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Monasteries in the Digital Humanities: International Conference

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INVITATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Monasteries in the Digital Humanities
Kraków-Tyniec, Benedictine Abbey, 13–16 September 2017

The conference is organised by the Friends of History Society in Wrocław, Branch of the Polish Historical Society, in collaboration with the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, Institute of History, University of Opole, and the Benedictine Abbey of Tyniec.

Topics:

  1. Presentation of the history of monasteries and religious orders on the internet (monasticons, portals and blogs, websites, databases, maps etc.).
  2. Digital reconstruction of former monasteries, virtual monastery libraries, utility rooms in monasteries etc.
  3. Digitisation of the written legacy of monasteries.
  4. Creation of platforms providing information and bringing together scholars researching monasteries.
  5. Dissemination of knowledge of monasteries and religious orders online.
  6. Possibilities of creating an online monasticon encompassing monasteries located both in Europe (including Poland) and other parts of the world.
  7. Digital tools and resources in humanities research. Problems – solutions – proposals.

Please send us the proposed titles of your full papers (up to 20 min.) and short communication papers (up to 10 min.) to: derwich(at)gmail(dot)com before 15 November 2016.

The languages of the conference will be generally international conference languages. However, we may organise separate sections devoted to Polish topics.

We plan to publish a volume of conference proceedings.
The conference fee is PLN 200 (EUR 50).

We will provide full board and accommodation for participants from outside Poland and will reimburse their travel expenses. Polish participants will cover the cost of accommodation, but will receive fees for preparing their papers (approx. PLN 500).
At the end of the conference, on 16 September, we will organise a tour of Kraków monasteries.

Yours sincerely,
Prof Dr Hab. Marek Derwich
derwich(at)gmail(dot)com
Monika Michalska
michalska(dot)monika(at)gmail(dot)com

Digital Medievalist Journal update

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Dear digital medievalists,

We are very pleased to announce the publication of two highly instructive review articles in Digital Medievalist:

(1) A review on the fourth edition of Kiernan’s Electronic Beowulf – by Stephen Carrell, Gwendolyn Davidson, Virgil Grandfield and Daniel Paul O’Donnell: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/10/copland/

(2) A review on the CATview tool for visualizing text alignment – by Gioele Barabucci: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/10/barabucci/

Enjoy reading Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/

Technologies for handwritten text image recognition, search and alignment

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As part of the HIMANIS project (HIstorical MANuscript Indexing for user-controlled Search), Enrique Vidal (professor of computer science at the Universitat Politècnica de València – Spain) will give a conference entitled:

Technologies for handwritten text image recognition, search and alignment

Wednesday 22 June 2016 at 14h00

Three types of technologies which have been developed at the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology (PRHLT) research center of the UPV will be outlined, each followed by live demonstrations:

1. Automatic and computer assisted (interactive) handwritten text recognition.
2. Indexing and Search for large collections of handwritten text images.
3. Aligning existing transcripts with corresponding text images: line, word and character-level alignments.

Contact: himanis@irht.cnrs.fr
IRHT — Centre Félix Grat
40 avenue d’Iéna
75016 Paris
http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/fr/agenda/technologies-handwritten-text-image-recognition-search-and-alignment

Enrique Vidal is a professor of computer science at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) and former co-leader of the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology (PRHLT) research center in this University. He has published more than two hundred research papers in the fields of Pattern Recognition, Multimodal Interaction and applications to Language, Speech and Image Processing and led many important projects in these fields. Dr. Vidal is a member of the IEEE and a fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

PhD Programme: HISTORY – change and continuity in a global world

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Applications:
2 May to 15 June 2016 (FCT grants)
2 May to 9 September (PhD Programme)

This is an international and inter-university PhD programme, with the participation of the most relevant History departments and research units of the University of Lisbon (Institute of Social Sciences and Faculty of Letters), ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Portuguese Catholic University and University of Évora.
This PhD programme has been selected for funding by the Portuguese Agency for Science and Technology (FCT). It offers 4 PhD scholarships and further financial support throughout the preparation of the PhD dissertation.
Classes run in Lisbon from 19 September 2016 onwards. Courses and seminars are taught in Portuguese and English. Enrolled students receive monitoring assistance by tutors and supervisors.
Please circulate this announcement among colleagues and graduate students of your institutions and networks.

More info available at: http://piudhist.ics.ul.pt/.
For further information please contact: secretario.piudh@ics.ulisboa.pt

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