User:Christof Rolker

Welcome to my user page! If you want to contact me, my email is christof dot rolker at uni-bamberg dot de.

My bots

• Add Biblissima QID to infobox (biblissima enricher.py)
  • The programme generates various search terms for manuscripts from the infobox of our manuscript descriptions lacking a biblissima QID, and searches the Biblissima database. If there is a hit, and the identity is confirmed by a human user, the bot adds the QID to the infobox.
    • Mostly, the bot seraches biblissima for (French) place names plus shelfmarks; the library names are less important (in most places, there is only one) and also less helpful than one might think. For places like Cambridge, Florence, Oxford, however, the library names are used, and for some major libraries there are very specific rules taking into account how Biblissima references the manuscripts held therein (for example, Biblissima always adds "Département des manuscripts" for the BnF manuscripts).
    • If "easy" search terms fail, the bot comes up with more random variations of place names, library names, shelfmarks, and olim shelf mark.
    • The bot logs rejected hits, discarding them the next time it is run.
  • The search is somewhat cumbersome and still needs double-checking but I think it is worth it.
• Add IDs/links from the Biblissima database
  • The bot looks up the QID found in the infoboxes of our manuscript pages in the Biblissima database, extracts some IDs (ARCA ID, CCFr ID, and Biblissima Portail ID), and adds them to the infobox, where they are displayed as links.
  • This bot is tried and tested.
  • Combined with the first bot, this bot improves above all stubs which no user has improved yet, as the links provide important basic information.
• Tidy infobox for manuscript and library pages (clavis_infobox_bot.py):
  • With both humans and bots fiddeling with the infoboxes, the layout often becomes messy, which can annoy human users and occasionally bots.
  • The bot removes genuine doublets (same parameter, same value), flag contradictions (same parameter, different values)
  • ... sorts parameters according to infobox template
  • ... formats URLs (server name as link name, except for handschriftenportal.de which takes "HSP" as link name; add "CGM" in brackets where appropriate)
  • ... cleans up (spacing, one line per parameter)
  • ... and checks for broken infoboxes (missing brackets; no longer an issue actually)
• Categories for manuscript pages (categorize_direct_v2.6.1.py)
  • The bot adds categories "Manuscript from ...", "Manuscript saec ...", and "Digitized Manuscript"/"Manuscript not digitized" according to infobox if and only if they are missing.
  • Also sorts categories alphabetically (after "Manuscript" which is always the first category), place DEFAULTSORT before categories

If all

User Guides

Guides to important editions

Friedberg's Liber Extra

Bibliography playground

Agustín, Dialogi

Historiographical background

An idea Danica and I talked about:

• Articles on some scholars and the way they influenced research, e.g. making some collections (texts, manuscripts, issues) prominent, and the ideological background of this. Examples:
  • The Ballerini brothers re-editing the Quesnelliana mainly to make the point that this was not the quasi-offical Roman law book which Quesnel thought it was. Vice versa, they argued that the Dionysio-Hadriana was the offical collection and stressed Pope Hadrian's role in making and distributing it. All this only makes sense if one knows a bit about 18th c. Gallicanism.
  • A similar, slightly more harmless, example is the collection today known as Corpus canonum Africano-Romanum which was renamed several times.
  • Friedberg's interest in medieval canon law of marriage is very directly link to his support of Prussian marriage law of his time. His decision to integrate the editio Romana in his edition of Gratian is perhaps best understood as courtesy towards catholic users of his edition (taking into account that catholic scholars at the time were effectively prohibited from doing a critical edition of the Corpus Iuris Canonici). The background here is the Kulturkampf, and discussions within the catholic church and beyond about Vatican I.
• Some of this may best be integrated in the articles on individual collections, but we also need short articles on the scholars to addresse recurring issues.
• Categories may be helpful to alert readers who influenced research on which collections/manuscripts.

Individual papal letters

• JK 675
• JK 685

Replacetext

Replace Mordek with Mordek

Ersetze:

(Mordek|\{\{author\|Mordek\}\}), Review of Melnikas,? (p\. |pp\. | )(\d+)

durch:

{{author|Mordek}}, [https://doi.org/10.7767/zrgka.1986.72.1.403 Review of Melnikas] p. $3

My Wishlist

Manuscripts of the late-twelfth-century collections (list)

Sortkey for libraries

Category descriptions for libraries

Checklist Burchard

Export of metadata

Statistics - mss by library

Test

Kategorien sortieren

Schnittmenge von Kategorien