This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14302 “Digital Palaeography: New Machines and Old Texts”, which focused on the interaction of Palaeography and computerized tools developed in Computer Vision for the analysis of digital images. This seminar intertwined research reports from the most advanced teams in the field and interdisciplinary discussions on the potent...

purpose: this study aimed to investigate the status of the open access policies of highly-ranked digital repositories in the world’s universities by identifying the policies regarding the components of submission, content, data, meta-data, preservation, and access. methodology: this survey was descriptive-analytical. data was collected by administrating a researcher-made questionnaire completed...

The aim of this study is to analyse and describe the impact of digital devices with a mult imodal character on chi ldren's creations of narrative texts. The focus will be on the process of creating texts, the conditions for creating texts and the results, the texts. Text is seen as multimodal and the theoretical approach is social semiotics. The method will involve a multimodal didactic design ...

In this paper I will explore the entropy of the Latin language with a particular eye towards the differences in entropy between authors and between times when Latin was a living language. I expect to find that not only are the texts of authors discernible by their entropies, but that there is a gradual change in the entropy of the language from the earliest Latin texts until later ’Church Latin...

Current approaches in Digital .Humanities tend to ignore a central aspect of any hermeneutic introspection: the intrinsic vagueness of analyzed texts. Especially when dealing with historical documents neglecting vagueness has important implications on the interpretation of the results. In this paper we present current limitation of annotation approaches and describe a current methodology for an...

Stéfan Sinclair and Stan Ruecker / © ctr 127 Summer 2006 Based on a consideration of the vast majority of electronic texts currently available (especially on the Internet), it would be easy to conclude that electronic texts are merely digital counterparts to print-based texts, albeit in a much more convenient format for indexing (as Google does) and interlinking (as HTML – the common formatting...

The aim of this study was to determine ICT literacy levels using a situated approach, targeting the functional understanding of technical terms contained in digital everyday culture texts. A cohort of 70 first year undergraduate Education students participated in the study. The assessment task included writing definitions for 47 technical terms which were derived from a series of digital texts,...

Stability in the production and transmission of texts has been a taken-for-granted feature of communicative acts for much of history. In the past, this fixity (i.e., the reliability of texts not to change over space and time) has arisen from the interaction between immutable technologies (used to produce text) and social rigidity (in the structure and practices of discourse communities where te...