El’Manuscript 2020, University of Freiburg, September 13–17, 2020

El’Manuscript-2020 is the eighth in a series of biennial international conferences entitled “Textual Heritage and Information Technologies” that brings together linguists, specialists in historical source criticism, IT specialists, and others involved in publishing and studying our textual heritage.

We are pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for the El’Manuscript-2020 international conference on the creation and development of information systems for storage, description, processing, analysis, and publication of medieval and early modern handwritten and printed texts and documentary records. Any person involved in the creation or application of these resources — including researchers; instructors; staff of libraries, museums, and archives; programmers, and undergraduate and graduate students — is welcome to participate.

The working language of the 2020 conference is English.

Conference topics:

• The physical document – Material and technology
• The script – Recognition and analysis
• Handwritten Text Recognition, Optical Character Recognition
• The text – its processing and presentation
• Beyond document, script, and text – analytics and interpretation