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Summer school Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data (Le Mans)

Summer school Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data (Le Mans)

Publié le par Université de Lausanne (Source : Sandrine Breuil)

Applications for the Summer School « Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data » are open until April, 30th.

Place: Médiathèque Louis-Aragon, Le Mans (France)
Dates: July 4-8, 2017

With the support of  Humanities at Scale (DARIAH-EU) and the City of Le Mans, and in partnership with Biblissima and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance of Tours.

Organized by the members of the « Bibliothèques Humanistes Ligériennes » Project (Biblissima)

  • Médiathèque municipale Louis-Aragon (Le Mans)
  • Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (Tours)
  • École nationale des chartes (Paris)
  • City Library of Angers
  • Library of the Prytanée national Militaire (La Flèche)
  • Library of the Diocese of Le Mans
  • Société d’agriculture, sciences et arts de la Sarthe

Training courses & Application (ENG)

> Programme & inscriptions (FR)

 

Workshop Goals

Introductory training in the application of digital methods to Early Modern Historical documents

  • Digital transformation of raw textual data
  • Extraction and indexing of onomastic and bibliographical data
  • Alignment with prosopographic and bibliographic authority files

Presentation of computation tools and methods for historical or literary analysis, focussing on

  • Data relevance
  • Interoperability
  • Statistical and visual representations of data

This summer school for advanced humanities students, scholars, archivists and librarians is devoted to the reflection on the nature and the future of digital datasets in Humanities. The 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. Subsequent days will alternate presentations in the morning with practical workshops in the afternoons. Participants will learn how to process source documents in a digital environment using appropriate tools. A variety of sample source documents, selected from local libraries and archives collections and digitized in advance, will be available as supporting materials for the workshops. Output from the workshops will be compared with the workflow followed for the “Bibliotheques françoises” database, which documents many notable people of Maine and Anjou, as described by the late XVIth Century local writer François Grudé, sieur de La Croix du Maine. Public lectures will close each of the three days, given by internationally-recognised experts on different aspects of the Bibliotheca Digitalis. The Saturday morning session will permit discussion and reflection concerning the future of digital cultural heritage and of data in the Humanities.

Prerequisites

  • Education in English. Public lectures in French (early evening sessions).
  • Basic knowledge of French and Latin recommended.
  • Please bring a laptop computer (software to be installed will be specified after confirmation of application).
  • Active participation: Each participant will present his or her research and its context on the Tuesday afternoon, using 2 previously-prepared slides as a visual aid.

Target Audience

  • Public: Scholars (History, Book history, Literature, Philosophy, Digital humanities, etc.), Librarians and Archivists, Graduate and PhD Students
  • This summer school aims to develop the community of a pan-european infrastructure for arts and humanities scholars DARIAH-EU (preference will be given to applications from european countries).

Application deadline: 30th April 2017
Participants will be informed of the outcome of their application by email by 15th May 2017.

Selection based on application (online)
Minimum number of participants: 10. Maximum number: 20.

Selection Committee
Applications will be evaluated by a selection panel comprised of the training staff members.

Grants – Transport
European applications: DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale project will offer a grant program to 10 attendees (up to the maximum of 600€ after the training school, upon presentations of the receipts.

Accommodation and food
The course, accommodation and food are completely free for participants. The travel costs as well as meals on Monday evening and Saturday lunchtime are, however, to be borne by the participants.

> Training courses & Application

 

Contact: bibliotheca.digitalis@univ-tours.fr