Creating Onomastic Social Network Maps of Books Using Their Indexes. Case Study: ‘Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World’

This paper proposes a methodology to create social networks using subject and onomastic indexes from books to facilitate content analysis in monographic works. Books have not been largely studied in this context because their contents have not been digitized as in comparison with scientific research articles. However, indexes have been proven as a useful tool to identify relations between terms or characters mentioned inside the texts. This technique is based in the co-presence among these elements and they further visualization, offering a new perspective for structural analysis within Social Sciences and Humanities books. The book ‘Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World’ has been used as a study object to illustrate this technique and its possibilities. ©The authors ©Learned Publishing ©Wiley.