Virtual Research Environments and Ancient Manuscripts

See the conference presentation and (closed) call for paper here. Programme: A) Invited papers: 1) VREs of research projects - Garrick Allen, Owen Colan, Declan O’Sullivan (Dublin City University, ADAPT Centre) “Titles of the New Testament (TiNT): Digital Editing and Querying Data for Paratexts in Manuscript Cultures” - Patrick Andrist (University of München) “Goals and strategies for developing a manuscript database with a focus on comparative codicology” - David Bouvier and Ariane Jambé (University of Lausanne) “The digital future of a founding text: the Iliad and the Genavensis Græcus 44 manuscript” - Claire Clivaz and Mina Monier (SIB, Lausanne) “Mark16 as a VRE: challenges and opportunities” - Hugh Houghton and Catherine Smith (ITSEE, University of Birmingham) “Codex Zacynthius: Editing a Virtual Manuscript in the Digital Research Environment” - Antonio Loprieno (University of Basel) “Crossing boundaries between humanities and informatics: the case of Egyptian papyri” - Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (University of Basel) “D-scribes project and beyond: building a VRE for Digital Paleography of Ancient Greek and Coptic” - Greg Paulson (INTF, University of Münster) “The Nestle-Aland as Open Digital Edition” 2) Data storage, curation and evaluation - Ann Harding (Switch, Zurich) “Safe and Easy Storage for All Kinds of Data Artifacts” - Lukas Rosenthaler and Vera Chiquet (DHLab, University of Basel) “Salsah and Knora as Swiss Research Infrastructure in Humanities” - Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra (DARIAH-EU), “VREs as an evaluation and peer-review challenge in Humanities” B) Selected papers: - Valéry Berlincourt, Lavinia Galli Milić, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Damien Nelis (Université de Genève) “From a digital critical edition to a Virtual Research Environment: the Achilleid of Statius as case study” - Bronson Brown-deVost (Georg-August-Universität) “Editing Dead Sea Scrolls in the Scripta Qumranica Electronica VRE” - Thomas Köntges (University of Leipzig) “Livin’ on the Hyperedge: Using Brucheion to Produce Digital Scholarly Editions as Hypergraphs” - Margot Mellet (Université de Montréal) “The Palatine Antology Project: A digital edition of a classical corpus” - Peter A. Stokes, Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra, Benjamin Kiessling, Robin Tissot, El Hassane Gargem (EPHE and PSL) “The eScriptorium VRE for Manuscript Cultures” C) Selected slam session and posters : Francesca Galli and Elena Nieddu (Universita della Svizzera italiana et Roma 3) “In Codice Ratio: using VREs in the study of the Medieval Vatican Registers” - Moshe Lavee (University of Haifa) “Tikkoun Sofrim”: Text Aggregation and Text Modeling in Creating combined HTR - Crowdsourcing Digital Editions” - Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel et Marie Bisson (Université de Caen) “Why do the digital critical edition of a Latin source ? The example of the De Rebus Gestis Rogerii comitis by Gaufredus Malaterra” - Riccardo Macchioro (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) “Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages (PASSIM). Towards a Virtual Research Environment for the Study of Patristic Homiliaries” - Elpida Perdiki and Maria Konstantinidou (Democritus University of Thrace) “Handling Big Manuscript Data” - Sara Schulthess (SIB, Lausanne) “The VRE of the research project HumaReC, some lessons learned” - Andrew Smith (Shepherds Theological Seminary), “Mining Manuscript Data in the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room” - Elena Spadini (Université de Lausanne) and Elisa Nury (Université de Genève) “Manuscripts and digital tools: the long history of machine-assisted collation” - Simone Zenzaro (Université de Lausanne) “Towards better VREs: key concepts and basic challenges