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Describing Handwriting, Part II: Terminology
Continuing from Part I of this series on describing handwriting, we have outlined a 'high-level' conceptual system for describing letters in a computer from a palaeographical viewpoint. We can now start to add labels to these entities: that is, to decide on terminology. This is the point that has ...
Describing Handwriting, Part I
A fundamental problem of the DigiPal project is how to describe handwriting in clear, unambiguous and (ideally) standardised ways. This question has been bothering palaeographers since the eighteenth century when Scipione Maffei criticised the terminology used by Jean Mabillon, and the Comité international de paléographie latine has been working ...
ISAS 2011: Measuring the Immeasurable?
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 ...
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