Workshop: Historical Documents in the Digital Age.

25-26 October, 2012,

Rouen.

 

The aim of the Workshop is to bring together those whose professional work involves the study of historical documents or who have a responsibility for increasing their accessibility, with technologists developing techniques to support the analysis and management of digital documents. The Workshop will encourage a greater understanding of how these two communities can work productively together and how crossing the traditional disciplinary boundaries can create opportunities for supporting better historical research while also increasing the awareness of the general public of their rich cultural heritage. 

PROGRAM

 

DocExplore et son usage pour la paléographia.

Élisabeth Lalou 

Nouvelles perspectives en paléographie: imagerie numérique, métrologie, encodage allographétique, statistiques.

Marc Smith, Dominique Stutzmann 

Numerical tools for Middle Age handwriting clustering and identification.

Véronique Eglin 

Novel computer-based techniques for exploring handwritten documents.

Richard Guest 

Browsing the contents of digital libraries of historical documents by word spotting – Latest Achievements.
Marçal Rusiñol
 

Transcrire le passé à l'aide d'outils du présent.
Stéphane Nicolas
 

De l'image au texte - From image to text.
Franck Lebourgeois

Patrimoine numérisé et lecture sociale, quelles convergences?.
Clotilde Vaissaire-Agard

Turning over a new leaf: Access and interpretation through technology interpretation.
Clive Izard

Les TIC sont-elles en train de transformer la relation au patrimoine culturel?.
Jean-Marc Minière

La constitution de bibliothèques numériques patrimoniales: et après?.
Matthieu Bonicel

Quels fonds d'archives numériser et avec quels outils les valoriser dans une perspective de recherche?.
Jean-François Moufflet

Digitisation and the local archives office.
Cressida Williams

How Do We Build It So They Will Come?: Editing Bess of Hardwick's Letters Online.
Alison Wiggins

Pixiliating the Page: Reflections on Illuminated Manuscripts in the Digital Age.
Alixe Bovey

L'outil et les paradigmes: ergonomie applicative, visualisation des données et leur rôle dans le travail d'historien.
Dominique Stutzmann

Truth versus Beauty: issues of provenance and representation when imaging manuscript material.
Melissa Terra 

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Novedad editorial: De sellos y blasones: miscelánea científica.

Galende Díaz, J. C. (coord.) (2012), De sellos y blasones: miscelánea científica, Madrid.

ÍNDICE

Prólogo.
Nicolás Ávila Seoane

Los fondos sigilográficos del Archivo Histórico Nacional.
Esperanza Adrados Villar 

La materialidad del sello: anclajes, enlaces y ataduras en los sellos pendientes germánicos
del siglo XII.
Susana Cabezas Fontanilla 

El sello real en Castilla: tipos y usos del sellado en la legislación y en la práctica documental
(siglos XII-XVII).
María Teresa Carrasco Lazareno

El sello de plomo en la Cancillería pontificia. Origen y evolución.
José María de Francisco Omos 

Los sellos pendientes en documentos del Archivo Municipal de Toledo.
Mariano García Ruipérez y Juan Carlos Galende Díaz 

Blasones concedidos a indígenas americanos en el siglo XVI.
Pablo E. Gil-Loyzaga 

El sello real en el gobierno de las Indias. Funciones documentales y representativas.
Margarita Gómez Gómez 

Escudos de linajes, no de apellidos.
José Luis Sampedro Escolar

Taller de heráldica. Cómo diseñar y describir un escudo.
José Antonio Vivar del Riego

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Los archivos diocesanos: nuevos retos ante la era virtual.

Madrid, 11-12 de diciembre de 2012,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Madrid.

Directores: Antonella Ambrosio (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II/ICARUS), Francisco Antonio Chacón Gómez-Monedero (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Manuel Joaquín Salamanca López (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

La importancia de los archivos diocesanos se antoja clara si tenemos en cuenta la triple función desarrollada por el obispo: pastoral, de gobierno y de administración. Desde el estudio de las relaciones Iglesia-Estado, la historia de la iglesia local, hasta asuntos de índole económico, los archivos episcopales brindan posibilidades y sorpresas informativas de todo género.
En esa línea, no ajenos a los nuevos tiempos que corren, han comenzado a abrir sus puertas a las nuevas tecnologías, ya sea digitalizando sus fondos, creando contenidos web, etc. De ahí la necesidad de conocer esa nueva vertiente en el trabajo diario del archivo, que abrirá nuevas vías y posibilidades a los investigadores.

PROGRAMA

11 de diciembre

10:30h 

Thomas Aigner (Presidente de ICARUS). Complementarità, sinergia, attività: il network ICARUS come strategia per raccogliere le sfide archivistiche nell’era digitale.

