33.568, Software: Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel) - A Database for Medieval Spanish

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-568. Mon Feb 14 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.568, Software: Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel) - A Database for Medieval Spanish

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:02:29
From: Caroline Müller [dem.electronico at uni-rostock.de]
Subject: Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel) - A Database for Medieval Spanish

 
The Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico (DEMel) [URL:
https://demel.uni-rostock.de] offers a broad, international public free and
efficient access to an extensive data archive of medieval Spanish organized
according to semantic structure. The archive is based on the extensive and
hitherto unpublished data compiled during the preliminary work on the
Diccionario del Español Medieval by the late Prof. Dr. Bodo Müller
(Heidelberg). It uses a broad range of six hundred books or collections of
texts and documents dating from the 10th to the beginning of the 15th century
and contains about 700,000 record cards with the medieval word forms as well
as information on context, date, grammar, semantic use and etymology for
31,000 lemmata.

Since 2016 the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
DFG) has funded the „Cataloguing and Digitisation“ of the archive. From 2016
until 2020, Prof. Dr. Rafael Arnold (University of Rostock), Prof. Dr. Jutta
Langenbacher-Liebgott (University of Paderborn), Robert Zepf, M.St. and
Karsten Labahn (Rostock University Library) led the DEMel project; since then,
it has been directed by Prof. Dr. Rafael Arnold and Karsten Labahn. Currently,
the project coordinator Caroline Müller and the software developer Robert
Stephan continue working on the DEMel web portal until October 2022. 

At the beginning of the project, 865,000 index cards were scanned. To provide
an efficient search mechanism, a database schema was designed to enter a – so
far limited – selection of information (lemma, documented word form, source
and dating). Many students collaborated in the recording of the data and
gained thereby insight into academic work. At the same time, Robert Stephan
developed the web-based Spanish and German user interface for the DEMel web
portal, and optimized it to increase the usability and make the web portal an
effective research tool. Now, the archive of the Diccionario del Español
Medieval is accessible to the international research community and common
users as well.

Public access to the database is an act of paramount importance given the
absence of a complete historical dictionary of medieval Spanish. The diversity
of genres and registers (literary texts, religious and legal documents,
technical and scientific treatises on astronomy, medicine, botany etc.) will
enable interested researchers – Hispanists as well as others – to investigate
unexplored fields of the Spanish medieval lexicon and provide a valuable
source of research not only in Spanish studies, but also in Islamic and Jewish
studies, cultural studies, theology etc. 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography

Subject Language(s): Spanish, Old (osp)



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