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 ...
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Chinese, Tibetan and Devanagari are all scripts that I have wanted for some time to test on the DigiPal model for describing handwriting, and the recent meeting of Le Groupe de recherches transversales ...
I have been updating the list of digital resources for manuscript and book studies that I normally use in my teaching and thought that it might be useful to make it available more generally. This is a loosely classified list which is by no means complete and which in some ...
The British Library is digitising its material at a great rate, and a recent post on their blog includes a spreadsheet with the latest list of their material (1111 manuscripts to date). Although this list will undoubtedly grow very quickly, it nevertheless seems worthwhile to extract those entries which ...
Date: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Time: 5.45pm until the wine runs out
Venue: Council Room, King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS
Co-sponsor: Centre for Late Antique & Medieval studies, KCL
All good things come to an end, they say. And so, after four action-packed ...