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1Walt Whitman Archive, United States of America; 2Kiel University Library, Deutschland; 3Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Nederland; 4Universiteit Antwerpen, België; 5Boston College Digital Scholarship, United States of America
Does manuscript encoding still have a place in Digital Humanities? Under what conditions? Panelists will reflect on over a decade of experiences with projects, tools, and theories, interrogating what encoding once offered, what it failed to deliver, and what lessons its rise and decline hold for the future of DH
Accessing Historical Periodicals: Newspaper Discourse on Slovene Language
Vojko Gorjanc1,2, Ajda Pretnar Žagar2, Filip Dobranić2, Darja Fišer2
1University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia
This study examines the discourse on the Slovene language from the late 18th to early 20th centuries using the sPeriodika corpus. Findings indicate that this discourse facilitates linguistic planning and national identity formation, highlighting the significance of historical newspapers in understanding the interplay between language, culture, and identity.
An economical, ecological and secured approach to transcribe Western modern manuscripts (1500-2020)
Simon Gabay1, Tobias Hodel2, Ronald Sluijter3, Élodie Paupe4, Jean-Claude Rebetez4, David Rabouin5, Vincent Giovannangeli5, Maxime Humeau6, Pauline Jacsont7, Yvan Jauregui1, Marion Philip1, Elodie Bascoul1, Loraine Chappuis1, Elias Zimmermann1, Esther Solé8, Myriam Lamrayah1, Justine Falciola1, Alix Chagué9,10,11
1Université de Genève, Switzerland; 2Universität Bern; 3Huygens Insitute for the History of the Netherlands; 4Archives de l'ancien Évêché de Bâle; 5SPHERE--UMR 7219, C.N.R.S. Paris; 6Université de Lausanne; 7Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences; 8Universitat de Lleida; 9Inria Paris; 10Université de Montréal; 11École Pratique des Hautes Études
We present a massive model for Western cursive hands. The model shows good performances used from scratch, and even excellent ones when being fine tuned. Entirely open, it is a flexible and efficient solution for projects with limited funding or strict security requirements.
