6th IDHN Conference – Recordings and Links

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are happy to share the recording of our 6th IDHN conference that took place on November 17, 2021: https://youtu.be/PnQFIrnUUzY

Please note that the presentation of Wafa Fatima Isfahani is not included in the recording upon her request.

Below, we are also providing links to the DH projects of our presenters. We are immensely grateful to our presenters for their generosity in sharing their research with the IDHN community.

Presenters’ names: Metin M. Coşgel, Emre Özer, and Sadullah Yıldırım

Title of the presentation: Gender and Justice: A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Participation and Victory in Ottoman Courts

Link to paper:   https://www.dropbox.com/s/dlsdrp66izj5tbr/Gender%20and%20Justice%20%28IDHN%29.pdf?dl=0

Presenter’s name: Wafa Fatima Isfahani

Title of the presentation: Tracing Genealogies: Using Network Analysis to Model the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Sufi Orders

Links to tools: Gephi: https://gephi.org/     Palladio: https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/

Presenter’s name: Noëmie Lucas, Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Clément Salah
Title of the presentation: RASAM – A Dataset for the Recognition and Analysis of Scripts in Arabic Maghrebi
Link to project: https://calfa.fr/blog/26 and https://philaranum.hypotheses.org/219
Link to corpus: Full dataset with layout annotations and transcriptions,  https://github.com/calfa-co/rasam-dataset
Link to tools: Calfa Vision, a web-based annotation tool for documents and images, https://vision.calfa.fr
Further recommendations:
– About RASAM, specifications and evaluations, see:
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Noëmie Lucas, Clément Salah, Aliénor Decours-Perez, and Boris Dupin, RASAM – A Dataset for the Recognition and Analysis of Scripts in Arabic Maghrebi, In: Barney Smith E.H., Pal U. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops. ICDAR 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12916. Springer, Cham, p. 265-281.
– About Calfa Vision and fine-tuning impact, see:
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Aliénor Decours-Perez, Boris Dupin, and Thomas Riccioli, A Modular and Automated Annotation Platform for Handwritings, Evaluation on Under-Resourced Languages, In: Lladós J., Lopresti D., Uchida S. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021. ICDAR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12823. Springer, Cham, p. 507-522.

Presenter’s name: Sohaib Saeed
Title of the presentation: “Al-Rāzī’s Great Exegesis: Can text reuse detection solve a longstanding debate over his sole authorship?”
Link to publications: https://independent.academia.edu/SohaibSaeed