tag-Xplore

tag-Xplore

With tag-Xplore, we will design and develop an interactive data exploration system that enables curators of digital editions to understand commonalities and differences in the use of metadata tags in multiple digital editions, thus enhancing standardization processes.

Multiple digital editions adopt the TEI-XML format as a promising strategy to achieve standardization across editions and support the FAIR principles. However, the 585 TEI tags used to annotate the digital editions in practice are used heterogeneously within and across editions due to their complexity and ambiguity. This hinders connectivity and research potential of editions. Analyzing these tag inconsistencies across thousands of documents and multiple editions is a challenging task.

With tag-Xplore, we harness the potential of tags in digital editions through the design and development of a novel interactive visual data analysis system that enables users to systematically analyze and assess tag usage. Tag-Xplore will explicitly support both analyses within and across-digital editions, to support the standardization process. We study, explore and evaluate a corpus of 14 digital editions and we will establish a consortsium of multi-disciplinary researchers by organizing workshops and developing standards with our gained insights.