@cmroughan
Postdoc affiliated with Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) and Manuscript, Rare Book & Archive Studies (MARBAS). Fascinated by all things ancient science, manuscript studies, and digital methods. She/they. Views my own.
In December, CDH / @marbasprinceton.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @cmroughan.bsky.social traveled to Vienna for the 3-day workshop concluding the Winter School on #HandwrittenTextRecognition (HTR) of Medieval Documents. Read her insights here:
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/02...
📌🗓️ Save the dates! Our Spring 2025 #HumanitiesforAI events at #Princeton are announced! Scroll the thread below to read more and RSVP to talks with Matt Kirschenbaum, Ted Chiang, and Nnedi Okorafor! More details soon.
An close-up view of a micrographic dragon, drawn in Hebrew characters on the folio of a medieval manuscript.
Today we're highlighting the source of our little draconic logo: folio 19r of the codex British Library, Add MS 21160. www.bl.uk/manuscripts/...
#manuscripts 🗃 #medievalsky
This is Manuscript, Rare Book & Archive Studies at Princeton. We're dedicated to sharing resources related to textual artifacts before 1600. That's manuscripts, documents, early print, inscriptions, the list goes on! We're all about premodern texts and the many materials that have carried them.
Some fascinating explorations of sound, script, and place in medieval China in this new issue of the CDH's Startwords!
There’s been some great developments with OCR and HTR tools eScriptorium and Kraken in recent years -- great to see an updated guide to using Kraken on the Digital Orientalist today! digitalorientalist.com/2023/09/26/t...