Corfu as a Case Study for a Digital Edition of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum
Benedetta Bessi, Daniele Fusi, Anna Foka, Melina Tamiolaki, Eric Poehler
TL;DR
This paper discusses using a digital tool to create a digital edition of a 15th-century guide to Greek islands, focusing on Corfu.
Contribution
The paper introduces the use of the Cadmus tool for digitally reconstructing and presenting historical texts and maps.
Findings
The Cadmus tool was successfully applied to the text and map of Corfu from Buondelmonti’s work.
The frontend output demonstrates how historical texts and maps can be digitally preserved and presented.
The project provides insights into the potential of digital tools for historical literary and cartographic editions.
Abstract
The Liber Insularum by Cristoforo Buondelmonti can be considered the first guide to the Greek islands, each of them described by a textual paragraph and illustrated by color maps, in a format which gave rise to the new literary genre of Isolaria.” Mapping the Aegean: Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum” is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project aimed at the study of this book. This paper illustrates the application of Cadmus, a structured content management tool, to the creation of a digital edition of the Liber and to do this, we focus on the text and map of Corfu as a case study. After a historical introduction on the author and his work and the presentation of the project, we explain why we chose to use this tool and its main characteristics, and we offer a concrete example of its application to the material pertaining to the description of Corfu by showing its frontend output.
Genes, proteins, chemicals, diseases, species, mutations and cell lines named across the full text — each resolved to its canonical identifier and authoritative record.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHistorical Geography and Cartography · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies · Renaissance Literature and Culture