Digital Neo-Latin StudiesThe #IANLS has now its own #zenodo community where all presentations held at the #ianls25 can be published: https://zenodo.org/communities/ianls/records
A small but hopefully important step towards more #openaccess in the field of #neolatin studies.
Alexander Winkler@diyclassics calls for 'massive philology' at #IANLS25 . For the language models to become better at Latin, we need big corpora of Neo-Latin plain texts of decent quality, not necessarily perfect transcriptions. It will be a major undertaking to compile this corpus from all the different sources out there. I guess that the digitized and OCRed library collections must play a role in this.
Interesting project presentations this morning in the special session on digital technology at #IANLS25 : Malika Bastin-Hammou presented the database of 16th century paratexts of ancient drama: https://ithac.elan-numerique.fr
Šime Demo talked about LAPIS, a database of Latin church inscriptions in Croatia. The project uses Semantic MediaWiki: easy to use, powerful and reasonably interoperable. The database isn't publicly available yet (https://lapis.fhs.unizg.hr) but it looks promising.
Later, I'll be giving a talk at #IANLS25 on some quantitative analyses of Latin book prodcution in Germany (and Italy in part) from 1500 through 1800. Slides, code and data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878272
I'm looking forward to the questions and the discussion!
A Bird's-Eye View of Neo-Latin Literature. A Quantitative Look at Bibliographical Data
Slides, Code and Data regarding the paper read at the 19th IANLS Conference in Aix-en-Provence. Overview of contents: `WINKLER_presentation_20250715.pdf`: presentation slides in pdf format `WINKLER_presentation_20250715.odp`: presentation in a editable odp format `01_datasetCreation.ipynb`: Jupyter-Notebook that collects data from vd17, vd18 and EDIT16 and parsed them into database. `02_analysis.ipynb`: Jupyter-Notebook that produces figures used in the presentation `vd_ianls2025.db`: database containing information from VD16, VD17, VD18 `edit16_ianls2025.db`: dabase containing information from EDIT16 `editHelpers.py`: functions to work with EDIT16 datasets (needed in `01_dataset_creation.ipynb`) `vdHelpers.py`: functions to work with VD records (needed in `01_dataset_creation.ipynb`) `bibliography.rtf`: list of works referenced in the presentation
anybody here attending the #IANLS25 next week in Aix-en-Provence? We're looking forward to a series of panels on digital neolatin topics. Check out the programme here: https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IANLS_Programme_du_congres_14_05_2025_final_1.pdf
Very happy that the #IANLS has circulated the "Invitation to the Fediverse for Neo-Latinists" among their members: https://ianls.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/An-invitation-to-the-Fediverse-for-Neo-Latinists.pdf
Let's see how this works out ...
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So it seems I am all set now and ready for the #IANLS25 conference next July in Aix-en-Provence. Would never have thought what a challenge is can be to get there.
It's great that will be - in addition to many interesting other papers - quite a number of talks on #digital #neolatin studies. The programme can be found at https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/32