Diariesas

Diariesas is a term used to describe the practice and study of diaries as data sources. It encompasses the collection, preservation, transcription, annotation, and analysis of diary writings across genres and periods. The concept emphasizes diaries as artifacts that record personal cognition, social contexts, and cultural norms, while also treating them as data suitable for systematic inquiry.

In digital humanities and archival science, diariesas addresses questions of accessibility, standardization, and reproducibility. Projects may standardize metadata, provide searchable interfaces, and enable cross-corpus comparisons by applying common encoding schemes.

Methodology includes assembling corpora from personal diaries, historical journals, travel logs, and digital diary apps; transcription or OCR of manuscripts; encoding with TEI or other schemas; annotation for topics, emotions, and dates; and preservation of provenance and licensing.

Applications span historical research, linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis, psychology, and cultural studies, including investigations of daily routines, gender roles, language use over time, and indicators of well-being.

Challenges include selection and survivorship biases, gaps and missing data, ethical concerns about privacy and consent, copyright, and questions of authenticity and representation.

Related topics include diaries, diary studies, digital humanities, and textual analysis.