Annual-Report-2019

SCHOLARLY DIGITAL EDITING PRIMARY SOURCES
OF INFORMATION FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
Scholarly Digital Editing (SDE) of our primary sources of information
for cultural heritage constitutes one of the core components of Digital
Humanities.
Human & Social Sciences 2019
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Dr Marion Lamé
LE STUDIUM Research Fellow
ARD 2020 INTELLIGENCE DES PATRIMOINES
Programme
From: Networked Multimedia Information
Systems (NeMIS), ISTI-CNR - IT
In residence at: Centre for Advanced Studies
in the Renaissance (CESR) - Tours
Nationality: French
Dates: July 2019 to June 2020
Marion Lamé is an Associate Researcher at the
Nemis group (ISTI-CNR). Her research focuses on
digital epigraphy as primary sources for cultural
heritage, research for which the Franco-Italian
University previously awarded her both its doctoral
grants (Vinci II and III) for her double PhD at the
universities of Bologne and Aix-Marseille. She
also graduated in Digital Humanities (University
of Venice, Italian Government Research Grant)
and she now teaches Digital Humanities at the
CESR. She won several grants for high quality
research in international conferences and has
published in History, Computer Science and
Digital Humanities journals and proceedings. She
also coordinated the team hosted by the IMERA
Institute of advanced studies for the project Outil
numérique: pédagogie scientifique et médiation
du patrimoine culturel #INPM, manages the
Tesserarum Sisciae Sylloge digital edition of the
AMZ, and co-coordinates the Inscriptions work
package of the H2020 ARIADNEplus project.
Prof. Benoist Pierre
Host scientist
Benoist Pierre is a full Professor (First Class) at the
University of Tours. In 2016, he has been elected
Director of the CESR (UFR and UMR 7323) and of
I-Pat (Intelligence des Patrimoines Programme)
for five year, led by the CESR which involves several
hundred researchers and more than 40 laboratories
in the Centre-Val de Loire Region. His research work,
which was initially on the relations between religion
and politics in modern-era Europe, is currently being
developed within the CESR according to three axes
(i) the analysis of court societies and their relation to
the State in modern Europe; (ii) the study of heritage
and more particularly châteaux heritage in the Val de
Loire; (iii) the notion of mediatisation and promotion
of sciences principally on culture, heritage and
humanities. Prof. B. Pierre has published 12 books,
60 papers in international peer review journals and
presented 70 public talks.
The roots of this new research lie in
the results of our first experimental
attempt that consisted in applying
digital methods to the edition of the
so-called Res Gestae Divi Augusti.
More than fifty traditional editions of
this triumphal and highly complex
display have been published since
the end of the XIXth century. Each
generation of philologists, historians,
archaeologists and classicists renews
and deepens our understanding
of both the contextualized
archaeological monuments, i.e.
the temple of Augustus and Rome
in Ancyra and the other artifacts
discovered in the XXth century, as
well as the Augustean text they carry.
Thus, they appear as a complex, complementary as well as lacunary set of
inscriptions in both Latin and ancient Greek languages. This study brought
out that working on scholarly editing from a digital point of view requires an
additional digital model, the editing one, to bridge the gap between traditional
modus operandi and computational methods. The new goals consist in
transferring the method on other types of primary sources in order to test, to
adapt as well as to improve it. During this fellowship, this SDE methodological
framework is being improved through collaboration with the following
projects of the University of Tours: Arviva (#ROSER), CoReMa, RENUMAR,
Ricercar, as well as the MASA consortium. It has been progressively built
up for the last seventeen years in contact with specialized projects such as
Perseus Project, Les inscriptions grecques du Louvre, Musisque Deoque as
well as within institutional collaboration, among which the Archaeological
Museum in Zagreb, the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, the Visual
Computing Laboratory (CNR) and the Laboratorio di Cultura Digitale
(University of Pisa). In this context, digital editions have the potential to
register explicitly some editorial choices between the primary source and
its interpretations, for instance, when the relations between the scholarly
process and the primary source require some visual investigations or result
in some audio performance. The research focuses on a twofold aspect:
the evidence-based editorial practice combined with the scholarly level of
modelling that is required as an additional layer to the traditional stacks of
any computer system. This study does this by following a first selection of
two lines of inquiries: the visual representation and the expert’s expression,
focusing on the processing possibilities (machine learning) of the export and
following the FAIR principles. Firstly, Digital Autoptic Processes (DAP), based
on Visual Computing and annotation technologies, are used to register the
decision made by an editor and doing so associates observable features in
a machine readable format (e.g.: some written signs on a manuscript to the
corresponding transcription). Secondly, the expert’s expression is edited so
it can become machine readable (i.e. controlled vocabularies, ontologies).
Heterotoki 2.0, online service for scholarly digital editing the working
expression, will manage a dual structural heterogeneity of the datasets.
Recent highlights include publications about Digital Autoptic Processes
(5TH IEEE CIST’18), Digital Working Terminologies (ODOCH19 and DH19) as
well as temporal relationships to our cultural past and concept drift (1ST
WODHSA19). This position as a Le Studium Research Fellow is funded by the
ARD 2020 Intelligence des Patrimoines programme.