This is a brief addendum to my earlier discussions about 'digital dating'. After writing these posts, I developed and wrote up some of these ideas and published them as 'The Problem of Digital Dating: A Model for Uncertainty in Medieval Documents', in Digital Humanities 2015 Book of Abstracts (Sydney, ...
Further to my earlier discussion about the problems of representing dates in digital format, Matthew Driscoll and I have produced a short survey to gague what people want and expect when searching databases with uncertain material. As noted on the survey itself,
This informal survey is designed ...
In the previous instalment of this discussion, I raised some questions about dating manuscripts in a digital context. I am happy to say that this has provoked some fairly active discussion, both publicly and privately, particularly at the meeting of the Read more
A significant and unsolved problem in digital resources for medieval and earlier material is how to represent dates or, rather, uncertain date periods. This is a problem that I have addressed in the past, particularly at the 2011 ISAS Conference in Wisconsin, and it has come up again as ...
Some issues and ideas on the visualisation of palaeographical content will be discussed in the last paper of the biennial conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists in Madison, WI, on August 6. I reproduce the paper abstract here:
Palaeographers are typically asked three questions of medieval or ...