The schedule for the 18th Colloque international de paléographie latine has just been posted. This colloque is run every other year by the Comité international de paléographie latine and this time will be held in St Gall on 11–14 September 2013. The theme is 'The Scriptorium', and the ...
The DigiPal team held a very useful workshop on 8 June 2012 to explain the model and test the system with some researchers in the London area. Feedback was generally very positive, but we still need to test the system more thoroughly with the different material to be sure that ...
The DigiPal project will be represented internationally again, this time at a Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop from 18–21 September 2012 at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Schloss Dagstuhl. 'Computation and Palaeography: Potentials and Limits' is a three-day workshop organised by Tal Hassner (Open University, Israel), Malte Rehbein (University of Nebraska, USA), Lior ...
After some time since the last instalment in the 'Describing Handwriting' series, we have now implemented the model and started putting it into practice. Unfortunately this is not publicly available yet but is only 'behind the scenes' in a password-protected site, mainly ...
I am wrestling these days with the problem of how to refer clearly and unambiguously to scribal hands in publications. A core principle of the DigiPal project is that we should be able to compare large numbers of scribal hands, and refer to them in printed books and journal articles ...