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Introduction

Download / APIs

1. Data Publications

The project results have been published in two data publications in the RosDok repository of Rostock University Library:

Publicación de datos del "Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico" (DEMel)

The complete data from the DEMel database has been published in various formats together with the documentation as a data publication:

Caroline Müller, Robert Stephan, Rafael Arnold, Ulrike Henny-Krahmer y Karsten Labahn
Publicación de datos del "Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico" (DEMel)
Universidad de Rostock 2026, https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00005462

Corpus de textos del "Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico" (DEMel)

The medieval source texts processed in the project, together with the XSLT stylesheets for generating the TXT and HTML files, have been published as a data publication:

Caroline Müller, Robert Stephan, Rafael Arnold, Ulrike Henny-Krahmer y Karsten Labahn
Corpus de textos del "Diccionario del Español Medieval electrónico" (DEMel)
Universidad de Rostock 2026, https://doi.org/10.18453/rosdok_id00005463

2. Download

Download of Individual Objects

The data for individual objects can be downloaded at the respective object in the DEMel portal (see user manual).

Vocabulary Files, RDF Data Archive and Bibliography
  • The taxonomy with the project's internal vocabulary is available in the formats RDF/TTL and XML/TEI.
  • The metadata for the DEMel data archive is available in RDF/TTL format.
  • The bibliography is available in full in XML/TEI format. In RDF/TTL format, the metadata with links to all source objects is available.
Scans
  • The scans of the index cards are stored in the DORO repository of Rostock University Library and are delivered via a IIIF Image API.
  • The scans of the three volumes of the DEM are stored in the RosDok repository of Rostock University Library and are also delivered via a IIIF Image API. They can also be viewed on RosDok: https://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/ppn1839132361.

3. Interfaces

The DEMel data is made available via a REST API for automated access. The API offers several endpoints for the various DEMel objects in different formats and is documented with OpenAPI.

4. Source Code

The source code of the DEMel portal is published on GitHub.