Artificial Palaeography
Lecture and workshop with Peter Stokes
Hovedinnhold
Workshoppen vil foregå på engelsk.
Artificial palaeography, as a cross-fertilisation between palaeography, computing, and artificial intelligence, focusses on the development of computer software to study historical handwriting. Its automated applications can assist palaeographers to date, locate, and authenticate historical documents on the basis of numerical data, which allows to use objective and comparable criteria. Some examples of scholarship in artificial palaeography include the DeepScript and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg approach. These approaches show, for instance, that humanistic script is related to praegothica while humanistic cursive is slightly closer to pure Caroline script.
The course is divided into two parts: a lecture and a hands-on workshop. The lecture will be streamed and is available for a larger number of participants on and off campus. The workshop will take place on campus and is restricted to 20 participants (please indicate in the registration form whether you want to participate in both parts).
The link to the lecture will be send to all registered participants.
Registration
Number of places for the workshop: 20
Please sign up using the registration link. You will need to actively confirm you participation at the workshop after the signup period, elsewise your spot will be offered to someone on the waiting list.
Prerequirements: Knowledge of palaeography and palaeographic analyses.
Target group: PhD students, postdocs, M.A. students, researchers and other interested persons.
Duration: 5 hours, incl. lunch break
Course language: English
Lecturer
Peter Stokes is professor in digital and computational humanities applied to historical writing in Paris, at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université PSL, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Laboratoire Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident. After completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge on English palaeography, Stokes has developed several new methods of quantitative and computer-based palaeography at King’s College London projects LangScape, Anglo-Saxon Cluster and Electronic Sawyer. In 2011, Stokes was awarded a research grant from the European Research Council for his DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic.
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