Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data.
DARIAH / Biblissima Summer School
This first day will introduce the problems and goals of the summer school, with an plenary lecture on the theoretical basis of digital documents and a historical overview of the information and communication problems in Early Modern France. There will also be an opportunity for participants to present their own research projects.
1st day, July 4th – Digital sources: theoretical fundamentals
Morning, Auditorium
9:30 – 10:00 | Welcome to the Médiathèque Louis-Aragon of Le Mans – Sophie Rouyer |
Introduction to the Summer school – Toshinori Uetani | |
10:00 – 10:55 | From pixels to content – Jean-Yves Ramel |
10:55 – 11:05 | Coffee break |
11:05 – 12:00 | Beyond the Page: enriching the digital library – Lou Burnard |
12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch at “La Villa” – Place de la République, 72 000 Le Mans |
Afternoon, “Patrimoine” room
13:30 – 14:50 | Old Book Collections in Maine and Anjou City Library of Angers – Marc Edouard Gautier City Library of Le Mans – Sophie Renaudin Diocesan Library of Le Mans – Antoine Hamerel Library of the Prytanée national militaire, La Flèche – Sylvie Tisserand |
14:50 – 15:00 | Coffee break |
15:00 – 16:30 | Research presentation of the participants |
16:30 – 17:00 | Break |
17:00 – 18:30 | Public Lecture [French] Réseaux culturels : fabrique du livre Cultural Networks that Make Books Mark Greengrass (Professor Emeritus of Early modern History, University of Sheffield) |
20:00 | Dinner at “Le Valois” – 5 Rue Dorée, 72 000 Le Mans |
Bibliotheca Digitalis Summer school: Presentation | 1rst day | 2nd day | 3rd day | 4th day | 5th day
Abstracts
10:00 – 10:55 | From pixels to content |
Jean-Yves Ramel – Professor of Computer Science, Computer Laboratory, University of Tours |
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After a short introduction about the background issues, the challenges and opportunities in the automatic analysis and recognition of historical documents images, the tutorial will cover past and current initiatives for each stage in the automatic or semi-automatic processing, analysis and recognition of specific contents (text but also graphical/pictorial materials) that could be extracted from historical document images. For each of the stages (scanning, image enhancement, content segmentation, OCR and visual indexing), the main methods will be described and the challenges and possibilities for improvement examined. Original initiatives relying upon the analysis and exploitation of pattern redundancy and visual signatures instead of only focussing on the text transcription will be discussed. The examples of BVH/Paradiit project will be used to illustrate how such approaches could enable an efficient indexing and transcription of books as well as the identification of typographic materials. The last part deals with recent advances in Document Image Retrieval (DIR) and Machine Learning with potential applications of these techniques in the field of Digital Libraries. Two main paradigms will be described: retrieval by visual similarity and text-based retrieval. |
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Jean-Yves Ramel is Professor in Computer science at the University of Tours, Laboratoire d’Informatique / EA6300 – Polytech’Tours.
Personal webpage: http://www.rfai.li.univ-tours.fr/PagesPerso/jyramel/gb/default.htm |
Bibliotheca Digitalis Summer school: From pixels to content – Jean-Yves Ramel | SlideShare BVH
11:05 – 12:00 | Beyond the Page: enriching the digital library |
Lou Burnard – Co-funder of TEI, Oxford | |
Today’s digital library applications still focus on serving up virtual pages for the reader: the metaphor of the book is so pervasive that we can barely see it. But digital texts should go “beyond the page”. Self-evidently, digitization makes it possible to offer cheaper and more accessible simulations of printed or written pages. But this is not enough. Digital applications should enable us to do more with a text, or with a collection of texts, than simply read it from beginning to end, or attach annotations to it for others to read, or do brute force “text mining” on it. The content of the digital library must therefore be enriched, even if this requires the use of techniques which are not currently automatable. This talk considers the theoretical context within which such enrichment might be performed and outlines some practical solutions to the problems it involves. When a pre-existing document is digitized, a new kind of document is created. How should this object best be described? Calling on the traditional distinction between text and document, I shall argue that digitization and encoding alike represent the fixing and re-presentation of a set of readings or interpretations of the source. Flexible document grammars such as that of the TEI make it easier to share and integrate such interpretations and thus to build up complex information systems in which the distinction between text and data is increasingly elided. If time permits, I will present some examples showing how a TEI encoding of archival documents might support their integration with new or existing prosopographic or bibliographic systems, thus improving the sophistication of the types of analysis that can be made. |
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Formerly an Assistant Director at Oxford University Computing Services, Lou Burnard has worked in the Digital Humanities since the early 1970s and is one of the founding editors of the Text Encoding Initiative. Since retirement, he has worked with a number of DH projects in France, and taught courses for the BVH (CESR, Tours) and the Ecole Nationale des Chartes (Paris), amongst others. |
