Visual approaches to cultural heritage

CERL Seminar at ETH Zurich on Wednesday 14 March 2018

Attendance is free, but please complete the registration form and send to at secretariat@cerl.org.

Participants in the seminar are warmly invited to join the conference dinner, at their own expense. The dinner will be at at Restaurant Zeughauskeller, Bahnhofstrasse 28 A, Beim Paradeplatz, CH-8001 Zürich. Vegetarian €50, fish €55 and meat €60 (incl. drinks). http://www.zeughauskeller.ch/en/home

A list of hotels may be downloaded here.

The programme with directions is available here.

VISUAL APPROACHES TO CULTURAL HERITAGE

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

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

10.15-11.00 William O. Duba/Maria Widmer (University of Fribourg): e-codices and Fragmentarium. Building for and building upon the interoperability paradigm

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

15.15-16.00 Matilde Malaspina (15cBOOKTRADE, Oxford): Image-search and text-search applied to 15th-century illustration

16.00-16.30 Coffee

16.30-17.15 Cristina Dondi (15cBOOKTRADE, Oxford and CERL): Tracking and visualizing the movement of books over time and space: Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) and 15cV

17.15-18.00 To be confirmed.

19.30 Dinner (for those who have registered their attendance)