Paola Peratello

On the basis of the literature gathered on the Piraeus Lion at the Venetian Arsenal, a website has been created as a virtual space collecting various types of contents regarding the Piraeus Lion: videos, photos, a 3D point cloud, a secondary-literature timeline, C.C. Rafn’s article on the runes of the statue (1855) in Danish, and the relative English translation. Both scholars and generic users indeed benefit from easy access to the website and its contents. With particular reference to the 3D point cloud, photos of each side of the statue of the Lion have been collected and processed by means of Agisoft Metashape: the final result is an image-based polygonal mesh. A future outlook will be discussed: more specifically, the annotation of metadata to a 3D point cloud, from an epigraphical and philological perspective.

On the basis of the literature gathered on the Piraeus Lion at the Venetian Arsenal, a website has been created as a virtual space collecting various types of contents regarding the Piraeus Lion: videos, photos, a 3D point cloud, a secondary-literature timeline, C.C. Rafn’s article on the runes of the statue (1855) in Danish, and the relative English translation. Both scholars and generic users indeed benefit from easy access to the website and its contents. With particular reference to the 3D point cloud, photos of each side of the statue of the Lion have been collected and processed by means of Agisoft Metashape: the final result is an image-based polygonal mesh. A future outlook will be discussed: more specifically, the annotation of metadata to a 3D point cloud, from an epigraphical and philological perspective.

In recent decades scholars started reaching out to advanced imaging technologies to reveal hidden text of manuscripts or to identify features that are undetectable to the naked eye. To this end, Copenhagen, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, AM 28 8vo, also known as Codex Runicus, one of the most famous and intriguing Danish medieval manuscripts written entirely in medieval runes, underwent multispectral imaging(MSI) and microscopic analysis. AM 28 8vo has been studied, edited and digitized, but no in-depth analysis of material features like erasures, changing of inks, missing or faded portions of texts by means of digital-based methods exists yet. Along with three scribes who wrote the texts, AM 28 8vo also includes a marginal apparatus that carries valuable information on the history of its ownership and its reading by leading Danish philologists. Some inks of both the main text and marginalia are examined here combining MSI and microscopic analyses to understand possible correlations between those who wrote, edited and annotated the texts directly on the manuscript. Finally, this contribution reports on the results of such analyses, taking spectral reflectance as a valid guide in a first attempt of mapping scribal hands, and demonstrates how it can expand our understanding of the manuscript, its production, and its history.

This paper aims at presenting the editing process of Stockholm, Kungliga Biblioteket, SKB A 120, a prose fragment written entirely in medieval runes and transmitting the Virgin Mary’s complaint, with a focus on the editorial criteria. More specifically, the encoding and the annotation procedures, and the visualisation of the digital edition in Menota (Medieval Nordic Text Archive) Public Catalogue will be outlined. The fragment has been encoded in compliance with TEI-XML standards as specified and supplemented in the Menota guidelines described in the Menota handbook v. 3.0. The linguistic annotation (@lemma for the lexical form and @me:msa for the morphological analysis) of each word is also included. The digital edition provides the first complete runic text fully lemmatized, searchable, and encoded on both facsimile and diplomatic levels.

The topic of this paper is to show the process of the encoding of fol. 25v of Codex Runicus, AM 28 8vo. More specifically, this manuscript has been chosen as a pilot project since it has been written entirely in runes and it is thus eminently suited for testing the XML encoding of a runic manuscript. This has to the best of my knowledge not been done before. To this aim I used the Oxygen XML Editor to produce the encoding of the text in compliance with the Menota (Medieval Nordic Text Archive) Guidelines of Handbook v. 3.0, a detailed manual of how to encode medieval manuscripts in XML, and the last version P5 of the TEI standard. The paper aims at presenting the Codex Runicus and its runes, and then showing the process of encoding the runes, the punctuation marks and of the linguistic analysis (lexical and grammatical) of the selected text. This pilot project is the basis of my current PhD research project, which aims at encoding the whole manuscript on the basis of the procedure s...

