Advanced Training in Digitization of Older Texts — ANTIDOTE 2025

The University of Iceland (Reykjavík), Charles University (Prague), Klosterneuburg Abbey Library (Klosterneuburg, Austria), Comenius University (Bratislava), Ca’ Foscari University (Venice), CNRS (Paris, Lyon), and Trinity College (Dublin)—a network of six universities and one library—invite applications from their students and staff for a training course in the electronic editing of medieval texts funded by the ERASMUS+ KA2 program.

The training course consists of two five-day sessions where students participate first in beginner-level training before moving on to advanced-level training.

(a) Beginner-level training — Klosterneuburg, Austria, March 3–7, 2025

This five-day training session will offer an introduction to the principles of encoding medieval texts in the Latin alphabet with TEI-compatible XML, including the encoding and display of special characters with the Unicode font standard and the recommendations of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), the encoding of abbreviations and expansions, paleographic features, layout and textual structure in medieval manuscripts. Instruction will be in the form of lectures and workshops where students will engage in hands-on training.

(b) Advanced-level training — University of Iceland, Reykjavík, June 23–27, 2025

This five-day advanced workshop will build on the skills developed in the beginner-level session and focus on practical projects based on big data (data scraping, OCR, HTR, crowdsourcing), data wrangling and cleaning, corpus-linguistic and computational techniques for information extraction, as well as visualization options.

The two sessions combined amount to 5 ECTS credits.

This training course is intended for graduate students at, or affiliated with, the partner universities.

Requirements:

• BA or MA degree in hand.
• Registration as student at one of the partner universities (or their affiliates).
• Background in history, philology or any form of medieval studies. Preference will be given to candidates having familiarity with medieval manuscripts and documents.

In addition to a CV, a transcript of academic record, the applicant should include a short statement of purpose in English (400–500 words) describing their academic background and how it has prepared them for this course as well discussing their current studies and the relevance of this course for future academic goals.

Applications are accepted through this portal

The successful applicants will receive a travel stipend for both events as well as support for accommodation.

Inquiries by email should be directed to antidote@hi.is

Application deadline: December 4, 2024

Applicants can expect admission outcome by end of December.