11:30h 

Antonella Ambrosio (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II/ICARUS) y Dña. Maria Rosaria Falcone (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II). Documenti e archivi ecclesiastici in MOMCA sul portale Monasterium.Net.

16:00h 

Xavier Agenjo Bullón (Director de proyectos de la Fundación Ignacio Larramendi y de DIGIBIS). Los Archivos y Linked Open Data: normativa de Europeana y el W3C.

17:00h 

Anabella Barroso Arahuetes (Directora del Archivo Histórico Eclesiástico de Bizkaia). El AHEB-BEHA y el centro ICARO, una apuesta por la difusion interactiva.

12 de diciembre

10:00h 

Visita al Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Madrid.

11:00h 

Andrés Martínez Esteban (Director del Archivo Histórico Diocesano de Madrid). Archivo Histórico de la Diócesis de Madrid, pasado, presente y futuro.

16:00h 

Eutimio Sastre Santos (Profesor del Istituto di Teologia della Vita Consacrata "Claretianum"). La protección jurídica de los archivos diocesanos.

Información e inscripción

Fuente: SECCTTHH

Exhibition. Magnificent Manuscripts - Treasures of Book Illumination from 780 through 1180.

October 19, 2012 - January 13, 2013,

München, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung (in Kooperation mit der Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ).

With 72 extraordinary manuscripts from the collection of the Bavarian State Library, as well as three exceptional works from the Bamberg State Library, the Kunsthalle of the Hypo Cultural Foundation presents a wide overview of the earliest and most precious examples of German book illumination.These 75 magnificent volumes represent some of the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of the Carolingian, Ottonian and Romanesque eras. Within this library’s extensive collection, the Ottonian manuscripts in particular form a unique nucleus that is unsurpassed worldwide. Owing to their extraordinary fragility, these highly valuable works can hardly ever leave the library’s vault. This exhibition of original manuscripts therefore offers a unique opportunity to discover thousand-year-old testimonies to our cultural heritage.

The oldest manuscript on display dates from the era of the last Bavarian Agilolfing duke. The Carolingian codices from the illumination centres of Salzburg, Tegernsee and Freising bear witness to the high quality of artistry in the 9th century. German illumination under the Saxon emperors from Otto the Great (912-973) to Henry II (973-1024), is one of the most glorious epochs of early occidental illumination, which played a prominent role in the arts at that time. Among the greatest achievements of this Ottonian period are the magnificent depictions of sovereigns. These establish a connection between the secular and the sacred, and underline the sanctity of imperial power.

Secular and ecclesiastical rulers commissioned liturgical manuscripts from the best writing schools and illumination centres: these gospels, pericopes and sacramentaries were richly decorated with luminous colours and gold. Their ingeniously tooled luxurious bindings are encrusted with numerous precious stones, cameos and ivory reliefs, including spolia dating from the classical, Byzantine and Carolingian periods.

Four world-famous sumptuous codices from the island of Reichenau, whose monastery became the imperial scriptorium under Otto III and Henry II, are on show, including the gospels of Otto III and the pericopes of Henry II. Together with the evangeliary from Bamberg cathedral and the Bamberg Apocalypse, these books have been listed on UNESCO's "Memory of the World" World Documentary Heritage register since 2003. The importance of Regensburg as a centre for the creation of sumptuous codices is demonstrated by two magnificent liturgical manuscripts, the Codex commissioned by the Abbess Uta and the Sacramentary of Henry II.

The art of Ottonian illumination outlasted the Saxon rulers until well into the Salian period. The date of the transition from Ottonian to Romanesque art cannot be precisely defined. Other selected manuscripts from the Bavarian State Library illustrate the continuity into the 11th century right up to the threshold of the Romanesque, at the same time following the development of Romanesque book illumination and its flourishing in the following century up to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1122-1190).

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XIVth International Seminar on the Care and Conservation of Manuscripts.

17-19.X.2012,

Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen.

PROGRAMME

OCTOBER 17

Preserving the brain in the box: The scientific analysis and conservation treatment of the Archimedes Palimpsest. 

Abigail Quandt, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 

Creating a universal finding aid for world manuscripts: Possibilities, pitfalls, and potential. 

Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts Project, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. 

A non-contact imaging method to measure and map water content in parchment. 

Greg Bearman, ANE Image, Pasadena, CA with David Cuccia, Amaan Mazhar, Modulated Imaging, Irvine CA and Jesssie Weber, McGill University, Montreal. 

The collapse of the Cologne Historical Archive: The role of restorers and the emergency plan. 

Robert Fuchs, CICS Colgne Institute for Conservation Sciences. 

King Valdemar’s Cadastre: The conservation of a once-divided manuscript. 

