Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	102
Title	Beneath the Surface: Can Data Mining Help Us Estimate Manuscript Production and Loss?
Date/Time	Monday 4 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Organiser	Jean-Baptiste Camps, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH), Università Ca' Foscari Venezia / École Nationale des Chartes, Paris
Moderator/Chair	Ariane Pinche, Centre Jean-Mabillon, École Nationale des Chartes, Université de Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres
Paper 102-a	Heigh-Ho!: Mining Catalogues for Traces of Medieval Romance Manuscripts (Language: English) Jean-Baptiste Camps, Venice Centre for Digital & Public Humanities (VeDPH), Università Ca' Foscari Venezia / École Nationale des Chartes, Paris Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 102-b	Manuscripts and the 'Long Middle Ages': Mining Sale Catalogues of the 19th Century (Language: English) Simon Gabay, Faculté des Lettres, Université de Genève Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 102-c	Stemmas Posit Lost Manuscripts: How Can We Harness This Method? - Icelandic Romances as a Case Study (Language: English) Alaric Hall, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of English, University of Leeds Index Terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	Assessing what remains from the past is at the core of any understanding of historical sources, because representativeness of data is at the basis of scientific reasoning. To address this problem, scholars have been producing inventories, catalogues, or databases for more than two centuries. Could these resources help us in sketching a global picture of what was and what has been lost? This session will explore how we can mine both digitised and natively digital resources, using computational methods, to obtain indications or estimates of documentary loss and production rates.