MEDEA Panel @ DH 2016 in Krakow
On Friday, July 15, 11.30 a.m.-1 p.m., there will be a MEDEA panel at the Digital Humanities 2016 in Krakow. The location is room BJ at the Jagiellonian Library. Kathryn Tomasek1, Georg Vogeler2, Kathrin...
Modeling semantically Enriched Digital Edition of Accounts
On Friday, July 15, 11.30 a.m.-1 p.m., there will be a MEDEA panel at the Digital Humanities 2016 in Krakow. The location is room BJ at the Jagiellonian Library. Kathryn Tomasek1, Georg Vogeler2, Kathrin...
The deadline for the call for papers to the second MEDEA Workshop, to take place at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, April 6-8, 2016, is extended to January 22, 2016. Do not miss it!
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“From 1680 until 1791, only one theater troupe in Paris was allowed to perform the plays of Molière, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, and every other French-language playwright. This troupe, the Comédie-Française, played the works of...
“The paper will expand on a generic model of digital editing in which several layers of perception and documentation could be distinguished: a visual layer, a textual and the content i.e. the world to...
“A nineteenth century biographer of Thomas Jefferson described him as “a gentleman … who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, dance...
1. Comparing single- and double-entry accounting Accounting, as an element of culture, adapts to the organizational and social context. This presentation describes the difference between single- and double-entry accounting, and explains how each approach...
“This presentation will look at the basic methods available for encoding financial records following the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, including the benefits and limitations, through an examination of two projects with significant...
“It is a widespread practice among language historians to consider documents written in administrative language as more or less inferior compared to documents in common registers. Recurring stereotypes concern their highly formulaic character on...
“Opening an accounting record, being it in the form of a leather bound volume, a printout on wide blue bar paper or a PDF document, we see the space of document pages. In this...
“In 1748, newly widowed Mary Coates took charge of the family dry goods shop in Philadelphia. Although her account books do not survive, the receipt books she and her husband kept from 1740-1770 remain....
“This paper will consider how the digital humanities can be used to provide a new research agenda for analysing the late seventeenth-century hearth tax from England, Scotland and Wales. Part one provides background information...