Jiří Vnouček, The Royal Library, Copenhagen.

OCTOBER 18

Reasons for conservation: The case of AM 928 4to. 

Peter Springborg, Mette Jakobsen and Natasha Fazlic, The Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen. 

Deletions in manuscripts: What they may tell the historian and how should traces of deletions in manuscripts during conservation/restoration be dealt with? 

Patricia Engel, European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration, Horn, Austria.

The florilegium Gottorfer Codex: Research into the artist’s techniques and the conservation of 1180 flower paintings on parchment. 

Anja Scocozza, Christian Balleby Jensen and Niels Borring, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen. 

'Mirabilia' and over-familiarity: The problem of training and awareness in the care of rare books collections. 

Maria Luisa Russo, Project co-ordinator of the KADMOS working group, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Turin.

An antioxidant research project resulting from treatment needs of an 18th century illuminated manuscript. 

Maria Trojan-Bedynski, Doris St. Jacques, Lynn Curry, Library and Archives Canada and Season Tse, Canadian Conservation Institute. 

Characterization of writing inks in illuminated manuscripts (9th -16th centuries): The use by scribes and illuminators. 

Lieve Watteeuw, Illuminare, Centre for the study of medieval art, KU, Leuven and Marina Van Bos, KIF/IRPA, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels. 

Investigation and conservation of Latvian Republic passports (1927 - 1943). 

Oksana Plotnikova, National Archives of Latvia, Riga.

Conservation of a Ripley Scroll. 

Amy Junker Heslip, Wellcome Trust, London. 

Ancient religious books of the Moldavian Metropolitan Library: Conservation and Investigations.

Nicoleta Vornicu & Cristina Bibire, Metropolitan Research Center T.A.B.O.R, Iasi, Maria Geba, Moldova National Complex of Museums, Iasi, Mihaela Puiu, Conservation and Restoration of Christian Art Heritage, RESURECTIO. 

The Medieval girdle book: A format for instant access. 

Margit Smith, Associate Professor (retired) Copley Library, University of San Diego. CA.

The illuminated pixel: Adaptation of infrared and visible light reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) in exploring a medieval illuminated manuscript. 

Michael Maggen, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 

A cheap and portable multispectral camera system for manuscript photography. 

Felix Albrecht, Septuaginta‐‑Unternehmen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. 

The application of Spectral Imaging for monitoring changes in parchment from the environment and conservation treatments. 

Greg Bearman, Consultant to the IAA for Imaging Technologies of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Pasadena CA, with Marcello Manfredi, Emilo Marengo, University of East Piedmont, Italy and Fenella France, Library of Congress, Washington DC. 

Deacidification and strengthening of acidified books and documents: The strengthening of acidified paper. 

Peter Leerkamp, OmniAcces B. V. Nijmegen, Netherlands. 

Dickens discovered, Tyndale traced and Cyrillic 'Sacraments' compared: All by back-lighting. 

Ian Christie-Miller, independent scholar, UK.

OCTOBER 19

Neither weak nor simple: Adjusting our perception of Islamic manuscript structures. 

Karin Scheper, University Library Leiden. 

Field conservation experiences from East Tigray, Ethiopia. 

Marco Di Bella, Independent book conservator, Palermo, Nikolas Sarris, Department for the Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Zakynthos. 

Changing the will: illuminated endowment deeds of Ottoman royal women. 

Paul Hepworth, Independent conservator, Istanbul.

Some early Greek printed books from unknown local archives and the Greek Enlightenment (16th – 19th centuries). 

Stamatina Ouzounoglou, Independent conservator, Naxos. 

The methods and results of the conservation of the incunabula in the Baltika collection of the Academic Library of Tallinn University over the last three decades. 

Rene Haljasmäe, Academic Library of Tallinn University, Tallinn.

Seals and their conservation in Latvia. 

Ilona Teplouhova, National Archives of Latvia.

How to transmit place memory from generation to generation. 

Dalia Jonyaite, Lithuanian Art Museum, Pranas Gudynas Restoration Centre, Vilnius, Jonas Drungilas, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius. 

Personal archives at the National Library of Sweden. 

Johanna Fries Markiewicz, National Library of Sweden, Stockholm.

Digitising Greek manuscripts: benefits and prospects. 

Barbara Crostini, Ars edendi, Department of French, Italian and Classical Languages, Stockholm University. 

Devising assessment strategies for the British Library’s treasures. 

Paul Garside, Mariluz Beltran de Guevara & Flavio Marzo, British Library, London. 

What information goes missing when we open the binding of codices? 

Patricia Engel, European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration, Horn, Austria. 

'Elementary my dear Watson': Manuscripts, mysteries and the solving of clues. 

Pamela Porter, British Library, London.

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