🦄 Data and analysis of mythological motifs
A working repository containing:
- R scripts for scraping and cleaning the Thompson Motif Index (TMI) into a dataframe format
- a readable version of this dataset as a .csv file
- scripts for transforming this dataframe into a network structure based on the hierarchical outline of the index
- various exploratory scripts for analyses (in progress)
Related work and inspiration from others includes:
- Declerck, T., Kostová, A., & Schäfer, L. (2017). Towards a Linked Data Access to Folktales Classified by Thompson's Motifs and Aarne-Thompson-Uther's Types. In DH.
- Karsdorp, F., van der Meulen, M., Meder, T., & van den Bosch, A. (2015). MOMFER: A Search Engine of Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature. Folklore, 126(1), 37-52.
- Yarlott, W. V. H., & Finlayson, M. A. (2016). Learning a better motif index: Toward automated motif extraction. In 7th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2016). Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik.
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