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| During the second day, the first session was organized by Working Group 1, and devoted to the relations between the Huguenot intellectuals, who escaped from the threat of terror in their own lands. Analyses of the letters written by the Huguenots allow for sketching a geographical, social, scientific, and intellectual map of their connections. These analyses showed the features and nature of the community in question. It was unlimited in the geographic, religious and political sense, but egalitarian, scientific, and unbiased. Its members traveled around Europe, were interested in classical culture, and studied at European universities. The researchers tried to answer the following questions: who wrote the letters, when were they written, where were they written from, and what were they about. The authors of the presented papers sought to determine the relations between the place and the subjects of the letters, between their numbers and the times of writing. The language of the letters was analysed too: what words were used to describe other people, places, books, or problems. The researchers created a model of the Huguenot world. It was concentrated in Latin-speaking Europe, stretched beyond time, religion, and showed little interest towards politics. Such a world gave them a sense of stability, and created the institutional framework of their community. It was a perfect republic of minds. | During the second day, the first session was organized by Working Group 1, and devoted to the relations between the Huguenot intellectuals, who escaped from the threat of terror in their own lands. Analyses of the letters written by the Huguenots allow for sketching a geographical, social, scientific, and intellectual map of their connections. These analyses showed the features and nature of the community in question. It was unlimited in the geographic, religious and political sense, but egalitarian, scientific, and unbiased. Its members traveled around Europe, were interested in classical culture, and studied at European universities. The researchers tried to answer the following questions: who wrote the letters, when were they written, where were they written from, and what were they about. The authors of the presented papers sought to determine the relations between the place and the subjects of the letters, between their numbers and the times of writing. The language of the letters was analysed too: what words were used to describe other people, places, books, or problems. The researchers created a model of the Huguenot world. It was concentrated in Latin-speaking Europe, stretched beyond time, religion, and showed little interest towards politics. Such a world gave them a sense of stability, and created the institutional framework of their community. It was a perfect republic of minds. |
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| The next part of the conference presented the works of members of Working Group 2, and discussed the prosopografical database EMLO. Because no man lived in isolation, every act of human life occurred in time, space, and among other people. So, everybody always is an acting person in time, amongst events, and plays a particular role. Every person plays different roles both in the events and institutions, which he is connected with: a unary role, a binary role, or a role an event. The data shows the relations between all these elements. The researcher aimed to build a model on the basis of the chosen group of people. He determined the relations connecting them, which were not clearly seen at the start of the work. He seeks to show a man’s life as a sequence of the interlinked events from the date of his birth to the date of his death. | The next part of the conference presented the works of members of Working Group 2, and discussed the prosopografical database [[http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/|EMLO]]. Because no man lived in isolation, every act of human life occurred in time, space, and among other people. So, everybody always is an acting person in time, amongst events, and plays a particular role. Every person plays different roles both in the events and institutions, which he is connected with: a unary role, a binary role, or a role an event. The data shows the relations between all these elements. The researcher aimed to build a model on the basis of the chosen group of people. He determined the relations connecting them, which were not clearly seen at the start of the work. He seeks to show a man’s life as a sequence of the interlinked events from the date of his birth to the date of his death. |
