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The home page gives an overview of the data: the number of catalogued reception testimonies, of the recorded authors, of the texts analysed as examples, and of the established intertextual relationships – this also includes ›simple‹ intertextual relationships between works not analysed in detail and Sappho’s work as a whole. The time span of the reception testimonies and the total number of triples are also given.

From the home page, four entry points into the data are offered: »Reception Testimonies« leads to the catalogue of all known German-language literary reception testimonies of Sappho; »Statistics« offers sample statistical analyses of the literary reception of Sappho; »Network Visualization« opens up the data as an interactive network; »Data« leads directly to the open-access data on GitHub, i.e. not actually into the website itself, but to an external repository.

The footer of every page notes when the website was last updated. This note serves the better reproducibility of the data.

»Project«

About the Project: Here you will find a project description as well as information on the project status and the data, a suggested citation, biographical information, contact options, an acknowledgements section and a funding note.

Publications: This page brings together a selection of project-related publications and presentations.

Bibliography: This page contains a select bibliography on the literary reception of Sappho.

Primary Texts: This mainly points out that no primary texts are offered on the website; where available, however, links to digitized copies are given. It also refers to the volume Sappho. Texte zur literarischen Rezeption im deutschsprachigen Raum (2023), from which the reception testimonies analysed as examples are taken.

»Texts«

Sappho Fragments: For all fragments edited in Andreas Bagordo’s bilingual edition based on the text-critical edition by Eva-Maria Voigt (2009), individual pages are available. These contain the internal ID, the Wikidata ID, a type designation (work) and the author (Sappho), as well as the results of the exemplary analysis in the form of a tabular overview of the phenomena found (motifs, topics etc.) and the intertextual relationships of the respective fragment. E.g.: Fragment 1 Voigt.

Reception Testimonies: The collected reception testimonies can be accessed as a whole or by genre (all, prose, poetic, dramatic and other – including comics). Each of these pages contains a table and simple statistical analyses at the top, with the exception of »Other Reception Testimonies«, where the data basis is simply too small. On the page »All Reception Testimonies« there is an overview of the genre distribution; on all pages there is a temporal and a spatial statistic showing when and where reception testimonies were published.

Where available, the tables list the following information: year of creation, year of publication or performance, title, the text it is contained in (if applicable), author, genre (omitted on the genre subpages), place of publication or performance, and publisher/printer. Wikidata IDs are also provided for many entities, currently complete for all authors (except fan-fiction authors), places and publishers/printers, but not yet consistently for the remaining fields. The table can be searched using the field at the top left; at the top right it can be downloaded as an Excel file or its entire content copied. All columns can be individually searched and sorted. Clicking on the text in »Title«, »Contained In«, »Author«, »Place of Publication/Performance« or »Publisher/Printer« leads to the respective individual page. Clicking on the text in »Genre« leads to the respective specific catalogue.

Individual Pages:

  • For works, the following information may appear: a cover image from Wikimedia, an internal ID, a Wikidata ID, a type designation (work), an author, a genre, a year of creation, a year of publication or performance, a place of publication, a publisher/printer, the text it is contained in, and a link to a digitized copy. E.g.: Erinna an Sappho.
  • For authors, a portrait image from Wikimedia, an internal ID, a Wikidata ID, a type designation (author), birth and death dates from Wikidata, and a list of the recorded works with links to them can be found, where available. E.g.: Friederike Mayröcker.
  • For places, an OpenStreetMap map, an internal ID, a Wikidata ID, a type designation (place of publication/performance) and a list of the associated works may appear, where available. E.g.: Berlin.
  • For publishers and printers, an internal ID, a Wikidata ID, a type designation (publisher/printer) and the associated works are recorded. E.g.: Aufbau Verlag.

»Analysis«

Data Model:

  • Ontology: Here, the documentation of the applied ontology, created with pyLODE, is linked.
  • Alignments: Here you will find a network visualization of the ontology alignments carried out.
  • Vocabulary: Here the applied controlled vocabulary is accessible. It contains definitions of the individual concepts (motif, topic etc.) as well as an expandable list view of the concepts with their SKOS relationships, occurrences and IDs.

Notes on the Analysis: Here the methodological approach taken in the analysis is set out, and the reception testimonies analysed as examples are listed with detailed bibliographic information. There is also a statistical overview of these texts.

Reception Phenomena:

  • The page »Intertextual Relations« lists all intertextual relationships between Sappho fragments and the analysed reception testimonies, as well as between fragments and reception testimonies among themselves. At the top there is a network visualization with links to the individual work pages. Below, the relationships are presented in an expandable list form: for each text you can see which other texts it has intertextual relationships with, how many commonalities they share, which texts or text excerpts were specifically analysed, and which phenomena underlie the respective relationship.
  • On the pages »References to Persons and Characters«, »References to Places«, »References to Works and Quotations«, »Rhetorical Topoi«, »Motifs«, »Topics« and »Plots«, the respective phenomena in the reception testimonies and Sappho fragments analysed as examples are listed with frequency counts and links to the individual work pages; there are also simple visualizations of the most frequent occurrences. On the page on references to persons and characters, the various designations for Sappho in the analysed reception testimonies are additionally listed.

Statistics: This page offers sample statistical analyses of the annotated Sappho fragments and the analysed reception testimonies. It opens with the reception indices, a composite value measuring the reception strength of individual texts. This is followed by analyses of average intertextual relations and shared phenomena, of particularly dense intertextual relationships, and of phenomena as the basis of intertextual relations. Further sections show all phenomena compared, their distribution by fragment reference, over time and by genre, as well as connections between subject-matter components, references to persons, references to works, and quotations. Finally, two sections are devoted to gender-specific analyses and to a popularity analysis based on wiki metrics.

»Data«

SPARQL: The Sappho Digital Query Service is a SPARQL interface based on Comunica. It offers various source-data options, example queries and an open SPARQL input field, as well as the option of downloading results as CSV or JSON. Queries can also be assembled visually via a query builder based on Sparnatural, whose result is transferred into the SPARQL input field. Links to helpful resources are also listed: a SPARQL tutorial, the data model, the alignments, the vocabulary and the statistical analyses (see above).

Network Visualization: Here you will find a visualization of all data as a network. On the left, classes can be searched and filtered; by default, all the INTRO classes used are selected (INT_Character, INT_Interpretation, INT_Motif, INT_Plot, INT_Topic, INT_Topos, INT18_Reference, INT2_ActualizationOfFeature, INT21_TextPassage and INT31_IntertextualRelationship) as well as the LRMoo classes F1_Work (Sappho’s work as a whole) and F2_Expression (individual fragments and all reception testimonies). On the right, instances can be searched and filtered. On loading, »Von den plejaden her vierzehn gedichte im hinblick auf Lesbos« by Johannes Poethen is preset as the starting point. A single click on a node expands its connections, a double-click collapses them again; clicking a plus node opens five more connections. At the bottom left, the total number of triples is visible; in the middle, the currently displayed graph can be exported as PNG. Tooltips show the label, class, URI, and, where applicable, a further link for each node.

GitHub: Clicking this menu item leads to the GitHub repository, which contains the data itself as well as all scripts and the website code.