Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models

 Federico Pianzola introduced the GOLEM (Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models) project and the pilot research it is based on. One of the initial key questions that this research had to resolve was how to find data about the impact that stories have on readers. By turning to online fanfiction sites like AO3, which has around eight million stories, in roughly forty thousand fandoms, Federico Pianzola was able to successfully demonstrate in a pilot study on English language Harry Potter fanfiction how the evolution of these stories can be analysed to identify an increase in the complexity of stories, as well as in the relationships and the themes depicted therein. The GOLEM project will work with a number of different language (English, Spanish, Italian, Korean, and Indonesian) fanfiction resources to create a graph database as well as take advantage of connecting their metadata to other linked open data sources such as Wikidata and the JVMG knowledge graph.