New subject: Reminder: CFP for El’Manuscript-2020 (Freiburg, Germany, 13–17 September 2020)

15 Oct 2019


      Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Textual Heritage and Information Technologies
El’Manuscript-2020
Freiburg, Germany
13-17 September 2020
http://elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de/
First Call for Papers
We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the 
El’Manuscript-2020 international conference on the creation and 
development of information systems for storage, description, processing, 
analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern handwritten and 
printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the 
creation or application of these resources — including researchers; 
instructors; staff of libraries, museums, and archives; programmers, and 
undergraduate and graduate students — is welcome to participate. 
El’Manuscript-2020 is the eighth in a series of biennial international 
conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” 
that brings together linguists, specialists in historical source 
criticism, IT specialists, and others involved in publishing and 
studying our textual heritage. Along with the lectures, a summer school 
will be part of the conference, which will allow practitioners to become 
familiar with various technologies, approaches and methods for working 
with manuscripts. The working language of the 2020 conference is 
English. In the philological sections, talks in Russian are welcome, but 
should be accompanied by slides in English. Papers presented at the 
conference will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the 
textualheritage.org website.
The working language of the 2020 conference is English. In the 
philological sections, talks in Russian are welcome, but should be 
accompanied by slides in English. Papers presented at the conference 
will be published in a volume of proceedings and on the 
textualheritage.org website.
*Conference topics*
1. The physical document – Material and technology
    ● Codicology
    ● Instrumental analysis
    ● Visual observation of documents
    ● Recognition of relevant features of historic book binding techniques
    ● Water mark data base
    ● DNA analysis
    ● …
 2. The script – Recognition and analysis
    ● Palaeography
    ● Photographing
    ● Visualization
    ● Digitisation
 3. Handwritten Text Recognition, Optical Character Recognition
 4. ● …
 5. The text – its processing and presentation
    ● Textology and textual criticism
    ● Digital editions
    ● Digital publishing
    ● Text markup formats
    ● Lemmatization and morphological markup
    ● …
 6. Beyond document, script, and text – analytics and interpretation
    ● Digital libraries and databases
    ● Corpora
    ● Storage formats and long term storage
    ● Lexicography
    ● Data mining and statistics
    ● Written cultural heritage and Artificial Intelligence
    ● Navigation and access
    ● Web technologies
    ● Open science
    ● …
*General Information*
*Conference dates*: 13-17 September 2020
*Venue*: University of Freiburg
*Postal Address*: Slavisches Seminar, Werthmannstr. 14, 79098 Freiburg, 
Germany
*Organization Committee Chair*: Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus, Prof. Dr. Viktor 
A. Baranov, Prof. Dr. Heinz Miklas, Prof. Dr. Aleksandr M. Moldovan
*Contact person*: Dr. Christine Grillborzer
*E-mail* (Organization Committee): 
elmanuscript2020@slavistik.uni-freiburg.de
*Conference Website*: www.elmanuscript2020.uni-freiburg.de
*Abstract submission*
Abstracts are limited to 200 words and should include the following 
information:
● Paper title;
● 5-7 keywords;
● Author’s (authors’) first and last names;
● Affiliation (institution);
● Educational status or degree obtained (student, postgraduate student, 
PhD, professor, etc.)
Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2020**
*Reviewing*: The abstracts submitted to the conference will be 
peer-reviewed. The reviewers’ comments will be transmitted to the authors.
Notifications of acceptance by the Program Committee will be sent by 
email by the end of April. The accepted abstracts will be published 
before the conference.
*Registration* opens May 1 and ends June 30 2020.
*Registration fee*: The organisation committee is making every effort to 
keep the registration fee for the conference to a minimum. The precise 
fee will be announced by January 2020.
*Scholarships*: A limited number of (partial) scholarships for 
participants from non-Western countries will be available. We will 
circulate information on how to apply for these scholarships in due 
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First CFP for El’Manuscript-2020 (Freiburg, Germany * 13–17 September 2020)