Andreas
Thesaurus

Information

The Andreas Thesaurus, created by Thijs Porck, 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 using Evoke’s Alignment Tool (developed by Sander Stolk), in combination with the published glossary of the following Andreas edition:

  • Richard North and Michael D. J. Bintley, eds., Andreas: An Edition (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016)

Work on this dataset was supported by the LUCAS Extra Resources Open Call-II Grant 2020, awarded by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

This dataset is a collective effort. The author would like to thank student assistant Lucas Gahrmann, who made most of the Linked Data annotations which were then checked and supplemented by the creator, and Sander Stolk, whose Alignment Tool and web application Evoke made this dataset possible. All mistakes and inconsistencies are the creator’s.

The rationale behind this dataset is described in:

  • Thijs Porck, “Onomasiological Profiles of Old English Texts: Analysing the Vocabulary of Beowulf, Andreas and the Old English Martyrology through Linguistic Linked Data”, 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), 359–383. doi: 10.1163/18756719-12340236

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

Version

The current version of the Andreas Thesaurus is version 1.0, published on November 2nd, 2021.

How to cite

If you use the Andreas Thesaurus, please cite it as follows:

  • Thijs Porck, Andreas Thesaurus, version 1.0 (2 Nov., 2021), made available via Evoke, http://evoke.ullet.net/content/andreas/ .

Access

This dataset has been made available in Evoke for exploration.
A download of the full dataset can be retrieved from the DataverseNL repository here.


Explore in Evoke alongside A Thesaurus of Old English

License

The Andreas Thesaurus has been made available under the CC-BY-SA license.