Der hier vorliegende vierte Band der Reihe zu Kodikologie und Paläographie im digitalen Zeitalter versammelt Beiträge aus der Forschung im interdisziplinären Schnittfeld traditioneller Geisteswissenschaften und Informatik. Er ist zugleich der Tagungsband der in den Jahren 2014 bis 2016 durchgeführten Veranstaltungsreihe "Maschinen und Manuskripte". Die 13 Beiträge aus den Bereichen der digitalen Kodikologie und Paläographie geben Einblicke in aktuelle computergestützte Forschung mit historischen Schriftzeugnissen und schließt Untersuchungen zu Bildern und zur musikalischen Notation ein. Der thematische Rahmen spannt sich dabei von der Erforschung digitalisierter Sammlungen mittels automatischer Mustererkennung über die Erfassung und Analyse von Schrift und Zeichensystemen bis zur Informationsvisualisierung von Forschungsdaten. The present fourth volume of the series on codicology and palaeography in the digital age features articles on research at the interdisciplinary intersection of the fields of traditional humanities and computer science. At the same time it represents the proceedings of the conference series "Machines and Manuscripts" held from 2014 to 2016. The 13 contributions from the field give insights on current computer aided research with historical written documents including images and musical notation. The thematic framework ranges from exploration of digitized collections to recognition and analysis of script and sign systems to information visualisation of research data.

Working with manuscripts has become a digital affair. But, are there downsides to digital photos? And how can you take advantage of the incredible computing power you have literally at your fingertips? Cornelis van Lit explains in detail what happens when manuscript studies meets digital humanities. In Among Digitized Manuscripts you will learn why it is important to include a note on the photo quality in your codicological description, how to draw, collect, and publish glyphs of paleographic interest, what standards (such as TEI and IIIF) to abide by when transcribing a text, how to write custom software for image recognition, and much more. The leading principle is that learning a little about computers will already be of great benefit.

Die zunehmende Verfügbarkeit digitaler Reproduktionen, eine qualitative Verbesserung von Reproduktionstechniken und die Entwicklung neuer Verfahren zur Analyse von Schrift und Beschreibstoffen in den vergangenen Jahren haben die Zuwendung der historisch orientierten Geisteswissenschaften zur Materialität der schriftlichen Überlieferung gefördert. Anknüpfend an die vorangegangenen Bände der Reihe präsentiert dieser Band aktuelle computergestützte Forschungen zu schriftlichem Kulturgut. Der thematische Rahmen reicht dabei von der Vorstellung neuer Reproduktionstechniken über die Anwendung von Bildmanipulationen zur Lesbarmachung schwer entzifferbarer Manuskripte und lexikostatistische Untersuchungen bis hin zur Vorstellung von Materialdatenbanken zu Beschreibstoffen. The increasing number of digital reproductions available online, the qualitative advance in digital reproduction techniques and the development of new digital methods to analyse script and writing support has fostered the interest in the material base of the written cultural heritage. This volume takes up this interest and adds to the two previous volumes on Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age research on reproduction techniques, image manipulation methods to enhance readability, lexico-statistical research and databases of writing materials. The volume thus reflects the current state on computer-aided manuscript research. Mit Beiträgen von / With Contributions by: Tal Hassner, Malte Rehbein Peter A. Stokes, Lior Wolf – Fabian Hollaus, Melanie Gau, Robert Sablatnig, William A. Christens-Barry, Heinz Miklas – Christine Voth – Rombert Stapel – Matthieu Bonicel, Dominique Stutzmann – Erwin Frauenknecht, Maria Stieglecker – Elisa Pallottini

This work in the field of digital literary stylistics and computational literary studies is concerned with theoretical concerns of literary genre, with the design of a corpus of nineteenth-century Spanish-American novels, and with its empirical analysis in terms of subgenres of the novel. The digital text corpus consists of 256 Argentine, Cuban, and Mexican novels from the period between 1830 and 1910. It has been created with the goal to analyze thematic subgenres and literary currents that were represented in numerous novels in the nineteenth century by means of computational text categorization methods. To categorize the texts, statistical classification and a family resemblance analysis relying on network analysis are used with the aim to examine how the subgenres, which are understood as communicative, conventional phenomena, can be captured on the stylistic, textual level of the novels that participate in them.