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The dataset Ælfrician Vocabulary, created by Amos van Baalen, is a set of Linked Data annotations that adhere to the Web Annotation standard of W3C; the annotations reference the IRIs of A Thesaurus of Old English (see here). The dataset can be browsed as a textual thesaurus within the web application Evoke.

The Linked Data annotations were made manually in Evoke (developed by Sander Stolk). The lemmata that formed the basis for this dataset were primarily extracted from the Dictionary of Old English:

• Cameron, A., A. Crandell Amos, A. diPaolo Healey, et al., eds. Dictionary of Old English: A to I online (Toronto: Dictionary of Old English Project, 2018). http://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doe/

Other lemmata were extracted from prior scholarship into Ælfric’s vocabulary. These sources are given in the following article, which also describes the rationale behind this dataset, as well as the labels used in this dataset:

• Amos van Baalen, “Identifying, Categorising and Exploring ‘Ælfrician’ Vocabulary Using the Dictionary of Old English, A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke”, in Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Digital Humanities Approach with A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke, eds. Thijs Porck and Sander Stolk, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 81: 3–4 (2021), 384–441. doi: 10.1163/18756719-12340237

This dataset is a collective effort. I would like to thank student assistant Lucas Gahrmann, for his assistance with a substantial number of the Linked Data annotations; Thijs Porck, for his help with categorising the data; and Sander Stolk, whose web application Evoke made this dataset possible. All mistakes and inconsistencies are my own.

The workings of Evoke and its Alignment Tool are described in:

• Sander Stolk, “Evoke: Exploring and Extending A Thesaurus of Old English using a Linked Data Approach”, in Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Digital Humanities Approach with A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke, eds. Thijs Porck and Sander Stolk, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 81: 3–4 (2021), 318–358. doi: 10.1163/18756719-12340235