Digital Diplomatics 2011

Conference report online

GV — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:53:07 +0000

A conference report in German is online at the site of the AHF: http://www.ahf-muenchen.de/Tagungsberichte/Berichte/pdf/2012/003-12.pdf.

Conference Booklet

GV — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:29:02 +0000

The conference booklet with the extensive abstracts of the papers is available here.

PDF of slides and posters online

GV — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:08:41 +0000

The slides of the presentations and the posters are now online (in alphbetical order):

Last details

GV — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:02:37 +0000

Our conference is imminent and we are looking forward to meet you all Naples.

We provide details on the location and how to get there at http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/organization/location.

Here you can find the final program.

Registration is still possible.

We wish you all a good journey!

Rossi, Fabrice; Villa-Vialaneix, Nathalie; Hautefeuille, Florent: Exploration of a large database of French notarial acts with social network methods

AA — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:06:29 +0000

The use of electronic databases has eased exploration and analysis of large collections of charters, enabling complex prosopographical research. Despite such progress, the systematic exploration of such databases remains complex and time-consuming, especially when the number of documents under study reach one hundred or more.

This poster shows how methods used to analyse large interaction networks, such as online social networks, can be applied to help historians to understand large charter or biography databases visually.

The proposed approach is applied to a very large corpus of thousands notarial acts established in the same small geographical area from South West of France, mainly between the XIII^th and the XV^thcenturies. These documents all are land charters and provide various information such as the transaction dates and types and also the persons directly involved in the transaction.

Data mining tools were developed to help the historians decipher the main features of the corpus: a network model was derived from the database and tools developed in the field of social network analysis were used to analyse it. In this network model, entities, that are either persons or transactions, are connected if a person is involved in a given transaction.

Tools developed in the field of social network analysis were used to gain knowledge about the corpus and to identify some possible transcriptional errors. Visualisation methods were also applied to provide an intuitive representation of the corpus, that can be used by historians to explore the network: additional information can be added on the representation, such as dates or main persons names, giving an insight about the macro-structure of the network derived from the database.

Fabrice Rossi
fabrice.rossi@apiacoa.org

Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix
nathalie.villa@univ-perp.fr

Florent Hautefeuille
florent.hautefeuille@univ-tlse2.fr

(pdf of the poster)

Programm

GV — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:26:27 +0000

The advisory board has finally selected the papers to be presented at the conference. It wasn’t an easy choice as all 76 proposals had their specific value and interest. We hope the resulting programm covers a wide range of subjects and contains papers of interest for a large audience.

To the programm.

If you are interested in attending the conference please register at http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl11/organization/registration.

Contact

GV — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:05:49 +0000

For further information please contact the organisation team at

<DigDipl11@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>

Stutzmann, Dominique: Diplomatique et paléographie numerique: De nouveux instruments de datation et d’attribution?

GV — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:10:45 +0000

Les développements méthodologiques aussi bien que technologiques des paléographes, généralement attachés aux écritures livresques (non datées, non localisées, autographie) sont applicables à la diplomatique. Les humanités numériques en paléographie apportent ainsi des instruments nouveaux pour répondre à des questions traditionnelles : attribution (auteur, impétrant, faussaire) et datation (relative). Elles permettent aussi d’approcher les évolutions des pratiques graphiques au sein de chancelleries et de scriptoria.

L’examen paléographique de la production diplomatique des évêques d’Autun et de Langres, ainsi que celle des ducs de Bourgogne au xii^e siècle permet de mesurer exactement les apports des nouvelles méthodes pour la diplomatique. Le chartrier de Fontenay (O.Cist, dioc. Autun) est soumis à une exploration inédite pour distinguer la production de chancellerie et par l’impétrant, et les conclusions sont élargies et confrontées aux chartes des anciennes abbayes de Clairvaux (dioc. Langres), La Bussière (dioc. Autun) et Molesme (O.S.B., dioc. Langres). L’analyse des systèmes graphiques des scribes (emplois des allographes, utilisation des abréviations, capitalisation) et de la mise en texte des chartes permet de distinguer des groupes (clustering) et des évolutions dans des productions apparemment homogènes, et de séparer les productions livresque et diplomatique. Elle permet ainsi de proposer des dates pour des chartes non datées et de confirmer l’attribution, mais aussi de voir les tendances conservatrices de scriptoria, qui se distinguent des pratiques des chancelleries émettrices, même quand celles-ci sont bien attestées. Cette analyse ne dispense néanmoins pas des méthodes actuelles de la critique historique ou paléographique.

M. Dominique Stutzmann
Chargé de recherche
Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (CNRS, UPR 841)
Section de paléographie – Paris
eMail: dominique.stutzmann@irht.cnrs.fr website: http://www.irht.cnrs.fr

Bertrand, Paul; Gurrado, Maria: “Paléographie médiévale et analyse formelle quantitative: considérations méthodologiques et résultats d’enquête. Autour de l’utilisation du logiciel ‘Graphoskop’”

GV — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:05:39 +0000

Il s’agirait de présenter un nouvel état de l’enquête sur les dimensions de l’écriture et leur analyse quantitative au moyen du logiciel Graphoskop. L’approche serait la même que celle que tu as déjà entrevue à Paris, mais qui était alors vraiment à ses débuts: une approche comparée manuscrits – “livres” d’archives – chartes, autour de la période 1250-1400. Nous accentuerions fortement l’analyse méthodologique, autour de l’outil et de ses capacités, mais aussi autour des problèmes méthodologiques d’une analyse quantitative des dimensions des écritures anciennes par le biais d’une démarche relativement empirique.

Paul Bertrand
Institut de richerche et d’histoire des textes, Paris
eMail: paul.bertrand@cnrs-orleans.fr

Maria Gurrado
Institut de richerche et d’histoire des textes, Paris
eMail: maria.gurrado@irht.cnrs.fr

Czmiel, Alexander; Lawo, Mathias: Monumenta Germaniae Historica – ‚Constitutiones’ Online – a Work in Progress

GV — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:03:06 +0000

The Berlin department of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, hosted at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, is working on the MGH-subseries ‚Constitutiones et acta publica imperatorum et regum’. The remaining documents to be edited (above all more than 8 000 imperial charters) will concern the constitutional development of the medieval Empire during the years 1331–1347 and 1357–1378 of emperors Lewis IV and Charles IV.
The paper to be presented arises from close cooperation between medievalists and digital humanities specialists. It will outline the diplomatic possibilities and technological problems one may encounter when offering medieval charters online in a digital scholarly research environment. The online presentation aims to provide access to the full-texts of the charters to simplify and to improve diplomatic research as well as to offer solutions for new research questions. It will show the handling of special characters and demonstrate normalized search techniques. As an alternative visualization option every charter is put on a map and a time-line. The digital edition of the MGH charters is based on the guidelines of the Charters Encoding Initiative (CEI). It can currently be found at http://telotadev.bbaw.de/mgh as a snapshot of work in progress and will be transferred to a production server before conference time.

Alexander Czmiel
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Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
“Telota – The electronic life of the Academy”
Berlin – eMail: http://www.bbaw.de - http://www.telota.de