Commission to the Executive Council of the International Committee of
Slavists for the Computer-Supported Processing of Slavic Manuscripts and Early
Printed Books
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http://www.obshtezhitie.net/charter.html
Last revised: 2021-02-01 by Achim Rabus (achim.rabus@slavistik.uni-freiburg.de)
Charter
Main Activities
This Commission is established under the authorization of the
International Committee of Slavists to faciliate the exchange of information
and other coordination:
- among research and educational projects concerning computer
processing of Medieval Slavic Texts;
- between the preceding and other computer-based projects in the field
of Slavic philology;
- between the work of the Commission and that of general organizations
with similar goals, including the Association for Computers and the Humanities
(ACH), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Association for
Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), CLARIN, DARIAH etc.
The coordination described above presupposes the following activities:
- the application of technical standards and conventions in the field
of Slavic studies to allow system and platform independence of documents, corpora, tagsets, and
electronic archives;
- the support for the establishment of standards of this type in the
humanities;
- the organization of long-term projects based on these standards and
conventions;
- the popularization of new computer technologies and standards among
Slavists.
The main subject areas of the Commision are:
- the encoding of linguistic, literary, and artistic information from
manuscripts, early printed books, epigraphic materials, archives, etc.
- the creation and improvement of historical Slavic corpora;
- the development and application of corpus-linguistic methods for the study of Slavic historical linguistics;
- the development and application of methods from the area of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence for the study of the Slavic written heritage (e.g., neural tagging, Handwritten Text Recognition) and the respective processing tool
- the improvement of trancription and transliteration techniques for
the representation of early Slavic writing on computers;
- the creation of a virtual library of Medieval Slavic written sources
and a data base of information drawn from these sources;
- the formal description of technical procedures within the subject
areas.
The Commission:
- organizes conferences on computer processing in the field of Slavic
studies; (the biennial El’ Manuscript conference is the official conference of the Commission)
- publishes information in electronic form and on paper; besides the El’Manuscript proceedings, Scripta & e-Scripta is the official journal of the Commission)
- participates in the work of the International Committee of Slavists and
in the work of the quinquennial International Congresses of Slavists;
- cooperates with research organizations, commissions, and committees
with similar goals.
The main principles of the Commission's work are:
- standardization;
- classification of topics;
- collaboration.
The Commission itself acts as an International Project for Computing in
the field of Slavic studies.
Founding membership
Officers
- Birnbaum, David J., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, US
(President)
- Miltenova, Anisava, Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria (President)
- Cleminson, Ralph, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK (Vice
President)
- Bojadžiev, Andrej, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
(Secretary)
Members
- Bojanivs′ka, Marta, University of L′viv, Ukraine
- Camuglia, Monia, University of Pisa, Italy
- Kempgen, Sebastian, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
- Lindstedt, Jouko, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Moldovan, Aleksandr, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Ribarov, Kiril, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Ribarova, Zdenka, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
- Tadić, Marko, University of Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
- Vakareliyska, Cynthia, University of Oregon, USA