Digital Methods I: Citation and Representation of Medieval Manuscripts

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Digital Resource for Palaeography (DigiPal), Dept. of Digital Humanities, King's College London

Organizer Name

Stewart J. Brookes

Organizer Affiliation

King's College London

Presider Name

Stewart J. Brookes

Paper Title 1

To Thine Own Self Be True: Attempting to Capture the Ineffable Holistic in the Empire of "Content" and "Data"

Presenter 1 Name

Matthew Evan Davis

Presenter 1 Affiliation

North Carolina State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Citing Visual Evidence in Paleographical Argument: The DigiPal Experience

Presenter 2 Name

Peter A. Stokes

Presenter 2 Affiliation

King's College London

Paper Title 3

Constructing, Testing, and Analyzing a Semantic Graph of Manuscript Features

Presenter 3 Name

Christine Roughan, Neel Smith

Presenter 3 Affiliation

College of the Holy Cross, College of the Holy Cross

Start Date

10-5-2014 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 208

Description

The aim of the papers in this session is to consider what computer-based technologies might offer us in the study of medieval handwriting, whether it be on vellum or part of an architectural work. The speakers will explore tools and approaches which allow for an explicit digital representation for every observable textual or graphic feature of a text, arguing for a careful consideration of the object as a holistic that includes both textual and non-textual elements. Popular standards and tools discussed will include TEI, Omeka, the CITE architecture and DigiPal.

Stewart Brookes