Case study: De Clercq

The standard work by De Clercq en Schmeltz (1893) contains a large number of classified object descriptions of the Papoa peoples in former Dutch New Guinea.

Re-using reference structures

The RNA project links the chapter on weaponry in the work of De Clercq en Schmeltz to Landolt's military dictionary, which also covers weapons and military science.

The work of De Clercq and the Landholdt dictionary contain a large number of keywords and descriptions of these keywords (together: lemmas). The RNA project links keywords and matching words in the description of other keywords. In this way, a network of lemmas is created, a reference structure that was already implicitly present in the descriptions. This lemma network is largely created through automation.

Optimal searching

The result is an encyclopaedic network of lemmas. End users can jump from keyword to keyword and from keywords to linked content.