IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 102: Beneath the Surface: Can Data Mining Help Us Estimate Manuscript Production and Loss?
Monday 4 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Jean-Baptiste Camps, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ariane Pinche, École Nationale des Chartes, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres |
| Paper 102-a | Heigh-Ho!: Mining Catalogues for Traces of Medieval Romance Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 102-b | Manuscripts and the 'Long Middle Ages': Mining Sale Catalogues of the 19th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 102-c | Stemmas Posit Lost Manuscripts: How Can We Harness This Method? - Icelandic Romances as a Case Study (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Assessing what remains from the past is at the core of any understanding of historical sources, because representativeness of data is at the basis of scientific reasoning. To address this problem, scholars have been producing inventories, catalogues, or databases for more than two centuries. Could these resources help us in sketching a global picture of what was and what has been lost? This session will explore how we can mine both digitised and natively digital resources, using computational methods, to obtain indications or estimates of documentary loss and production rates. |