Small Datasets and Big Questions. Perspectives on the application of unseen species models to Old Swedish courtly literature. Dataset and notebooks.

This deposit contains the dataset and the Jupyter notebooks underlying the analysis presented in the abstract 'Small Datasets and Big Questions. Perspectives on the application of unseen species models to Old Swedish courtly literature' by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan and Paola Peratello, accepted at the Digital Humanities 2026 (DH2026) conference. This represents the version of the dataset and notebooks at the time of abstract submission for review.

The zip-file contains the following folders:

• dataset: it contains the datasets based on Faymonville, Louise. 2023. Hövisk litteratur och förändringar i det fornsvenska textlandskapet, Stockholm, Stockholms universitet:
  1. rimkrönikor och historiska dikter inhemesk (34); [kro]
  2. rimmade romancer och sagor, översattning (17); [rhy]
  3. världsliga dikter, visor och rim, oklar-ursprung (3); [vda_unc]
  4. världsliga dikter, visor och rim, inhemesk (1); [vda_ind]
  5. världsliga dikter, visor och rim, översattning (2); [vda_tra]
  6. skrifter av historiskt, politiskt, biografiskt och geografiskt innehåll, översattning (1); [skr_tra]
  7. skrifter av historiskt, politiskt, biografiskt och geografiskt innehåll, inhemesk; (8) [skr_ind]
  8. prosaromaner, sagor och berättelser, översattning (22) [pro]
• notebooks
  • Swedish_Copia016.ipynb: this notebook allows to apply the US model to Swedish Medieval Literature with Copia (0.1.6)
  • Swedish_Ex_1_Copia014.ipynb: this notebook is a very slightly revised copy of the notebook published with Kestemont et al. (2022) (Kestemont, Mike, Folgert Karsdorp, Elisabeth de Bruijn, et al. 2022a. ‘Forgotten Books: Supplementary Materials (Data and Code) (v0.3.1-Cr)’. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5947206); 
  • Swedish_Ex_2_Copia014.ipynb: this notebook allows to compare romances with historical texts; 
  • Swedish_Ex_3_Copia014.ipynb: this notebook allows to compare verse with prose texts; 
  • Swedish_Ex_4_Copia014.ipynb: this notebook allows to compare original (indigenous) texts with translations.
• copia-0.1.4 : it is Python package for diversity estimation in cultural data developed by Kestemont and Karsdorp (Kestemont, Mike, Folgert Karsdorp, Elisabeth de Bruijn, et al. 2022b. ‘Forgotten Books: The Application of Unseen Species Models to the Survival of Culture’. Science 375 (6582): 765–69. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abl7655; Kestemont, Mike, Folgert Karsdorp, Elisabeth de Bruijn, et al. 2022a. ‘Forgotten Books: Supplementary Materials (Data and Code) (v0.3.1-Cr)’. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5947206; Karsdorp, Folgert, Mike Kestemont, and Margo De Koster. 2023. ‘Dark Numbers:Modeling the Historical Vulnerability to Arrest in Brussels (1879-1880) Using Demographic Predictors’. Long paper at DHBenelux 2023. Brussels)
• outputs : this folder contains the outputs generated by running the notebooks.