Digital Scholarship Seminar:

Franck Cinato (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris)

Collaborative Digital Editing: Experience from the Liber Glossarum Project

Abstract: This presentation will share experience from a large-scale project to produce a new collaborative digital edition of the Liber Glossarum, a vast encyclopaedic dictionary (c. 30,000 entries) compiled in a female monastery in northern France around the end of the eighth century. Despite its status a foundational educational resource throughout the Middle Ages, the text has been neglected by scholars due to the absence to date of any complete edition. The scale of the project requires the involvement of specialists throughout Europe, and the core of the project is a website providing a collaborative platform. http://liber-glossarum.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/

Bio: Dr Franck Cinato is a researcher at the CNRS, Paris. He completed a doctorate in 2010 on early medieval glossing at the Ìäcole Pratique des Hautes Ìätudes, Paris. He also has an interest in experimental archaeology, and in 2009 co-published an edition of the earliest European manual on the art of sword-fighting.

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