• Work Context

• Topic Map Creation: Schema & Population

• Analysis & Results

• New Measurements

• Other Visualizations

• Conclusions and future work

The Hispanic Baroque Project

• Mapping of Baroque:

• Methodology for Mapping Culture.

• Tools:

• Comparison tools.

• Description tools.

• Semantic annotation of Cultural Objects:

• Art, Text, History, Music...

• Model of knowledge representation.

• Semantic linking between data, concepts andsources.

• Schema layer vs. Data layers: different levelsof abstraction.

• “Layers as independent TMs” takes us to“independence of interpretation”.

• Calderón (Spain, 1600-1681).• Writer for the King and the Church.• Representative playwright of the Baroque.

• Casa con dos puertas(A House with two Doors)

• El sitio de Bredá(The Siege of Breda)

• El príncipe constante(The Constant Prince)

1640

• Casa con dos puertas (H2D)Love story

Family Honor / Trick

• El sitio de Bredá (SB)Historic drama

[Calderon’s contemporary Event]

• El príncipe constante (CP)Didactic drama

Honor & Religion

• Characters

• Places

• Objects

• Feelings

• Actions

• …

• From the plays (interpretation):

Señor don Luis, ya sabéisque estimo vuestras finezas,supuesto que lo merecenpor amorosas y vuestras;pero no puedo pagarlas,que eso han de hacer las estrellasy no hay de lo que no hacenquien las tome residencia; si lo que menos se hallaes hoy lo que más se preciaen la Corte, agradecedel desengaño, si quiera,por ser cosa que se hallacon dificultad en ella:quedad con Dios.(La Dama Duende, Jornada 1, Versos: 278-292)

Doña Beatriz

Don Luismostrar / to show

hablar de / to talk about

aprecio / esteem

corte / court

desengaño / unhappy love affair

hablar de / to talk about rechazar /

to reject

Context: Play

Ocurrence

• From “external” sources (they provide new contexts):• Geography: Ocaña is in Spain

• History: “La rendición de Bredá” was in 1625

• Mythology: Zeus is from Greek Mythology

• …

• Academic annotations (more contexts)

Characters:LisardoMarcelaDon FélixLaura

Topics:HonorTrickJealousyOcaña (Place)

Characters:Marqués EspínolaAlonso LadrónC. Enrique de VergasJustino de Nasau

Topics:HonorCourageStrategySurrender

Characters:Don FernandoMuleyMoorish KingDon Enrique

Topics:HonorBenevolenceDeathCeuta(Place)

Topics:HonorSpainCourageStrategyWarSurrenderJealousy

• New measurements: Co-occurrence

A and B are co-occurring in a fragment F(A co-ocF B) if there exist someassociations as1, as2 and some topics Cand D where A as1 C, and B as2 D in F.

Co-occurring grade of A and B:

Groc(A,B) = card{F: A co-ocF B}

Interpretation:If two topics occur in semantic relationsin the same fragments of the text a highnumber of times, they “must” have asemantic relation (at least, subjectivelyfor the author), and has a highphilological value for subsequentanalysis.

• Computing Co-occurrence in one play.

• TMs provide a comfortable tool to organizecomplex cultural information and generate thefirst levels of analysis.

• Topic Maps (semantic) vs. Text Mining (syntax).

• Representations show different approaches toanalysis and allow different interpretations ofthe data.

• Topic Maps, visualizations and analysis of allCalderón’s comedies.

• Extend this methodology to other culturalmanifestations, cultural epochs and cultural objectssuch as:

• Artwork, Music, Literature

• Development of a tool that incorporates the differentsteps necessaries for this methodology.

• Extraction of new semantic connections.• Development of measures allowing the comparison

between TMs (reflecting what we will understand as“distance” between cultural objects).

Tools:Data Base Manager: FileMakerTopic Map Manager: WandoraGraph Visualizer: yEdTimeLines: Simile TimelineMulti-Agent System: NetLogo

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