Venue: King’s College London, Strand WC2R 2LS: Room S-3.20

Co-sponsor: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval studies, KCL

With great delight, the DigiPal team at the Department of Digital Humanities (King’s College London) announce the programme for their third Symposium. This year’s theme is the computer-assisted study of medieval manuscripts, and we have a range of papers covering language, manual and automatic script analysis, on-line curation, music notation, image retrieval and palaeography (of course!). 

Places are disappearing rather rapidly, so if you’d like to attend, then please send an email to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk, including your details as you would like them to appear on your name badge. Oh, and do let us know if you are vegetarian.

Looking forward to seeing you later this month,

Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes

9h30-9h50 : Coffee & registration

9h50 : Introduction

10h00-10h20 : Sarah Biggs and Julian Harrison (British Library) – Beyond the Reading Room: Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

10h25-10h45 : Tony Harris (University of Cambridge) – Getting to the ‘Hart’ of the Matter – Digitally Speaking

10h50-11h10 : Samantha Blickhan (Royal Holloway, University of London) – Musical Perception and Digital Surrogates: On Using E-Resources for Teaching Early Music Notation

11h15-11h40 : Coffee

11h40-12h00 : Jacob Thaisen (University of Stavanger) – A Survey of Middle English Letter-Forms

12h05-12h25 : Peter Stokes (King’s College London) – What is DigiPal, Really? 

12h30-12h50 : Stewart Brookes (King’s College London) – So Long and Thanks For All the F-shaped ‘y’s

12h55-14h00 : Lunch 

14h00-14h30 : Lambert Schomaker (University of Groningen) – Computer Methods for Handwriting Analysis

14h35-14h55 : Jean-Paul van Oosten (University of Groningen) – Word Image Retrieval from Historical Handwritten Document Collections: The Monk System

15h00-15h20 : Vincent Christlein (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) – A Letter Driven Writer Identification in Medieval Papal Charters

15h25-15h45 : Eleanor Anthony (University of Mississippi) – From the Archimedes’ Palimpsest to the Vercelli Book: Dual Correlation Pattern Recognition and Probabilistic Network Approaches to Palaeography in Damaged Manuscripts.

15h50-16h15 : Coffee

16h15-16h35 : Dominique Stutzmann: (French National Centre for Scientific Research) – Automatic Letter-form Identification in the ORIFLAMMS project »

16h40-17h00 : David Ganz (University of Notre Dame and University of Cambridge) -Polygraphism’: the Scribe Who Can Write Several Scripts

17h05-17h25 : Tessa Webber (University of Cambridge) – The Analysis of Letters: Form, Shape and Stroke

17h30-18h00 : Roundtable discussion with Jane Roberts (Institute of English Studies)