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The semantic markup makes it possible to frame the data that can be extracted from a primary source by resorting to a controlled vocabulary, in which specific words, expressions and concepts are lemmatised and placed in a hierarchical relationship.
We abide by the definition of controlled vocabulary as it has been formulated in the ERC project Patrimonium. Geography and Economy of the Imperial Properties in the Roman World (https://patrimonium.huma-num.fr/), available in the thesaurus manager of AusoHNum (https://ausohnum.huma-num.fr/). Its framework, based on the division into eight main sections, was left unchanged. However, some changes were needed because of the chronological shift that FISCUS required.
The changes were mainly directed towards the core of the project – that is, the keywords grouped in the subsection ‘Fiscal Property’, placed in turn under the category ‘Economy’. Whenever a place has been marked at least once as a ‘Fiscal Property’, the point on the Map is displayed as a golden one (it is violet, instead, when the keyword ‘Fiscal Property’ has not been selected). The category ‘Textual Occurrence’ is intended to specify whether one fiscal estate appears as a marginal element in the document – e.g. when it is mentioned in the list of land borders or as a topical date – or whether it constitutes the main object of a legal transaction. The category ‘Function’ refers to the management forms of the fiscal estates, and to the uses that owners and beneficiaries could make of them. The categories ‘Inflow’ and ‘Outflow’ describe synthetically the dynamics of the fiscal redistribution circuit (on which cf. Bougard, F., and V. Loré, eds, Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge / Beni pubblici, beni del re. Le basi economiche dei poteri regi nell’alto Medioevo. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019).

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