I've been bothered for a while by anxieties about digitisation of manuscripts and how well they do and do not capture the material aspect of the original. That they do not reproduce the original is surely beyond debate, but this is not to say that they are flawed any more ...
The DigiPal project will be represented indirectly at DH2013 through related work primarily by Noga Levy and Lior Wolf from the Tel Aviv University, Israel. Noga will be presenting a paper on work done using a predecessor of the DigiPal dataset to predict what features of handwriting might have been ...
A PhD scholarship in palaeography and manuscript studies at King's College London has just been announced for 2013/14. This is not funded by DigiPal but it could certainly involve a project relevant to DigiPal or using the DigiPal framework.
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As more and more resources are being put on line, many of us are asking how these can be used for academic research. Another equally important question, though, is how they can be used to help teaching and learning, both in a formal context and for the very substantial number ...
Following up on last year's strong showing, digital approaches to manuscript studies will be well represented once again at Leeds International Medieval Congress (IMC) in 2013, including three members of the DigiPal team.
Stewart Brookes and Peter Stokes will be speaking on 'Answers and Questions: Digital Approaches to Dating ...