Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts

Tal Hassner (1) , Robert Sablatnig , Dominique Stutzmann (2) , Ségolène Tarte

1 Computer Science Division
2 IRHT - Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14302 " Digital Pa-laeography: New Machines and Old Texts " , which focused on the interaction of Palaeography and computerized tools developed in Computer Vision for the analysis of digital images. This seminar intertwined research reports from the most advanced teams in the field and interdiscip-linary discussions on the potentials and limitations of future research and the establishment of a community of practice in Digital Palaeography. It resulted in new research directions in the Computer Sciences and new research strategies in Palaeography and in a better understanding of how to conduct interdisciplinary research across all the fields of expertise involved in Digital Palaeography.

Mots clés: Handwriting Recognition; Interdisciplinarity; Epistemology; Middle Ages; Manuscript studies; Expertise; Knowledge exchange

Domaines: Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]; Histoire; Méthodes et statistiques

Tal Hassner, Robert Sablatnig, Dominique Stutzmann, Ségolène Tarte. Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts. Dagstuhl Reports, 2014, 4 (7), pp.112-134. ⟨10.4230/DagRep.4.7.112⟩. ⟨hal-01854554⟩