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The Old English Martyrology 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 Old English Martyrology edition:

• Christine Rauer, ed., The Old English Martyrology (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013)

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:

• 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