Month: June 2016

Clustering of medieval scripts through computer image analysis: Towards an evaluation protocol

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Dear digital medievalists,

I am happy to announce the publication of a new article in Digital Medievalist, “Clustering of medieval scripts through computer image analysis: Towards an evaluation protocol” by Dominique Stutzmann.

Here the abstract:

This paper addresses the question of objective categories of medieval scripts and their elaboration through both medieval palaeography and image analysis. It introduces a dataset of 9800 images and metadata from the catalogues of dated manuscripts in France, as a ground truth and evaluation protocol, to be used for image feature analysis, taxonomy building, and clustering methods. It further compares the results of the categorization performed by two teams, one in Lyon (LIRIS/INSA, Frank Lebourgeois) and the other in Tel-Aviv (The Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Lior Wolf). It also addresses the questions of taxonomy, interpretation and goals of the interdisciplinary research, such as development of expert systems or exploratory research.

You can access the full article here. It is the last full article of the current volume #10. But before closing, a review on the visualization tool CatView will follow soon. Watch this space!

And enjoy reading: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/

Kind regards,
Franz Fischer
Editor-In-Chief, Digital Medievalist Journal

Call for Nominations to DM Board 2016-18

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Dear Digital Medievalist subscribers,

Digital Medievalist will be holding elections at the end of June 2016 for four positions to its Executive Board. Board positions are for two year terms, and incumbents may be re-elected (for a maximum of three terms in a row). Members of the Board are responsible for the overall direction of the organisation and leading the Digital Medievalist’s many projects and programmes. This is a working board, and so it would be expected that you are willing and able to commit time to helping Digital Medievalist undertake some of its activities, like editing the journal, organising conference sessions, administering the website, the Facebook group and news feeds, or maintaining a technical infrastructure – and there is room for any initiative you would like to take to foster the communication on digital methods in medieval studies.

For further information about the Executive and Digital Medievalist more generally please see the Digital Medievalist website, particularly:

We are now seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for the annual elections. In order to be eligible for election, candidates must be members of Digital Medievalist (membership is conferred simply by subscription to the organisation’s mailing list, dm-l) and have made some demonstrable contribution either to the Digital Medievalist project (e.g. to the mailing list, or the wiki, etc.), or generally to the field of digital medieval studies.

If you are interested in running for these positions or are able to recommend a suitable candidate, please contact the returning officers, Alexei Lavrentiev (alexei.lavrentev [at] ens-lyon.fr) and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti (emiliano.degli.innocenti [at] gmail.com), who will treat your nomination or enquiries in confidence. The nomination period will close at 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 15 June. Elections will be held by electronic ballot from Wednesday, 22 June 2016, closing at 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 7 July 2016.

Best wishes,

Alexei Lavrentiev and Emiliano Degl’Innocenti