Visual approaches to cultural heritage

Organized by: CERL

Speaker(s): Andreas Kirstein,Anna Neovesky,Claudia Fabian,Cristina Dondi,Etienne Posthumus,Frédéric Kaplan,Hans Brandhorst,Maria Widmer,Matilde Malaspina,Matthias Bixler,Meda Diana Hotea,Stefan Wiederkehr,William O. Duba

A one-day seminar on ‘Visual approaches to cultural heritage’ was held at the ETH-Bibliothek.

The ‘icon turn’ has re-focused the attention of scholars from texts to visual material and its interpretation. Image-based search tools to sources and the visual presentation of research results have, however, not emerged equally fast.

Programme

– 08.30: Registration and Coffee

Welcome and Opening Remarks
– 09.00-09.15: Andreas Kirstein, Deputy Director, ETH Library and Kristian Jensen, Chairman, CERL

Introduction
– 09.15-09.30: Stefan Wiederkehr (Head of Collections and Archives, ETH Library, Zurich): Introduction

Panel 1: Access to sources

– 09.30-10.15: Meda Diana Hotea (ETH Library, Zurich): ETH Library’s visual and map-based access to selected digital information resources: presentation
– 10.15-11.00: William O. Duba/Maria Widmer (University of Fribourg): e-codices and Fragmentarium. Building for and building upon the interoperability paradigm: presentation
– 11.00-11.30: Coffee
– 11.30-12.15: Claudia Fabian (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich): Image-based Similarity Search at Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
– 12.15-13.00: Hans Brandhorst/Etienne Posthumus (Brill, Leiden): Arkyves – a serendipity engine
– 13.00-14.30: Lunch

Panel 2: Visualisation of research results

– 14.30-15.15: Matthias Bixler (University of Zurich): Connecting the Dots. The Use of Visualisations in Historical Network Research: presentation
– 15.15-16.00: Matilde Malaspina/Cristina Dondi (15cBOOKTRADE, Oxford and CERL): Tracking and visualising the circulation of books and of illustrations: 15cV and 15cILLUSTRATION: presentation
– 16.00-16.30: Coffee
– 16.30-17.15: Frédéric Kaplan (EPF Lausanne): Why Europe should build a Time Machine
– 17.15-18.00: Anna Neovesky (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz): Visual Approaches to the Presentation and Analysis of Text Corpora: Case Studies on Digital Collections of Medieval and Early Modern Sources.
– 19.30: Dinner (for those who have registered their attendance)