The conference will focus on the challenges and consequences of using IT and the internet for codicological and palaeographic research. The authors of some selected articles of an anthology to be published this summer by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) will present and discuss their excellent research results with scholars and experts working on ancient books and manuscripts. A panel discussion will be held with renowned exponents in the field of codicology and palaeography and contributors of cutting edge research to get an overview of the state of the art as well as to open up new perspectives of codicological and palaeographic research in the “digital age”.

The conference will focus on the challenges and consequences of using IT and the internet for codicological and palaeographic research. The authors of some selected articles of an anthology to be published this summer by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) will present and discuss their excellent research results with scholars and experts working on ancient books and manuscripts (for a French description of this publication see the APICES site). The presentations will be given on current issues in the following fields: manuscript catalogues and descriptions, digitization of manuscripts, collaborative systems of research on manuscripts, codicological databases, manuscript catalogues, research based on digital resources, e-learning in palaeography, palaeographic databases (characters, scripts, scribes), (semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes, digital tools for transcriptions, visions and prototypes of other digital tools.
A panel discussion will be held with renowned exponents in the field of codicology and palaeography and contributors of cutting edge research to get an overview of the state of the art as well as to open up new perspectives of codicological and palaeographic research in the “digital age”.
The conference is open to the public.

Program

(for updates see the Ludwig Maximilian Universitaet Muenchen homepage)

Fr. 3.07.

14:30 Eröffnung Irmgard Fees (Univ. München)

15:00-16:30 Palaeographical Databases Moderation: Franz Fischer (RIA Dublin)  
Tracing the Marks of Individuality within Historical Handwriting: The Interdisciplinary Project of a “Database for the Authentication of Medieval Writing Hands” (DAmalS) Wernfried Hofmeister, Andrea Hofmeister, Georg Thallinger (Univ. Graz)   Computer-Aided Palaeography, Present and Future Peter Stokes (Univ. Cambridge)

16:45-17:15 Präsentation von weiteren Beiträgen des Sammelbandes
 
17:30-19:00 Information science view on manuscripts Moderation: Torsten Schaßan
(HAB Wolfenbüttel)   Codicological descriptions of the manuscripts included in the Roman de la Rose Digital Library Timothy Stinson (Univ. of Virginia)   Approche informatique du document manuscrit Roland Tomasi (BIT-Alpha Toulouse)

19:30 Podiumsdiskussion: The Computer and the Human Eye: Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age Moderation: Georg Vogeler (Universität München)   Mit Eef Overgaauw (SBPK Berlin), Marc Smith (ENC Paris) diskutieren Peter Stokes, Wernfried Hofmeister, Roland Tomasi und Timothy Stinson, deren Beiträge von der APICES und dem IDE als richtungsweisend ausgezeichnet worden sind.  

Sa. 04.07.

8:45-10.30 Digital Palaeography? Moderation: Malte Rehbein (Univ. Galway)   Aspects of Application of Neural Recognition to Digital Editions Daniele Fusi (Univ. Rom)   Digital Palaeography Mark Aussems (Univ. Edinburgh), Axel Brink (Univ. Groningen)   The Palaeographical Method under the Light of a Digital Approach Arianna Ciula (ESF, Strasbourg/King's College, London)

10:45-11:15 Präsentation von weiteren Beiträgen des Sammelbandes  

11:30-13:00 Codicology and Palaeography between e-Learning and research environent Moderation: Christiane Fritze (BBAW Berlin)   Representation and encoding of heterogenous data in a web based research environment for manuscript and textual studies Daniel Deckers, Lutz Koch, Cristina Vertan (Univ. Hamburg)   DIGISTYLUS. An Online Information System For Palaeography Teaching and Research Marco Palma / Antonio Cartelli (Univ. Cassino)

13:00 Abschlußdiskussion Moderation: Georg Vogeler (Univ. München)

Kontakt

Dr. Georg Vogeler, Historische Grundwissenschaften, Historisches Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Geschwister-Scholl-Pl. 1, D - 80539 München, g.vogeler@lrz.uni-muenchen.de, Tel: +49 89 2180 3784, Fax: +49 89 2180 2084

Finanzierung

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Gerda Henkel Stiftung