Workshop on
Digitally Transcribing and Editing Medieval Sources
Dr Bernhard Bauer (University of Graz)
You are invited to a workshop covering automatic manuscript transcription methods and digital editing of medieval sources. The workshop will include brief introductions, hands-on tutorials, and a Q&A session. The topics to be discussed include:
- Transcription:
- OCR/HTR
- Tools
- eScriptorium
- Transformation to TEI/XML
- Digital Edition:
- TEI/XML
- Parallel vs. Embedded Transcription
- Oxygen XML Editor
- Grammatical Analysis
There will be a break with refreshments provided, and participants are welcome to bring their own laptops (admin rights required) to engage with the tools. You may also pre-install eScriptorium using the installation guidelines available at this link:
https://gitlab.com/scripta/escriptorium/-/wikis/docker-install.
Additionally, a 30-day trial license for Oxygen XML Editor can be obtained here:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/register.html.
Workshop Leader:
Bernhard Bauer is Assistant Professor in Digital Historical Linguistics in the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz. He also leads the ERC-Consolidator Grant project ‘Celtic and Latin glossing traditions: uncovering earlymedieval language contact and knowledge transfer’ (GlossIT), which focusses on exploring the origins of early medieval language and intellectual exchange in Western Europe. His research interests are Early Medieval Glossing Traditions, Digital Humanities, Language Contact and Comparative (Celtic) Historical Linguistics.
This workshop is supported by the Arqus Alliance and the following projects funded by Research Ireland:
LEIGHEAS: Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic
World (IRCLA/2022/2922): https://leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie
DiAgnostic: Tracing Diatopic Variation in a Corpus of Old Irish (IRCLA/2023/2124)
*Please contact Prof Deborah Hayden ([email protected]) if you wish to attend.