Textual Heritage and Information Technologies – Call For Papers

Textual Heritage and Information Technologies
El’Manuscript-2014
Varna, Bulgaria
15-20 September 2014

We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2014 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, processing, description, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern hand-written and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or analysis of these resources is welcome to participate.

El’Manucsript-2014 is the fifth in a series of biennial international conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” (http://textualheritage.org). The programme of the conference traditionally includes tutorials, lectures, and computer classes for young scholars and students. The working languages of the 2014 conference are English, Bulgarian and Russian, and papers presented at the Conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the http://textualheritage.org website.

Selected papers in English will be published in a special issue of the Digital Medievalist Journal (http://digitalmedievalist.org/journal/) and, if written in Bulgarian, English or Russian, Palaeobulgarica.

The fifth conference is a joint event of the Textual Heritage and Digital Medievalist scholarly communities. It is co-organized by Izhevsk State Technical University (Russia) and the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and supported by the Sustainable Development of Bulgaria Foundation.

Conference topics:

  • Digital resources based on scholarly methods.
  • Scholarly methods based on digital resources.
  • Problems of information technologies and computer simulation related to research in the fields of linguistics, textology, paleography, source criticism, etc.
  • Digital libraries and archives, databases, electronic descriptions and catalogues, thesauri and ontologies.
  • Technologies of creation of full-text digital collections and libraries.
  • Technologies providing navigation and access to digital libraries.
  • Computer lexicography.
  • Formats for storage, deep markup of texts and for data exchange.
  • Using XML and TEI in processing and publishing digital resources.
  • Web technologies in electronic publishing.
  • Visualizing digital resources.
  • Computer-based historical source criticism.
  • Technologies and methods for OCR of manuscripts and old-printed texts.
  • Methods and tools for using digital collections, libraries, catalogues, and databases in research and education.
  • Digital editions, collections and libraries of manuscripts and early printed books.
  • Historical and diachronic corpora

Application form: proposals for the conference should be sent to elmanuscript@abv.bg.
and should include the following information:

  • Paper title;
  • 5-10 keywords;Author’s first and last names;
  • Affiliation (institution);
  • Educational status or degree (student, post-graduate student, PhD, professor, etc.)
  • Text of the abstract in an attached file (see formatting requirements here)

Deadline for submission of application forms and abstracts: 1 April 2014.

For more information, please visit the conference website: http://textualheritage.org/en/2014.html