IDAP was written in Javascript and deals with Computerized Drama Analysis. It carries out the operations that were formerly done by two programs called DRAMALYS.EXE and DRAMGRAF.EXE which had been written for MS-DOS Computers in Turbo-Basic and which were then replaced by WINDRAMA written in Visual Basic..
Like its forerunners IDAP reads through a drama text and,
together
with a character list, checks the proper use of programme commands that
any user has to put into a text for evaluation purposes. Once the text
was accepted as formally correct, the programme produces a number of
results both in tables and graphics. Whereas previous programmes had to
be downloaded and installed to a variety of computer systems which, in
the course of time, used new libraries that did not match the functions
and procedures of the programme any more, IDAP is available via
internet. Anyone who has a proper drama text file and a character list,
also in text format, can access the server via internet and retrieve
analytical data that match the up to date theory of quantitative
approaches in drama analysis. IDAP was expected to be hosted by the
Philosophische Fakultät server at Hannover University.
Unfortunately this did not materialize, and the programme was hosted by
Mivitec at:
http://dramenanalyse.de/da/jsp/index.jsp
The site can also be accessed from http://idap.engsem.uni-hannover.de
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In case any questions arise please write to: Hartmut.Ilsemann@engsem.uni-hannover.de
A detailed description of program functions and the handling of the program is available under the IDAP tutorial section. Incentives for further investigations on the basis of the assembled program data are described under Theory - Procedures. (unfortunately only in German)
Anyone interested in further details about the program is kindly
requested to turn to secondary literature:
Hartmut Ilsemann, "Dramenanalyse mit dem Computer:
Konfigurationsstruktur und Replikenfrequenz," Siegener Periodicum
zur Internationalen Empirischen Literaturwissenschaft (SPIEL),
Jg.11 (1992), Heft 1, S.25-61
Hartmut Ilsemann,"Computerized Drama Analysis,"Literary and
Linguistic Computing,(Oxford Univ. Press), vol. 10, No. 1, 1995,
pp. 11-21
Hartmut Ilsemann. Shakespeare Disassembled: Eine quantitative
Analyse der Dramen Shakespeares. Frankfurt/M, Bern, New York:
Peter Lang, 1998.
Hartmut Ilsemann. "Some observations on speech length distributions
in Shakespeare's plays,"Shakespeare Jahrbuch 2005,vol.141,
p.158-68.
Hartmut Ilsemann. "More observations on speech length distributions in
Shakespeare's plays," Literary and Linguistik
Computing, (Oxford Univ. Press), vol. 23, no 4, 2008, pp.397-407
Hartmut Ilsemann, "Quantitativ-statistische Dramenanalyse: Welche Aussagekraft
haben Häufigkeitsverteilungen der Replikenlängen?" Forum Computerphilologie,
(Hrsg. Georg Braungart, Peter Gendolla und Fotis Jannidis, (2013).
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- or - Hartmut Ilsemann
Urgent call for help
All data on this site come
from IDAP, the Internet Drama Analysis Programme, which is hosted commercially. The faculty of philosophy is
financially not in the position any more to
finance the hosting costs of almost 200 € per year. Before the academic work of several years
is irretrievably lost, will firms, institutions, funds and the like, who are interested in quantitative drama
research, and in the preservation of academic assets please declare their willingness to contribute to the upkeep of the
programme, perhaps in a joint venture, or to host the site on an Apache server. / Der Server mit den Hintergrunddaten dieser Website wurde auf Grund von Installationsnotwendigkeiten bei einem kommerziellen Betreiber
angemietet. Die Kosten in Höhe von knapp 200 Euro jährlich wurden bisher von universitärer Seite getragen, was in naher Zukunft aber nicht mehr möglich sein wird.
Der Aufruf geht daher an Bildungsinstitutionen, Förderungseinrichtungen und Firmenprogramme, zum Erhalt der in jahrelanger Forschungsarbeit
eingerichteten Datensammlung beizutragen, oder die Installation auf einem vorhandenen Apache-Server zu übernehmen.
Please contact the following link / bitte wenden Sie sich an Kontakt