Parchment, Paper and Pixels Medieval Writing and Modern Technology

Programme

DAY 1 (FEBRUARY 2)
9.30-10.15 Registration and coffee
10.15-10.30 Welcome and introduction
Lita Wiggers, director of the Regional Historic Centre Limburg (RHCL)
Jan Burgers, chair of SSNM
10.30-11.30 Keynote: Peter Stokes (King’s College London) Pixels in Parchment and Parchment in Pixels: Closing the Interpretative Loop of Digital Palaeography
11.30-12.00 Coffee/tea
11.30-13.30 Exhibition of some outstanding books and documents from RHCL, selected and commented by Gerard Venner and Geertrui Van Synghel
11.45-13.00 Excursion for foreign participants to the St Servaas church
12.00-13.00 Public lectures (in Dutch): Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University) and Truus Roks (RHCL)
13.00-13.45 Lunch for the participants of the conference (coffee area)
13.45-15.45 Session 1 — DIGITAL EDITIONS AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Chair: Els De Paermentier (Ghent University, Henri Pirenne Institute)
o Eef Dijkhof (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)
Transcription Matters: Methods of Transcribing Historical Documents and the Impact of New Techniques
o Torsten Hiltmann and David Gniffke (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster) Digital Edition of ‘Comment les obseques se doivent faire’
o Miguel Calleja Puerta (Universidad de Oviedo) and Francisco Javier Álvarez Carbajal (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Universidad de Oviedo) The Diplomatic Edition of notarial and municipal charters in the Digital Age
o Miriam Edlich-Muth (Free University Berlin) Feature Selection in Mapping ‘Floire et Blancheflor’
15.45-16.15 Coffee/tea
16.15-17.45 Session 2 — MULTIFACETED APPROACHES TO DIGITAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Chair: Ed Van der Vlist (Royal Library The Hague)
o Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands) Digital collections of medieval manuscripts: What can we do with them and what not?
o Suzette Van Haaren (Utrecht University)
Encoded Parchment and Digital Sustainability. How digital materiality
affects the representation, reproduction and preservation of medieval
manuscripts
o Agata Dierick (Municipal archives of Leuven)
Itinera Nova | New ways to the digital disclosure of archival sources
19.00 Conference dinner

PROGRAMME : DAY 2 (FEBRUARY 3)
9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30-10.30 Keynote: Georg Vogeler (University of Graz) Integration of Charter Databases: On the Relationship Between Regesta Imperii
and Monasterium.net
10.30-10.45 Coffee/tea
10.45-12.15 Session 3 — SCRIPTS AND SCRIBES
Chair: Eef Dijkhof (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)
o Mats Dahllöf (Uppsala University) Automatic Scribe Attribution for Medieval Manuscripts
o Dominique Stutzmann (l'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, CNRS, UPR 841) Confronting human and machine generated script classifications
o Stephen Smith (Electronics, University of York, UK), Márjory Da Costa-Abreu (DIMAp, UFRN, Brazil) and Deborah Thorpe (Electronics / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, UK) Visualisation and dynamic analysis of medieval writing processes in the context of neurological diseases and disorders
12.15-13.00 Final Conclusions: Georg Vogeler (University of Graz)
13.00-13.15 Closing of the Conference