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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 it to secretariat@cerl.org.
Participants in the seminar are warmly invited to join the conference dinner, at their own expense. The dinner will be 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.
Programme
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)