ISCH COST Action IS1005
Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources, Working Group 2,
Manuscripts and textual tradition,
Huygens ING, Den Haag, Netherlands,
Medieval Europe – Medieval Cultures and Technological Resources, Working Group 2,
Manuscripts and textual tradition,
Huygens ING, Den Haag, Netherlands,
18 – 19 Apr 2013.
* Call for Papers *
Closing date for poroposals: 15th February 2013
Medieval manuscripts and codices are
notoriously difficult to convince to become well behaved inhabitants of
the digital scholarly ecosystem. Meanwhile over the last decades many digital local computerized
services, web based tools, and stand alone applications have been
developed to create, publish, and analyze digital representations of manuscript
and printed text. Although such tools have been trying to accommodate
for medieval manuscripts ?and sometimes were even solely developed for
that purpose? a true convenient and intuitive means of re-representing
medieval text in the digital medium seems elusive. The nature of
medieval texts ?ambiguous, uncertain, instable, often of unknown origin
and descent, of puzzling function and context, damaged, fragmented,
still unconventional in their multiplicity of form, format, language,
orthography, typography, and script? poses an ultimate challenge to
creators and users of digital tools wishing to produce useful and
reliable digital counterparts to these medieval sources of knowledge and
testimonies of intellectual creativity.
The Huygens Institute for the History of
the Netherlands and the COST Action IS1005 “Medieval Europe” are
organizing a two-day workshop that seeks to gather a number of experts
in methodologies and tool creation around the complex issue of
transferring medieval manuscripts to a digital medium. The workshop, to
be held at the Huygens Institute in The Hague on 18 and 19 April 2013,
will create an overview of the state of the art of tool development, and
of the difficulties and extreme requirements medieval manuscript poses
to digital methods and techniques. The first day will consist of
introductions and demonstrations, as well as thorough methodological
reflection on a number of tools highly visible in the field of digital
textual scholarship. The second day will consist of theoretical and
methodological focused papers and the creation of an inventory of common
difficulties and unsupported features essential to digital philology of
medieval manuscripts.
Interested experts are invited to submit
an abstract for a proposed paper of no more than 500 words. Authors of
proposals should include relevant literature references (not counted as
word count), to assist the audience in its orientation in this more
technical part of the field. Send your abstract to congres@huygens.knaw.nl, before 15 February 2013. Please mention 'COST Workshop' in the subject field.
Workshop Organizers:
Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens ING)
Joris van Zundert (Huygens ING)
Caroline Macé (Catholic University Leuven)
Mariken Teeuwen (Huygens ING)
Joris van Zundert (Huygens ING)
Caroline Macé (Catholic University Leuven)
