Submitter:
Email:
Type: Symposium
State:
Nation:
Date: --
The Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) and the chair
for Historical Auxiliary Sciences at LMU Munich organises an
international symposium on \"Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital
Age\" in Munich, 3/4 July 2009. Please find a brief description below and
more information including the preliminary programme here:
http://www.hgw.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/termine/tagung_kod_pal/index.html#programm.

You are all very welcome to participate.

Kind regards,
Georg Vogeler, LMU Munich

International Conference

\"Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age\", Munich, 3-4 July 2009

The conference will focus on the challenges and consequences of using IT
and the internet for codicological and palaeographic research. The
authors of some selected articles of an anthology to be published this
summer by the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE)
will present and discuss their excellent research results with scholars
and experts working on ancient books and manuscripts. The presentations
will be given on current issues in the following fields: manuscript
catalogues and descriptions, digitization of manuscripts, collaborative
systems of research on manuscripts, codicological databases, manuscript
catalogues, research based on digital resources, e-learning in
palaeography, palaeographic databases (characters, scripts, scribes),
(semi-) automatic recognition of scripts and scribes, digital tools for
transcriptions, visions and prototypes of other digital tools.
A panel discussion will be held with renowned exponents in the field of
codicology and palaeography and contributors of cutting edge research to
get an overview of the state of the art as well as to open up new
perspectives of codicological and palaeographic research in the \"digital
age\".

The conference is open to the public.