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*Digital Diplomatics - International conference, Munich 2007, 28.2.-2.3.*

*Expose*

Charters are the main source of information for research in medieval 
history. Thus scholarly editions of them have a fine tradition. There 
are already large collections of medieval charters printed. But 
nevertheless, the collections of unpublished charters available in 
archives ars still much larger than the number of charters printed.

Diplomatics are already very near to the digital world. The scholarly 
work with charters rather seems to have started early to use the 
computer. Whereas the work done in the 1970s focussed on statistical 
analysis of charters the scholars of the last decade swept toward 
electronic publishing of charters, in both well known mainstreams of 
"retrodigitazation" and new "digital editions". The conference plans to 
bring together researchers from Europe and North America who work with 
medieval and early modern charters as well as professionals concerned 
with conservation and custody of original charters, copies or printed 
editions of charters in the archives and libraries. We hope to establish 
a fruitful discussion between people carrying out projects, researchers 
theorizing about historical computing and primary sources and scholars 
in the field of diplomatics who are interested in the use of the 
computer for their work.

During the conference the attendees will get the opportunity to present 
their projects and to take stand on more generic questions. The 
conference will be divided in two blocks:

    1. Planning and managing a digitazition project
    2. How does digital presentation of charters affect the scholarly 
work with charters?

The first block "Planning and managing a digitazition project" will 
adress issues like planning the work load, conservation of the 
originals, useful hardware and software tools, how to organize public 
access to the material, quality of images etc.

The second block "How does digital presentation of charters affect the 
scholarly work with charters?" will deal with questions like the following:

     * Does the presentation of a charter via the WWW change the methods 
and questions of diplomatics?
     * Does the transformation of diplomatic concepts into data models 
affect the concepts of diplomatics? Are the methods to build data models 
already provided by computer science sufficient for the observations 
made by scholars in the field of diplomatics?

*URL*

http://www.geschichte.lmu.de/ghw/digDipl07/index_en.shtml

*Call for papers*

Send your proposal for a paper or a poster (not more than 1 page) to the 
contact adress before Sept. 1st. 2006. Please include

     * a short cv
     * a proposal for classification in the sections "Archives", 
"Editing", "Techniques", "Research with digitized charters"

*Contact*

Dr. Georg Vogeler

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtität
Historisches Seminar
Abt. Geschichtliche Hilfswissenschaften
Geschwister-Scholl-Pl. 1
D - 80539 München
Tel.: +49 89 2180 3784, Fax: +49 89 2180 2084
e-Mail: g.vogeler<at>lrz.uni-muenchen.de
http://www.geschichte.lmu.de/ghw/personen_vogeler.shtml