The speaker speaks on site.
Abstract:
Ulric Schmidl was one of the first European explorers to write and publish the account of his journey in the territories that would later be part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. His travel diary, first published in German in 1567, not only provided insight into the indigenous populations of the region, their customs, and their interactions with European explorers, but also illuminated the internal conflicts within the conquest expeditions.
The objective of the Digital Humanities Laboratory at CONICET is to produce a digital tool for the Spanish edition of Schmidl's travels. This project aims at creating a digital edition under the framework of minimal computing, using XML-TEI standards for annotation, creating a controlled vocabulary of the various terminologies present in the text and developing a georeferenced map of the journey.
In this conference, the current state of the project will be presented, along with a brief history of its inception, the challenges encountered during its development, and a broad overview of future activities and objectives.
Short bio:
Julián Spinelli is a historian who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, specializing in Digital Humanities through UCES. He is a collaborator at the Digital Humanities Laboratory of CONICET, where he participates in various Digital Humanities projects. Currently, he is serving as a visiting researcher in the project “Computational Approaches to Narrative Space in 19th and 20th Century Novels” (CANSpiN) at the University of Rostock.