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Digital Humanities (DH)has become a field of interest in Spain, especially in the last decade, despite having arrived later than in most other European countries. In fact, it has become a leading trend in research, either as a field of study and as a preferential financing topic. At the same time, because of its novelty, it is now under scrutiny by the research community and government institutions because neither the return of investment is clear nor the role that Spanish researchers can play within European-wide research infrastructures, such as DARIAH. In order to provide the global community of scholars working in this field with a greater understanding of the current Spanish scenario, LINHD (Laboratorio de Innovación de Humanidades Digitales -UNED) promoted a research on the evolution of DHin Spain in the last 25 years, using a quantitative approach. The objective of the study was to identify researchers in the field of DH and to explore their financing, institutional affiliations, research topics, and developed resources. Similar initiatives have been promoted in the past, producing internationally or regionally focused maps1, some of them still available online, with differences ranging from the geographical coverage to the types of data mapped. Other overviews on the subject have chosen a more qualitative approach, focused on identifying the most relevant steps in the evolution and consolidation of this research topic in the Iberian country2, still largely in place.

The development of the network of ontologies of the ERC POSTDATA Project brought to lightsome deficiencies in terms of completeness in the existing corpora. To tackle the issue in the realm of the Spanish poetic tradition, our approach consisted in designing a set of tools that any scholar could use to automatically enrich the analysis of Spanish poetry. The effort crystallized in the PoetryLab, an extensible open-source toolkit for syllabification, scansion, enjambment detection, rhyme detection, and historical named entity recognition for Spanish poetry. We designed the system to be interoperable, compliant with the project ontologies, easy to use by tech-savvy and non-expert researchers, and requiring minimal maintenance and setup. Furthermore, we pro-pose the integration of the PoetryLab as core functionality in the tool catalog of CLARIN for Spanish poetry.

The development of the network of ontologies of the ERC POSTDATA Project brought to light some deficiencies in terms of completeness in the existing corpora. To tackle the issue in the realm of the Spanish poetic tradition, our approach consisted in designing a set of tools that any scholar could use to automatically enrich the analysis of Spanish poetry. The effort crystallized in the PoetryLab, an extensible open-source toolkit for syllabification, scansion, enjambment detection, rhyme detection, and historical named entity recognition for Spanish poetry. We designed the system to be interoperable, compliant with the project ontologies, easy to use by tech-savvy and non-expert researchers, and requiring minimal maintenance and setup. Furthermore, we propose the integration of the PoetryLab as a core functionality in the tool catalog of CLARIN for Spanish poetry.

Since ancient times, cultures have maintained oral traditions by sharing stories in poetic form (Francis 2017). Although different traditions treat poetry according to their own thinking frameworks, most of them perform some sort of analysis that requires the extraction of stress patterns of lines or verses. Scansion, as this procedure is broadly referred to, is usually language dependent. On the assumption that modern context-dependent language models are able to retain the structural properties of text, this paper explores whether metrical patterns are part of the information encoded in the embedding spaces of text.

Digital Humanities have led to new, quantitative and more objective as well as scientific approaches to studying the literary record. The case of Poetry is a special one, as there are much less quantitative studies and tools available for this particular genre. In this sense, the process of obtaining texts and information from available poetic corpora from the Web is a hard and time-consuming one.

The transmission of text in poetic form is aquasi-universalaspect in the oral tradition of every culture. The study of the poetic features of text, especially their rhythmic structure when forming verses, pertains to the different traditions, whose scholars established the rules that might govern poetry. Within this context, the POSTDATA Projectformalized a network of ontologies able to express any poetic expression and its analysis at the European level, enabling scholars all over Europe to interchange their data using Linked Open Data. However, varied research interests result in corpora that might not share the same facets of analysis. To alleviate this concern and foster the completeness of the interchanged corpora, our team set to build a software toolkit to assist in the analysis of poetry. This paper introducesPoetryLab, an extensible open-source toolkit for syllabification, scansion (extraction of stress patterns), enjambment detection (syntactical units split in two lines), rhyme detection, and historical named entity recognition for Spanish poetry. Our toolkit achieves the state of the art performance in the tasks for which reproducible alternatives exist.&nbsp

