Approaches to Argentine Theatre (18th and 19th Centuries) from the Perspective of Digital Humanities. Encoding, Digital Publication and Computational Analysis

Proyecto Filo:CyT 2025-2027 (FFyL-UBA) FC25-114

Abstract

In this note, we offer a summary of our project “Approaches to Argentine Theatre (18th and 19th Centuries) from the Perspective of Digital Humanities: Encoding, Digital Publication and Computational Analysis,” which studies different theatrical works produced in the territory that currently belongs to the Argentine Republic between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by applying methodologies and techniques from the digital humanities — digital encoding and publication, semantic enrichment, text mining, social network analysis, etc. — that enable new forms of research, teaching, and exploration of theatre in Argentina from a quantitative and digital perspective. This proposal is also part of the international network DraCor (Drama Corpora), an ecosystem that brings together dramatic works from a wide variety of traditions, periods, and languages, from which machine-readable data can be extracted from texts, facilitating access to and reuse of information in accordance with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Thus, this project seeks to facilitate access to theatrical texts, provide international visibility to Argentine theatre, contribute to open science and digital humanities in the country, and offer new forms of reading (close and distant, through data visualizations such as networks, topics, word clouds, etc.) to researchers, teachers, and students interested in the dramatic genre in our country.

ARK CAICYT: https://id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s18511740/vgmipvtv9