It’s Probably the only Modestly Widely Used System with a Command Language in Latin: Manfred Thaller and Julianne Nyhan (original) (raw)
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2019
In this paper we present the mid-term results of the PRiSMHA project, aimed to contribute in building a digital “smart archivist”, i.e., a web-based system providing an innovative access to historical archives. Such a system is endowed with a semantic layer over existing archival metadata, including computational ontologies and a knowledge base, containing a formal description of the content of the documents stored in the archives. The paper focuses on the fruitful synergies employed to reach its goal. In particular, it explains the steps of the “spiral” process implemented for creating a full-fledged formal semantic model, through the interaction between computer scientists, historians, and archivists. The paper also presents some “core side-effects” of this process: an analytical card for each document has been produced, all selected documents have been digitized, OCR-ized (when possible), and linked to a record on the archival platform. This experience enabled us to define a virt...
Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT)” meeting on Vienna (Austria) from 11 to 13 November 2013, 2013
Cover [pdf 24 kB] Keynote Speech Christian RUDORFER, Austria (City of Vienna, Urban Survey): The benefit of Terrestrial Laser Scanner for archaeology [pdf 957 kB] Archaeological Documentation with New Technologies Chair: Hansjörg THALER, Italy Maria ANDALORO | Roberto BIXIO / Carmela CRESCENZI, Italy: The complex of St. Eustache in Göreme, Cappadocia, reading the relationship between the landscape and a very articulated settlement [pdf 1,15 MB] Maria ANDALORO | Tatiana PIGNATALE | Giorgio VERDIANI, Italy: The Church of Meryem Ana in Göreme, Cappadocia, correct documentation for a meaningful heritage at risk [pdf 560 kB] Luciana BORDONI | Michela COSTANTINI | Alessandra CURCIO, Italy: A case study in archaeological documentation with ontological modelling [pdf 258 kB] Carme MIRÓ | Encarna COBO, Spain: The Archaeological Map of Barcelona. 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Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2005
Production Technology (EPT), a technological infrastructure for collaborative research, teaching, and learning between computer scientists and specialists in Old English. 1 Our goal is to identify and solve problems of mutual importance in building image-based electronic editions of significant cultural materials. The EPT will allow us to implement and integrate both new and already available software applications, to construct a digital library of previously unedited Old English manuscripts as a testbed for our solutions, and to distribute the digital library to the public. This paper introduces some of the tools and technologies currently under development as we build this interdisciplinary research, teaching, and learning infrastructure. First, we introduce the stand-alone tools developed under the Electronic Boethius project, an image-based electronic edition of the Alfred the Great's Old English translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. 2 Next, we describe formal methodologies for collaborative research, teaching, and learning and the integration of these tools, as well as new developments, into an open-source platform. Next we present new ways to maintain the integrity of highly complex, layered, XML markup. 3 Finally, we discuss how the EPT will be useful to other humanities computing projects.
SCCH'09 - Scientific Computing & Cultural Heritage
Book of Abstracts - for the book with full articles, please follow the link, 2013
The sheer computing power of modern information technology is changing the face of research not just in science, technology and mathematics, but in humanities and cultural studies too. Recent decades have seen a major shift both in attitudes and deployment of computers, which are now vital and highly effective tools in disciplines where they were once viewed as elaborate typewriters. This revealing volume details the vast array of computing applications that researchers in the humanities now have recourse to, including the dissemination of scholarly information through virtual ‘co-laboratories’, data retrieval, and the modeling of complex processes that contribute to our natural and cultural heritage. One key area covered in this book is the versatility of computers in presenting images and graphics, which is transforming the analysis of data sets and archaeological reconstructions alike. The papers published here are grouped into three broad categories that cover mathematical and computational methods, research developments in information systems, and a detailed portrayal of ongoing work on documenting, restoring and presenting cultural monuments including the temples in Pompeii and the Banteay Chhmar temples of the Angkorian period in present-day Cambodia. Originally presented at a research workshop in Heidelberg, Germany, they reflect the rapidly developing identity of computational humanities as an interdisciplinary field in its own right, as well as demonstrating the breadth of perspectives in this young and vibrant research area.
Computers and historians: Past, present, and future
Computers and the Humanities, 1997
This article is an introduction to this thematic issue on historical computing, produced on the occasion of the tenth international conference of the Association for History and Computing. It offers a brief presentation of the conference and introduces five examples of current work in historical computing.
From Manuscripts to Programming Languages: An Archivist Perspective
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
This paper presents the archival treatment of documentation produced by IFIP Working Group 2.1, Algorithmic Languages and Calculi as kept by former chairman Willem van der Poel (1962-69) and Chris Cheney. It highlights the importance of archival treatment based on standards such as International Standard for Archival Description-ISAD(G) and the International Standard Archival Authority Record (Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families)-ISAAR-(CPF) both issued by the International Council on Archives, the Portuguese Guidelines for Archival Description ODA and Encoded Archival Description EAD. The archived collection enables dissemination and effective access to the information for research and in-depth knowledge of computer history and specifically programming languages and formal methods. The paper also addresses the issues of the long-term preservation of archival records produced today in their various formats and the importance of contributing to preserving collective memory and enriching the knowledge about the human society.
The hard work of software history
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts and …, 2001
A few years ago, the literary and media historian Friedrich Kittler opened an essay called "There Is No Software" with a "rather sad statement." In his view, "the bulk of written texts -including this text -do not exist anymore in perceivable time and space but in a computer memory's transistor cells." Coming from a scholar who had until then situated the cultural meaning of literary texts in discourse networks dependent on technologies of inscription (writing, gramophone, typewriter, computer) and the materiality of communication, this remark captures the essence not just of a technological change but of a significant cultural shift. At the end of the 20 th century, according to Kittler, texts -and even software itself -have vanished. Our text-producing gestures merely correspond to codes built on silicon and electrical impulses; the texts themselves no longer exist materially, and indeed we have ceased to write them: "All code operations … come down to absolutely local string manipulations and that is, I am afraid, to signifiers of voltage differences." 1 Following Kittler's train of thought, we should wonder how libraries and archives will locate electronic or virtual replacements for the acts and artifacts of writing that occupied Goethe at the turn of the 18 th century or Einstein at the close of the 19th.