The objective of this study was to provide the global community of interested scholars with an updated understanding of Digital Humanities in Spain, in terms of researchers and research centres, disciplines involved and research topics of interest, trends in digital resources development, main funding bodies and the evolution of their investment since the early nineties. One of the characteristics that differentiates this study from previous approaches is the information used to carry out the research. It combines large datasets of publicly available data from trusted sources with a handpicked selection of records grouping information scattered over the Web. Most of the evidence detected by other studies has been numerically confirmed. At the same time, the new metrics and values established constitute a reference base for monitoring the future evolution of the discipline and thus favour comparisons. Half of the researchers were found to be affiliated to only nine institutions, whereas the other half of them were scattered across 84 locations. Department affiliation showed a varied pattern of the different degrees of specialization in each institution. Although the major historic role played by Philology was confirmed, the rising interest of other areas of the Humanities and Social Science produces a wider picture, which helped to identify five large clusters of research topics, centred on major disciplines. The quantitative analysis of funding, a dimension almost unexplored in the Humanities, proved to be a valuable way to assess the discipline and its historical evolution. In fact, it revealed interesting trends that led to our proposal of a three-phase periodization in the consolidation of Digital Humanities in Spain.

This paper stems from the analysis of multiple poetic resources that were available on-line, as well as the results of methodological discussions with scholars of European Literature. The goal was to retrieve the informational needs of all these different sources in order to build a common data model for European Poetry. Thus, by implementing a reverse engineering method, we have created the Domain Model for European Poetry, which is an important milestone for making existent poetry resources interoperable. In this paper, we will present some of the challengeswe encountered while conceptualizing the information relevant to poetic analysisand how we have worked around them.

POSTDATA focused on poetry analysis, the publication of poetic resources and their exploration, applying Digital Humanities methods. This is a trans-domain project, as it combines traditional philological studies with digital humanities technologies and tools. It is focused on poetry analysis (rhythm, accent, typology) analyzing and comparing databases of poetic repertories,analysingTEI-XML documents and databases that described poetic resources. The project is combining semantic web technologies to represent and publish the information as Linked Open Data in order to make theaforementioned resourcesinteroperable, for a field, poetry, that has never been analyzed as a standardized and interoperable area. POSTDATA is conceived as a digital humanities project that uses the richest poetry collections from 16 languages and literary traditions in combination with the most updated technologies: the construction ofanontology, Semantic Engineering Modelling, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence, applying automation technologies and data mining to non-standard literary texts (i.e. Medieval Spanish) Poetry Lab combines the application of Artificial Intelligence and NLP technologies with the creation of poetic corpora in different languages producing different tools and innovative applications, such as our geolocation tool for Spanish Medieval textsHisMeTag. On the other hand, the project has made great progress in the automatic detection of enjambment, a difficult prosodic phenomenon toanalyseand understand even from the literary point of view.

Poetry Lab Poster presented at CLARIN Annual Conference 2018 in Pisa, Italy

International audience; El poster presenta ANJA, una interfaz gráfica para dar acceso a nuestra herramienta de detección automática del encabalgamiento en español, que fue implementada y evaluada en trabajos anteriores. La interfaz permite obtener resultados de detección de encabalgamiento y visualizarlos en línea o exportados en un formato delimitado. La interfaz está disponible en http://prf1.org/anja/index/

Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (UNED) has developed Entorno Virtual de Investigación del Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (EVI-LINHD), the first virtual research environment devoted mainly to Spanish speakers interested in digital scholarly edition. EVI-LINHD combines different open-source software for developing a complete digital project: (1) a Webbased application markup tool-TEIscribe-combined with an eXistdb solution and a TEIPublisher platform, (2) Omeka for digital libraries, and (3) WordPress for simple Web pages. All these instances are linked to a local installation of the LINDAT/Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) digital repository. LINDAT/CLARIN allows EVI-LINHD users to have their projects deposited and stored safely. Thanks to this solution, EVI-LINHD projects also improve their visibility. The specific metadata profile used in the repository is based on Dublin Core, and it is enriched with the Spanish translation of DARIAH's Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities. Fil: González Blanco, Elena. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; España Fil: Martinez Cantón, Clara. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; España Fil: del Rio, María Gimena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; Argentina Fil: Ros, Salvador. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; Argentina Fil: Pastor, Rafael. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; Argentina Fil: Robles Gómez, Antonio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; Argentina Fil: Caminero, Agustín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; Argentina Fil: Platas, María Luisa Díez. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; Argentina Fil: del Olmo, Álvaro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; Argentina Fil: Urízar, Miguel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual; Argentina

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This lighting talk presents the structure and design of the VRE of LINHD, the Digital Innovation Lab at UNED (http://linhd.uned.es), and the first Digital Humanities Center in Spain. EVILINHD focuses on the possibilities of a collaborative environment for (profane or advanced) DH Scholars.

This paper describes the creation of a poetic ontology in order to use it as a basis to link different databases and projects working on metrics and poetry. It has been built on the model of the Spanish digital repertoire ReMetCa, but its aim is to be enlarged and improved in order to fit under every poetic system. The conceptual semantic model, written in OWL, includes classes and metadata from standard ontological models related to humanities fields (such as CIDOC or Dublin Core), and adds specific elements and properties to describe poetic phenomena. Its final objective is to interconnect, reuse and locate data disseminated through poetic repertoires, in order to boost interoperability among them. This research is being developed thanks to the project Poetry Standarization and Linked Open Data:POSTDATA, the Starting Grant ERC-2015-STG-679528, and has been presented at International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).

Standardization has become an increasingly important process in relation to academic research, as it provides a better way for exchanging information. Humanities and cultural studies have followed, however, a heterogeneous path in which creativity and tradition play an essential role. Comparative studies in literature, and especially poetry, are a clear example of this eclectic situation. There is not a uniform academic approach to analyze, classify or study the different poetic manifestations. Things get even worse when comparing poetry schools from different languages and periods. The result of this uncoordinated evolution is a bunch of varied terminologies that means to explain analogous metrical phenomena through the different poetic systems whose correspondences have been hardly studied (González-Blanco and Sélaf, 2014).

El LINHD, Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales ( http://linhd.uned.es/), es un centro de investigación en Humanidades Digitales de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) de Madrid que funciona como marco de innovación, investigación, asesoría y formación a investigadores y proyectos en español para España y Latinoamérica. La misión del LINHD es redefinir la forma de trabajar en Humanidades desde la innovación y las tecnología s en el marco de la nueva sociedad de la información. Así, LINHD es, en primer lugar, un nodo de g estión y de reunión de la información sobre Humanidades Digitales en Español, y es, asimismo, un espaci o que ofrece cursos y herramientas para la formación en Humanidades Digitales. La creac ión de este espacio nos obliga a reflexionar sobre los nuevos espacios de comunicación y formac ión que en los últimos años han debido abrir espacios académicos como las universidades -los labs- en la necesidad de redefinir competencias de los estudiantes e investigadores del á mbito de las Humanidades.

The Text Encoding initiative is conceived as a standard system designed to let interoperability between different projects working on analogous topics. However, interoperability is sometimes not easy to reach due to the different interpretation of tags made by each project or group. Given the variety of tags, there are several concepts that can be easily identified for many projects, such as or , which referent is pretty clear and recognizable. There are some other tags, however, which can experience multiple interpretations, limited by the content of the attributes that modify them.

The technology of semantic web seems to be a suitable environment to offer solutions for linking poetic repertoires that belong to different European traditions and literatures (González-Blanco & Sélaf 2013)1. The problem of linking poetic repertoires is not simple, as there are not only technical issues involved, but also conceptual and terminological problems: each repertoire belongs to its own poetical tradition and each tradition has developed its own analytical terminology for years in a different and independent way. The result of this uncoordinated evolution is a bunch of varied terminologies to explain analogous metrical phenomena through the different poetic systems whose correspondences have been hardly studied.