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| Eero Hyvönen from Finland presented the database LOD ([[http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/sotasampo/en/|Linked Open Data – War Sampo]]) as a prosopographical research tool. The LOD includes the data related to the events of the Second World War that took place on the Finnish territory of Karelia. The database includes maps, names of soldiers (biographies, photographs, bibliographies), military detachments (maps of battles; where the information about archival materials can be found), names of fallen soldiers with obituaries, authentic photographs showing people and places. The database helps to understand Finnish history and propagates the idea of peace. It is part of the great Database Sampo that encompasses the topics of the Culture, Book, and Travel. | Eero Hyvönen from Finland presented the database LOD ([[http://seco.cs.aalto.fi/projects/sotasampo/en/|Linked Open Data – War Sampo]]) as a prosopographical research tool. The LOD includes the data related to the events of the Second World War that took place on the Finnish territory of Karelia. The database includes maps, names of soldiers (biographies, photographs, bibliographies), military detachments (maps of battles; where the information about archival materials can be found), names of fallen soldiers with obituaries, authentic photographs showing people and places. The database helps to understand Finnish history and propagates the idea of peace. It is part of the great Database Sampo that encompasses the topics of the Culture, Book, and Travel. |
| The third day of the conference was mainly dedicated to the methods of the visualization of the Republic of Letters and there were presented works of Working Group 3 and 6. Thomas Wallning from Austria presented the results of a three years’ work by team of researchers, who studied early modern correspondence. They analysed the vocabulary of letters, neologisms, regionalisms, the length of sentences, and the grammatical rules. They attempted to find answers to the following questions: how did the Latin language inform the writers about scholar-monks, and how the European languages were Latinized. | The third day of the conference was mainly dedicated to the methods of the visualization of the Republic of Letters and there were presented works of Working Group 3 and 6. Thomas Wallning from Austria presented the results of a three years’ work by team of researchers, who studied early modern correspondence. They analysed the vocabulary of letters, neologisms, regionalisms, the length of sentences, and the grammatical rules. They attempted to find answers to the following questions: how did the Latin language inform the writers about scholar-monks, and how the European languages were Latinized. |
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| Lucie Storchová, Vladimír Urbánek and Mihal Descalu, from the Czech Republic, presented methods of analysis of letters of Jan Amos Komensky. The researchers made a map of the intellectual circle of his correspondents, and showed the structures of sentences, the metaphors, and the emotional code of the writings. Statistics of the frequency of words, the number of words in sentence and in the paragraph, were presented too. | Lucie Storchová, Vladimír Urbánek and Mihal Descalu, from the Czech Republic, presented [[http://emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/?catalogue=jan-amos-comenius|methods of analysis of letters of Jan Amos Komensky]]. The researchers made a map of the intellectual circle of his correspondents, and showed the structures of sentences, the metaphors, and the emotional code of the writings. Statistics of the frequency of words, the number of words in sentence and in the paragraph, were presented too. |
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| Karen Hollewand delivered a very interesting presentation entitled “Keywords, text and Beverland”. The researcher demonstrated the role of keywords in the process of selecting data, and in the analysis of correspondence. Keywords help to show the specific vocabulary of the author and the limited sphere, in which they are used. They help us to understand and identify the specific language and style of the author. | Karen Hollewand delivered a very interesting presentation entitled “Keywords, text and Beverland”. The researcher demonstrated the role of keywords in the process of selecting data, and in the analysis of correspondence. Keywords help to show the specific vocabulary of the author and the limited sphere, in which they are used. They help us to understand and identify the specific language and style of the author. |
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| Anna Skolimowska, from Poland, presented the results of her work on the Dantiscus Project. Together with other researchers, she worked on the correspondence of Dantiscus, and prepared two databases: Corpus Epistolarum and Corpus JD – texts and correspondence. The source material was published too. | Anna Skolimowska, from Poland, presented the results of her work on the [[http://dantiscus.al.uw.edu.pl/|Dantiscus Project]]. Together with other researchers, she worked on the correspondence of Dantiscus, and prepared two databases: Corpus Epistolarum and Corpus JD – texts and correspondence. The source material was published too. |
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| The numerous methods of visualization of the data was the next subject of the second day of the conference. The discussion focused on cooperation between the researcher and the designer of visualization. The questions: how to design the role of designer in the humanities, how to turn ideas into the hypothesis, and how to visualize them using the graph were posed. | The numerous methods of visualization of the data was the next subject of the second day of the conference. The discussion focused on cooperation between the researcher and the designer of visualization. The questions: how to design the role of designer in the humanities, how to turn ideas into the hypothesis, and how to visualize them using the graph were posed. |
