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Colloque : Novel approaches to Digital Codicology | 10-12 mai 2023, CESR, Tours

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Date(s) : du 10 mai 2023 au 12 mai 2023

Lieu : CESR (Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance)

Despite the advancements in digitization, the study of books as objects, for the most part, still relies on autoptic investigations because traditional digitization transmediates only limited information regarding an object’s materiality. Autoptic observations are not always possible, and this has become even more evident and relevant with the pandemic crisis of Covid-19. While significant progress has been made in accessing written heritage through digitization efforts (IIIF, TEI), the digitization of the material features of books is still lagging and at the experimental phase. The availability of great numbers of textual data has permitted the development of distant reading techniques to discover patterns in texts and the utilization of artificial intelligence to read manuscripts (HTR) and printed books (OCR) en mass. The availability of digital data on the materiality of books would extend these practices to the book as an object. Recently, some projects have brought forward novel approaches to the digitization of material features of books but we lack a comprehensive methodology capable of bringing it together in a coherent research field: digital codicology. In the first two and a half days of the event, eminent scholars at the forefront of material digitization efforts will present their research. The last half-day will be dedicated to a round table and a working group to discuss and set the groundwork for a white paper on what digital codicology is and still needs to become the overarching field we foresee.

Rémi Jimenes (CESR-BVH) et Thierry Brouard (LIFAT) interviendront conjointement le jeudi 11 mai dans la Session 5 : Book Culture and Digital Paractices (II) pour présenter le lancement des travaux engagés dans le cadre de l’ANR TypoReF : TypoReF project : studying French Renaissance typography using digital images.

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TEI Conference 2018 : Bibliotheques françoises as a virtual workshop for the Literary History of Early Modern France

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À l’occasion de la Conférence internationale 2018 du Consortium TEI qui se tiendra du 9 au 13 septembre 2018, à Tokyo (Japon), Toshinori Uetani – ingénieur de recherche  CNRS au CESR, et Guillaume Porte, représenteront l’équipe des BVH lors de la session « Digital Archives ». Ils y exposeront la réflexion et les travaux de longue haleine mis en œuvre  dans le cadre du projet « Bibliothèques françoises » (Equipex Biblissima / APR ECRISA, MSH Val de Loire / Consortium CAHIER) mené par l’équipe du programme de recherche BVH au travers d’une communication intitulée : “Bibliotheques françoises” as a virtual workshop for the Literary History of Early Modern France. Continuer la lecture →

The BVH in Tours: digital library of image, text and data – TEI Conference Wien, September 30th 2016

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The BVH in Tours: digital library of image, text and data[1]

TEI Conference
Wien, September 30th 2016

Sandrine Breuil, Mathieu Duboc, Guillaume Porte et Toshinori Uetani

1-1 BVH

The Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes (BVH, or Virtual Humanistic Libraries) are a research project run since 2002 at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France (CESR, or Center for Advanced Renaissance Studies) in collaboration not only with academic partners like the Humanism Section of the IRHT, the computer science team of the University of Tours or some linguistic laboratories of Tours, Lyons or Poitiers, but also with Libraries and Archives mainly from the French Centre Region.

1-2 Main goal

The objective of the BVH is clearly stated in 2003.  It has never changed since: “to develop a digital library of original documents of the Renaissance period, delivering two types of reliable digital representations, facsimile and text, closely linked together”[2].  Fidelity to the original document has always guided our choices.  A facsimile contains in principle the entire part of the original document including binding, blank pages, end-papers, edges or back.  We describe as precisely as possible its bibliographical and codicological states in order to guarantee the authenticity of its digital version.  In the Epistemon corpus, XVIth century French texts are transcribed directly from the original documents.  The encoding schema of our specific TEI-Renaissance guidelines is adapted to the spelling and punctuation of the XVIth century French and the page layout of the Early Modern prints. This scrupulous fidelity to the original document makes our TEI files sometimes very complex. Continuer la lecture →