Futures of Legacy Data in Historical French

The workshop will be held in person at University College London and will be transmitted via video link. Registration is strictly necessary for both formats. Please choose the type of ticket you require when registering on this page. Instructions on how to access the building (photo ID required) or the Zoom link will be emailed to participants on Sunday 22 September.

Based on the experiences of creation and reuse of datasets produced as part of a number of high profile research projects in Medieval French, the workshop will address the following questions:

• How do we encourage re-use of databases?
• How to ensure digital longevity and accessibility of historical datasets?
• How, as we are doing projects, do we frame them in ways that will enable further, different uses of our data?
• How do we encourage researchers to revisit existing projects creatively?
• How do we fund these enterprises?

1:00-1:30 Arrival (tea and coffee)

1:30-1:40 Introduction by Jane Gilbert (UCL)

Session 1 (Chaired by Natasha Romanova)

1:40-2:00 Transforming digital Legacy Estate to create a more sustainable Future by Samantha Callaghan (King’s Digital Lab, KCL), Brian Maher (Advanced Research Computing, UCL) and Pamela Mellen (King’s Digital Lab, KCL)

2:00-2:10 Learning from the experiences of the (MFLCOF) project (2011-2015) by Jane Gilbert (UCL), Neil Jakeman (King’s Digital Lab, KCL) and Nicola Morato (Bergamo University).

2:10-2:20 Reusing (2008-2010) data for identification of scribes by Godfried Croenen (Flanders Heritage Library, University of Liverpool), Mike Kestemont (Antwerp University) and Caroline Vandyck (Antwerp University)

2:20-2:30 (TVOF), , and digital palaeography by Sebastian Dows-Miller (Oxford University)

2.30-2.50 Discussion (questions on papers)

2:50-3:00 Short break

Session 2 (Chaired by Sebastian Dows-Miller)

3:00-3:10 Using (2015-2020) data for syntactic analysis of the textual tradition of the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César by Simone Ventura (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona) and Natasha Romanova (University of Caen)

3:10-3:20 Not just data: Reusing software in the Canoniser les Sept Sages (C7S) project (2021-2025) by Camille Carnaille (ULB Brussels, Geneva University) ONLINE

3:20-3:40 Discussion (questions on papers)

3:40-4.10 Break (tea and coffee)

Session 3 (Chaired by Simone Ventura)

4:10-4:30 The Value of Open Datasets for Medieval Studies by Laura Morreale (Founder, Digital Documentation Process)

4:30-5:40 General Discussion moderated by Simone Ventura (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)

5:40-5:55 Concluding Remarks by Godfried Croenen (Flanders Heritage Library, University of Liverpool)

6:00 End of the workshop

Noah’s Ark ("Histoire Ancienne jusqu'à César", Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château, 726, f. 4rb. Source: BVMM)

Host or Publisher Natasha Romanova