Biblissima+ Cluster 4 Final Conference

One of the key motivations behind Biblissima+ is the need for infrastructure that enables data interoperability across disciplines. However, data relating to graphic systems of communication currently rely on a wide variety of terminologies, descriptive practices and analytical traditions. To enable the sharing, interoperability, comparison and reuse of data, there is an urgent need to harmonise concepts, methods and vocabularies, and to define ontologies for writing and other graphic systems. These ontologies should be capable of being integrated into tools for structured annotation and analysis, thereby enabling researchers to benefit from common models whilst adapting them to their specific scientific needs. Furthermore, graphic communication systems are inseparable from their physical media – manuscripts, inscriptions, printed matter, coins, seals, musical sources or works of art – and any adequate digital model must take this relationship into account, which in turn raises the need for approaches, models and tools that integrate graphic signs, physical media and contextual metadata within unified analytical frameworks.

Although significant progress has been made on this subject over the five years of Cluster 4, important questions remain regarding the digital modelling, representation and annotation of graphic communication, including the near-total absence of genuinely FAIR data in this field. This includes not only disciplines applied to writing in the strict sense, such as palaeography, epigraphy and papyrology, but also other disciplines devoted to the study of structured visual sign systems, notably heraldry, sigillography, numismatics, art history and musicology.

Focusing on graphic communication in all its forms, this meeting is structured around three themes: modelling, interoperability and tools. Through case studies drawn from palaeography, epigraphy, sigillography, heraldry and numismatics, participants will examine ways of representing, linking and utilising data relating to graphic systems and sign-bearing objects, with a view to developing resources that are more open, interoperable and compliant with FAIR principles.

Place : Open Space, Humathèque, Campus Condorcet

Details : see the full programme.

Registration is free but obligatory here

Please note that this conference is bilingual, with presentations and discussion in English and French.

 

          

Biblissima+ bénéficie d’une aide de l'Etat gérée par l'ANR au titre du Programme d’investissements d’avenir intégré à France 2030, portant la référence ANR-21-ESRE-0005.