Annotation and data enrichment
This course introduces students to the principles and practices of annotation and scholarly data enrichment, combining theoretical foundations with hands-on TEI/XML work on literary texts.
Instructor: Sarah Lang
Course Overview
The course introduces students to annotation and data enrichment as core methods in the Digital Humanities. Students learn how textual materials can be enriched with machine-readable metadata and how annotation schemes can be developed to support scholarly research questions.
Working with literary corpora, participants engage in both basic annotation in TEI/XML (e.g. structural features, named entities, persons, and places) and more advanced semantic annotation tailored to specific interpretative questions. The course emphasises the relationship between annotation design, research objectives, and the interpretation of annotated data, enabling students to develop and apply their own annotation strategies to literary texts.
This course (originally titled Annotation und Erschließung) was taught at the University of Passau in Winter Semester 2018/2019 (Monstergeschichten und Gothic Horror Literatur), focusing on Gothic Horror literature, and Winter Semester 2019/2020 (Detektivgeschichten: Sherlock Holmes), focusing on Sherlock Holmes stories.