A spatio-temporal visual analysis tool for historical dictionaries
Alejandro Benito-Santos, Antonio G. Losada, Roberto Therón, Amelie Dorn, Melanie Seltmann, Eveline Wandl-Vogt · 2016
The exploreAT! project aims to give insights into the richness of the German language in the Austrian area through a rich and unique collection of dialect words of the Bavarian dialects recorded during the former Austrian-Hungariann Monarchy period and beyond. Originally collected by means of questionnaires, words were noted in handwriting on individual paper slips, covering topics from nature and food to religious festivities, etc. Once digitized, the full database contains around 3.5 million single data entries with an estimated 200,000 headwords, which requires substantial effort if the analysts want to access specific information from the data set. It should also be noted that the data presents a high heterogeneity in terms of its nature and origin (from questionnaires, collectors, scientists, spoken language, hand written notes, etc.), which calls for the creation of a homogeneous database containing all of the available information.