IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 324: Digital Materiality, II: How to Represent Materiality Digitally in Palaeography and Codicology?
Monday 1 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Digital Medievalist |
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Organiser: | Roman Bleier, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
Moderator/Chair: | Sean Winslow, Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den Geisteswissenschaften, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
Paper 324-a | Modelling Writing: Towards a Conceptual Reference Model for Palaeography (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 324-b | Book Covers as Material Objects: Possibilities and Challenges in the Brave New Digital World (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 324-c | On the Epistemological Limits of Automatic Classification of Scripts (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Writing on parchment or paper sets the physical foundation of most of the texts and images we study as medievalists. For a long period digital methods seemed to penalize the physical features. Lately, research endeavours have started to tackle also the material features of text-bearing objects and the material form of texts. Computer vision and formal modelling are at the core of these approaches. The session will showcase these approaches in the field of palaeography and codicology. Carolin Schreiber will report on the development of a modular standard of description for elaborate book covers, e.g. treasure bindings, which includes a Linked Open Data approach and multilingual General Subject and Iconographic Thesaurus as well as analytical methods like spectroscopy. Peter Stokes tries to clarify the fundamental concepts necessary to measure paleography. Marc Smith will discuss the consequences of AI-based methods in the classification of scripts. |