Digital Approaches to Transcribing and Analysing Medieval Texts
An international seminar organised by the Research Group for Medieval Philology focusing on the application of digital tools for text-critical work on medieval texts.
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The Research Group for Medieval Philology has the pleasure to invite all interested parties to a聽two-day international seminar on digital tools and approaches in the field of medieval textual criticism. Scholars from Italy, UK, Netherlands, Iceland, Finland and Norway聽will share their research and experiences with a number of digital tools and discuss their application to the analysis of medieval textual works.聽
This聽seminar is organised with financial support from the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.聽Attendance is free of charge but requires registration聽(see link under Registration).
PDF version of the programme with abstracts for all talks
Programme:
Thursday, 29th August聽
09.00听听Opening Address by聽J酶rgen Sejersted,聽Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Introduction by聽Odd Einar Haugen聽on behalf of the organising committee
1. Transcription Procedures聽
Chair: Nina Stensaker
09.20听听Marina Buzzoni (Venice):聽TransKribing Medieval Handwritten Texts聽
10.10听听Elisa Cugliana (Cologne):聽OCRopus: A Helping Hand - or Tentacle - for your Transcriptions
11.00听听Coffee break聽
11.30听听Rune聽Kyrkjeb酶 (Bergen): From Paper to TEI - An Experiment with the OCR in the Digitisation聽of Gustav聽Indreb酶鈥檚 Version of聽厂惫别谤谤颈蝉听蝉补驳补听听
12.20听听Lunch break聽
13.30听听Robert K. Paulsen聽(Bergen): Don鈥檛 do more than you have to do! Streamlining the聽Transcription of Old Norse Manuscripts with聽MenotaBlitz
14.20听听Coffee break聽
2. Preparation for聽Stemmatic Analysis聽
Chair: Odd Einar Haugen
14.40听听Joris van Zundert聽(Amsterdam): Making Yourself Understandable to the Universal聽Machine:聽From Transcription to Computer Tractable Data聽
15.30听听Marina Buzzoni (Venice): Applications of Computer-Assisted聽Stemmatology to the聽Anglo-Saxon Chronicle聽Tradition
16.20听听Discussion and demonstration of tools聽
Friday, 30th August
3.聽Stemmatic Analysis in Practice聽
Chair: Zuzana Stankovitsov谩
09.00听听Bjarni Gunnar聽脕sgeirsson (Reykjav铆k): Some Limitations of Quantitative Methods and Sampling in聽the Light of Old and Recent Work on聽Snorra-Edda听补苍诲听Brennu-Nj谩ls saga
09.50听听Alaric Hall聽(Leeds): Five Stemmas of聽Sigurgar冒s saga fr忙kna, Sampling, and the Transmission聽of聽谤颈诲诲补谤补蝉枚驳耻谤
10.40听听Coffee break聽
11.10听听Tuomas Heikkil盲 (Helsinki): Humanities Scholars and Computerized Tools: Comparing Recent聽Approaches of Computer-Assisted聽Stemmatology
