DARC/CCH Conference

DARC/CCH Conference

21 (Fri), 22 (Sat) Nov. 2008

Programme

Sponsored jointly by the Digital Archive Research Center (DARC, Keio University)
and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH, King’s College, London)

Joint Keio-KCL Research Day: Manuscripts and Digital Editions in the Humanities

Friday 21 November 2008
Venue: Old Committee Room, Strand Campus

Note: attendance by invitation

8:45-9.15 Registration & coffee

9:15-9:30 Introduction and welcome

Keio/DARC Presentations

9:30-10:00 Photographic Expeditions to Foreign Repositories for Collaborative Digitization of Rare Books (Masaaki Kashimura, DARC)

10:00-10:30 XML Digital Editions of 16th-c. Illustrated Books (Takami Matsuda, DARC)

10:30-10:45 Coffee/tea

10:45-11:15 Digital Archiving of the 'Naraehon' (Mayumi Ikeda for Toru Ishikawa, DARC)

11:15-11:45 Digital Image Analysis of Caxton's Printing Technology (Satoko Tokunaga, DARC)

11:45-12:15 Domain of 'The Work of Art' as Archival Content (Sen Uesaki, DARC)

12:15-12:45 Discussion

12:45-13:30 Lunch (Somerset Room, Strand Campus)

KCL/CCH Presentations

13:30-14:00 Dead Sea Scrolls (Simon Tanner, CCH)

14:00-14:30 Digital Paleography (Peter Stokes, CHH)

14:30-14:45 Coffee/tea

14:45-15:15 Digital Epigraphy (Charlotte Roueché, CCH)

15:15-16:15 Manuscript Projects in CCH: Anglo-Saxon Charters; Fine Rolls; DIAMM; Chopin; Austen; NCSE (Elena Pierazzo, Harold Short, Paul Vetch, CCH)

16:15-17:00 Discussion

17:00-17:15 Conclusion

17:15-19:00 Reception (Somerset Room, Strand Campus)

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DARC/CCH Symposium: Digitization of the Gutenberg Bible - Retrospect & Prospect
Saturday 22 November 2008
Venue: Room 2B08, Strand Campus

Note: attendance by pre-registration

9:15 Introduction and welcome
Chair: Toshiyuki Takamiya (Director of DARC)

9:30-10:15 Facsimiles of the Gutenberg Bible as Research Tools (Paul Needham, Princeton)

10:25-10:45 Discussion

10:45-11:00 Coffee/tea

11:05-11:30 The Digital Gutenberg Bible and the Incunable Collection at the British Library (John Goldfinch,BL); respondent: William Hale (Cambridge University Library)

11:45-12:10 Incunable Digitization at Munich: From the Gutenberg Bible to Mass Digitization (Bettina Wagner, BSB); respondent: William Hale (Cambridge University Library)

12:25-12:45 Discussion

12:45-13:00 Closing address (Harold Short, CCH)

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