Digital Approaches to Transcribing and Analysing Medieval Texts
An international seminar organised by the Research Group for Medieval Philology focusing on the application of digital tools for text-critical work on medieval texts.
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The Research Group for Medieval Philology has the pleasure to invite all interested parties to a two-day international seminar on digital tools and approaches in the field of medieval textual criticism. Scholars from Italy, UK, Netherlands, Iceland, Finland and Norway will share their research and experiences with a number of digital tools and discuss their application to the analysis of medieval textual works.
This seminar is organised with financial support from the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen. Attendance is free of charge but requires registration (see link under Registration).
PDF version of the programme with abstracts for all talks
Programme:
Thursday, 29th August
09.00 Opening Address by Jørgen Sejersted, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Introduction by Odd Einar Haugen on behalf of the organising committee
1. Transcription Procedures
Chair: Nina Stensaker
09.20 Marina Buzzoni (Venice): TransKribing Medieval Handwritten Texts
10.10 Elisa Cugliana (Cologne): OCRopus: A Helping Hand - or Tentacle - for your Transcriptions
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Rune Kyrkjebø (Bergen): From Paper to TEI - An Experiment with the OCR in the Digitisation of Gustav Indrebø’s Version of Sverris saga
12.20 Lunch break
13.30 Robert K. Paulsen (Bergen): Don’t do more than you have to do! Streamlining the Transcription of Old Norse Manuscripts with MenotaBlitz
14.20 Coffee break
2. Preparation for Stemmatic Analysis
Chair: Odd Einar Haugen
14.40 Joris van Zundert (Amsterdam): Making Yourself Understandable to the Universal Machine: From Transcription to Computer Tractable Data
15.30 Marina Buzzoni (Venice): Applications of Computer-Assisted Stemmatology to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Tradition
16.20 Discussion and demonstration of tools
Friday, 30th August
3. Stemmatic Analysis in Practice
Chair: Zuzana Stankovitsová
09.00 Bjarni Gunnar Ásgeirsson (Reykjavík): Some Limitations of Quantitative Methods and Sampling in the Light of Old and Recent Work on Snorra-Edda and Brennu-Njáls saga
09.50 Alaric Hall (Leeds): Five Stemmas of Sigurgarðs saga frækna, Sampling, and the Transmission of riddarasögur
10.40 Coffee break
11.10 Tuomas Heikkilä (Helsinki): Humanities Scholars and Computerized Tools: Comparing Recent Approaches of Computer-Assisted Stemmatology