Through digital palaeography, engineering sciences and humanities meet to tackle challenges that are core to both areas. For engineering and computer scientists, the domains of investigation are: image enhancement, text-image alignment, automated reading for ancient languages, modelling for ontologies, collection and incorporation of user-feedback. For historians of writing and scripts, the domains of investigation comprise: reading, datation and localisation, graphical analysis and classification of scripts, identification of the mechanisms of evolution of scripts. At the crossroads of these field-specific interests, the collaboration between these fields presents its own challenges in the form of heuristic, cognitive, and epistemological questions, which naturally also require investigation. As the methods in these epistemic cultures differ widely, questions of ergonomy, visualization, and foremost, of interpretation of the results warrant further investigation, thereby taking on a preponderant position on the collaborative research agenda. This seminar aims to gather researchers from these various disciplines so that they can share their progress and deepen their mutual engagement with and understanding of the methods, processes, and tools of the different research teams present.

Dates:

21^st – 26^th November 2016 (arrivals on 21^st; departures on 26^th).

Location:

Fondation des Treilles, in Provence (F).

Background:

This seminar builds upon a number of previous events, including the following:

• 2014 Dagstuhl seminar 14302 [report]
• 2012 Dagstuhl perspectives workshop 12382 [report]
• 2011 ESF exploratory workshop in Würzburg [report]

This seminar is supported by the "Fondation des Treilles".

It is organised by Dr Dominique Stutzmann (Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes, Paris) and Dr Ségolène Tarte (E-Research Centre, University of Oxford).