The impulse project is intended as a first step towards realizing a vision of a digital and collaborative research environment for the humanities (CORE-H: Collaborative Open Research Environment for the Humanities).
In this PhD project, the relations between Cologne archbishops and Hohenstaufen emperors at the end of the 12th century are investigated using methods of historical network analysis.
This proof of concept study investigated how networks can be generated semi-automatically from textual data (charters). The approach used provides a formal representation of knowledge extracted from the deeds in a knowledge base. By specifying explicit criteria, networks are automatically generated from the knowledge base, which can then be analyzed and interpreted by the historian.