“O where is Romeo, saw you him to day?”: Using sonification and visualization in the exploration of Early Modern English literature metadata

Conference item : Poster

We present work in progress concerning the exploration of metadata using visualization and sonification using data from the Bodleian Libraries’ First Folio project. We turned a visualization of gender and role metadata from the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) metadata, into sonifications. This provides exploratory analysis to understand the gender balance in the place through different tones and sounds. We also present work on looking at status of the listener using the type of speech that is marked up in Hamlet. We argue that sound is a passive form of analysis that can be used with other techniques to provide a novel exploratory analysis of textual metadata as part of a student project.

Authors: Emsley, I

• Event title: Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School 2016
• Event location: St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK
• Event website: https://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss-2016
• Event start date: 2016-07-04
• Event end date: 2016-07-08
• Language: English
• Keywords: Shakespeare; sonification
• Subtype: Poster