„To See or Not to See“ – an Interactive Tool for the Visualization and Analysis of Shakespeare Plays by Thomas Wilhelm, Manuel Burghardt, and Christian Wolff.
Abstract:
In this article we present a web-based tool for the visualization and analysis of quantitative characteristics of Shakespeare plays. We use resources from the Folger Digital Texts Library 1 as input data for our tool. The Folger Shakespeare texts are annotated with structural markup from the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 2. Our tool interactively visualizes which character says what and how much at a particular point in time, allowing customized interpretations of Shakespeare plays on the basis of quantitative aspects, without having to care about technical hurdles such as markup or programming languages.
I found the remarkable web tool described in this paper at: http://www.thomaswilhelm.eu/shakespeare/output/hamlet.html.
You can easily change plays (menu, top left) but note that “download source” refers to the processed plays themselves, not the XSL/T code that transformed the TEI markup. I think all the display code is JavaScript/CSS so you can scrape that from the webpage. I am more interested in the XSL/T applied to the original markup.
In the paper the authors say that plays may have over “5000 lines of code” for their transformation with XSL/T.
I am very curious if translating the XSL/T code into XQuery would reduce the amount of code required?
I recently re-wrote the XSLT code for the W3C Bibliography Generator, limited to Recommendations, and the XQuery code was far shorter than the XSLT used by the W3C.
Look for a post on the XQuery I wrote for the W3C bibliography on Monday, 19 October 2015.
If you decide to cite this article:
Wilhelm, T., Burghardt, M. & Wolff, C. (2013). “To See or Not to See” – An Interactive Tool for the Visualization and Analysis of Shakespeare Plays. In Franken-Wendelstorf, R., Lindinger, E. & Sieck J. (eds): Kultur und Informatik – Visual Worlds & Interactive Spaces, Berlin (pp. 175-185). Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch.
Two of the resources mentioned in the article: