Delegating the chore of data entry is not a new idea. In the past, physicians have utilized dictation software and transcriptionists to document patient records. As more and more hospitals and private practitioners are transitioning to an electronic medical record to be in compliance with “meaningful use,” a new class of medical professional has emerged to alleviate the burden of documentation....

Like medieval European literature, written poetry in Tang-dynasty .China was always produced, and almost always circulated and received, by means of handwritten manuscripts. Yet while scholars of medieval European literature have devoted considerable attention to the issues at stake when approaching texts produced before the age of print, research on Tang poetry, whether in Asia or the West, ha...

This paper addresses the issue of attributing pieces of medieval handwriting to scribes known from other examples of writing. The system is applied to manuscript page images and performs extraction and comparison of letter shapes. Letters and sequences of connected letters are identified by means of connected component labeling. This is followed by further splitting into letter-size pieces. The...

interesting comments by earlier owners and readers. There are two appendices, one of documents, the other an up-to-date catalogue of Giovanni's manuscripts that supersedes those by Zazzeri and by Baader. Detailed attention is given to matters codicological, although information on Giovanni's scribes is not always easy to locate in the dense entries. Splendid photographs, of the library, of Giov...