The topic of this paper is to show the process of the encoding of fol. 25v of Codex Runicus, AM 28 8vo. More specifically, this manuscript has been chosen as a pilot project since it has been written entirely in runes and it is thus eminently suited for testing the XML encoding of a runic manuscript. This has to the best of my knowledge not been done before. To this aim, I used the Oxygen XML Editor to produce the encoding of the text in compliance with the Menota (Medieval Nordic Text Archive) Guidelines of Handbook v. 3.0, a detailed manual of how to encode medieval manuscripts in XML, and the last version P5 of the TEI standard. The paper aims at presenting the Codex Runicus and its runes and then showing the process of encoding the runes, the punctuation marks, and of the linguistic analysis (lexical and grammatical) of the selected text. This pilot project is the basis of my current Ph.D. research project, which aims at encoding the whole manuscript on the basis of the procedure shown in this paper.

Il primo volume de "Le lingue nordiche nel medioevo, 1. Testi" offre estratti di testi nordici tipici del periodo 1200-1500. Gli autori hanno selezionato quattro testi per ciascuna delle lingue in oggetto (antico danese, antico svedese, antico norvegese, antico islandese e antico gutnico), accompagnati da una breve introduzione, una traduzione a fronte in italiano e un'ampia selezione di note testuali. Viene presentato anche il manoscritto da cui sono stati tratti i testi sotto forma di facsimile fotografico. L'introduzione generale mira a mettere in prospettiva lo sviluppo linguistico delle lingue nordiche, così come i generi testuali e i manoscritti stessi.

Il volume è una raccolta di tredici articoli e una postfazione suddivisi in tre sezioni: "Books as objective ad their digitization", "Conservation and digitization in practice" e "Conservators and digitization experts in dialogue". Il tema principale che unisce i numerosi contributi è il 'libro' intesto come oggetto fisico e costruito da una varietà di elementi (copertina, tipologie di legatura, di materiale, e così via). In questo contesto, "digitization" fa riferimento non solo alla migrazione dei contenuti dai vecchi media di massa a quelli più recenti con la sola alterazione del formato, ma anche alla trasposizione della materialità.

The poster aims at showing an ontological description of three fragmentary runic inscriptions in Venice as part of the project “Il Leone del Pireo presso l’Arsenale di Venezia: un progetto digitale partecipativo” (P.I.: Prof. Marina Buzzoni, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), which focuses on the analysis and valorization of the three runic inscriptions (ca. 11th cent. AC) engraved on the statue of Piraeus Lion at the Venetian Arsenal and whose readability is increasingly deteriorating.
After a 3D digitization of the statue, the texts of the inscriptions have been encoded according to TEI-EpiDoc XML standard, to eventually produce a scholarly digital edition of the corpus in compliance with the FAIR principles. As a further step, the encoding of metadata is also fundamental. An ontological approach and description will be helpful in overcoming the differences in likely-customized TEI schema (Murano et al. 2023) and at the same time, being detailed and rich in its semantics; this approach seems to be the most suitable solution. CRMtex 2.0 model is a reference ontology for describing ancient texts, specifically inscriptions, and their metadata: its ontological classes such as TX9 Glyph, TX5 Text Recognition, and TX14 Reading are relevant to the present case.
In the poster, the ontological description of one of the inscriptions will be illustrated.

In 2020, a group of doctoral students decided to submit an interdisciplinary proposal for the organisation of the first doctoral conference of the newly founded United Doctoral School of the University of Verona. Despite the outbreak and long-term, socio-economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic – which put academic activities under a severe strain – the conference proposal was warmly welcomed and promoted by the School as an opportunity for dialogue that could transcend disciplinary boundaries, and as encouragement to continue the too often underappreciated but significant work of scientific research at the margins and on the margins . It was from the concept of margins – seen as limit, as an opportunity, as a meeting place for contact and cross-fertilisation between definitions, traditional perspectives, societies, cultures – that the international conference Margins and Forgotten Places was developed. Our main imperative since the conception of this work was the application of multifaceted expressions of research innovation to socially relevant challenges of the present age. For this purpose we brought the commitment to collective well-being to the forefront of every discipline’s attention, and we allocated a full day to delve into the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda. Together with outstanding keynote speakers, more than sixty speakers presented their contributions, which are still available online on our YouTube channel, and which are partially published in this volume. In an increasingly alienating and highly specialised academic world, we, the Organising Committee, wish to advocate the choral value of scientific research and advise as many colleagues as possible to promote interdisciplinary initiatives that deepen the little, the small and the useless. Only by actively listening what is different, indeed, can we truly appreciate what we already know, thus using our positive attitude towards learning and researching knowledge beyond borders to imagine and shape a different future.