Bibliotheca Digitalis Summer school: Beyond the Page: enriching the digital library – Lou Burnard | SlideShare BVH
13:30 – 14:50 | Old Book Collections in Maine and Anjou |
City Library of Angers | |
Marc Edouard Gautier – Library curator, Médiathèque Toussaint d’Angers | |
La Bibliothèque municipale d’Angers a été instituée en 1798 à partir des bibliothèques confisquées pendant la révolution aux communautés ecclésiastiques et à quelques familles nobles d’Angers. Bibliothèque de lecture publique riche de plus de 750 000 livres, elle conserve plus de 40 000 livres antérieurs à 1 800 et environ 3 000 manuscrits qui témoignent notamment de l’histoire du livre et des bibliothèques en Anjou depuis l’époque carolingienne. Capitale politique de familles princières au fort rayonnement européen, et siège d’un évêché dès le IVe siècle, Angers abrite plusieurs abbayes et collégiales importantes dès le haut Moyen Âge. Elles ne semblent pas avoir immédiatement eu de scriptorium mais reçoivent dès le IXe siècle des livres de Bretagne et de Tours : 37 manuscrits carolingiens y subsistent ainsi. Scriptoria et premières bibliothèques s’y développent à partir du XIe siècle au moins. Parmi les manuscrits de la BM, ses 600 manuscrits médiévaux présentent une belle et intéressante homogénéité de provenance puisque plus de 270 proviennent assurément des deux abbayes Saint-Aubin et Saint-Serge d’Angers. L’école cathédrale réputée qui se développe également au XIe siècle est le noyau de l’université d’Angers, 5e université médiévale de France (après Paris, Orléans, Toulouse et Montpellier) qui reçoit ses pleins statuts dès 1337 avec d’abord une faculté de droit puis les 4 facultés à partir de 1432. L’école cathédrale puis l’Université sont à l’origine d’un autre ensemble important de manuscrits médiévaux conservé à Angers, notamment près d’une cinquantaine d’in-folios juridiques manuscrits. L’Université est également à l’origine d’une part importante des collections d’imprimés de l’époque moderne, notamment parmi les 2 000 imprimés antérieurs à 1 600. Les bibliothèques confisquées aux collégiales et couvents mendiants d’Angers témoignent aussi des dons ponctuels ou des legs de bibliothèques entières faits par de nobles angevins à la fin du Moyen Âge et tout au long de l’époque moderne. Deux des plus prestigieux des 120 incunables d’Angers en proviennent ainsi, comme le Psautier de Mayence, imprimé par Fust et Schoeffer en 1457, offert dès 1465 par le roi René au couvent des Franciscains de la Baumette ou le Kalendrier des bergers, jumeau de l’exemplaire offert par Antoine Vérard au roi Charles VIII, donné aux franciscain au XVIIIe siècle. Plus de 150 manuscrits médiévaux de la BM d’Angers sont entièrement en ligne sur Internet sur le site BVMM de l’IRHT mais les incunables et imprimés antérieurs à 1 600 d’Angers sont moins connus. Ils témoignent cependant de la richesse de l’activité intellectuelle engagée dès les années 1430 autour de la cour du roi René, poursuivie par le développement de l’université d’Angers, notamment de droit, et par de nouveaux établissements ecclésiastiques comme le couvent des franciscains de la Baumette, fondé par le roi René en 1456. Le projet des BHLi, bibliothèques humanistes ligériennes, rejoint et enrichit un travail mené depuis longtemps par la BM d’Angers : L’étude des provenances et des annotations de ces ouvrages devrait permettre de mieux connaître la pénétration dans la province d’Anjou d’enseignements de collèges parisiens, du renouvellement de l’enseignement universitaire notamment juridique en Anjou et du bagage culturel de la noblesse d’épée ou de robe de cette province. |
Bibliotheca Digitalis Summer school: Old Book Collections in Maine and Anjou. City Library of Angers – Marc Edouard Gautier | SlideShare BVH
Diocesan Library of Le Mans | |
Antoine Hamerel – Librarian responsible for the Diocesan Library of Le Mans |
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The Georges Grente library, belonging to the diocese of Le Mans, is a privately-owned collection open to all audiences. While specializing in religious matters, the collection includes a wide diversity of topics and originates from numerous sources. The collection numbers approximately 50,000 books, with the earliest dating from the end of the 15th century. Our stock of old books contains over 5,000 items related to the subjects of religious history, spirituality, liturgy, local history, and literature, and come from a variety of sources including major and minor seminaries, religious congregations, dioceses, personal clergy collections, private donations, etc. Due to events and laws in French history, our library inventory is linked to the public collection now curated in la Médiathèque Louis-Aragon du Mans. |
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Website: http://www.sarthe.catholique.fr/Bibliotheque-diocesaine |
The Library of the Prytanée national militaire, La Flèche | |
Sylvie Tisserand – Library curator, Library of the Prytanée nationale militaire, La Flèche |
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Abstract is coming soon. |
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Website: http://www.bibliotheque-du-prytanee.fr/ |
Bibliotheca Digitalis Summer school: Presentation | 1rst day | 2nd day | 3rd day | 4th day | 5th day
Projet partenarial BHLi (2016) – Equipex Biblissima (ANR-11-EQPX-0007)
Humanities at Scale has received funding from the European’s Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No 675570.
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