Seminar 27/02/2015

The first Study Day of 2015 organized at ILC arises from the desire to spark a dialogue between those who are interested in texts and those who are interested in images with a high historical and cultural value, to debate on how the methods of the former can be extended to the areas of interest of the latter and vice versa, in the spirit of a profitable cross fertilization.
It should not come as a surprise that the problem of the similarity between two images is reduced to the problem of the similarity between sequences of types, as it will be explained in Professor Arsalane Zarghili’s talk.
In the same way it should not come as a surprise that the reassembling of the mosaic of topics and subjects present in more or less extended portions of the poetic text requires the identification of the informative skeleton set free from the flowery elements offered by the language, as the short talks of the second part of the day will try to show.
What joins the interventions – intended for a heterogeneous audience of linguists, philologists, computer scientists and born digital humanists – is the attempt to pass from the research of “the spoken” (through the explicit annotation of textual or visual topics and subjects) to the research of “the unspoken” (through the identification of structures intrinsically present in the subject of study).
The day will be closed by a remark on the peculiarities of the digital epigraphy, because the epigraphy is right the place where text, visual object and context claim a joint treatment with the greatest strenght to get – besides near the sense of the text – near the sense of the sense of the whole.