Third Annual Project Workshop

From Thursday, December 7, to Saturday, December 9, the third international workshop of the „Text Database and Dictionary of Classic Mayan Project“ of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts and the University of Bonn will take place in the Bonner Alteramerikasammlung. During these three days, the project team, together with the scientific council and invited scholars, will discuss the current state of the project and future prospects. The project will furthermore train attenting academics in the use of the input mask of the text carrier database. We also share our latest research. The workshop is internal and not open to the public.

Programme

Thursday, December 7

09.00 – 09.30 Welcome Address Nikolai Grube (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn) & Mirjam Blümm (State and University Library, Göttingen)
09.30 – 10.00 Our Project: Retrospect and Lookout Nikolai Grube (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn)
10.00 – 10.30 Segmentation and Linking: Our Digital Sign Catalogue Christian Prager (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn)
10.30 – 11.00 Coding the Maya Glyphs: Our TEI XML Mark up Schema Elisabeth Wagner (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn) & Franziska Diehr (State and University Library, Göttingen)
11.15 – 11.30 Scripting the Code: Our XML Parser for Transliterations Maximilian Brodhun (State and University Library, Göttingen)
11.30 – 12.00 From Writing to Language: Our Linguistic Annotator for Maya Hieroglyphs Sven Gronemeyer (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn / La Trobe University, Melbourne) & Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)
12.00 – 12.15 Pot, Stone and Bone: Our Maya Image Archive Katja Diederichs (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn)
13.30 – 16.00 Discussion I: Project Standards and their Application Chair: Mirjam Blümm
16.15 – 17.30 Discussion II: The Virtual Workflow and Research Questions Chair: Maximilian Brodhun

Friday, December 8

09.15 – 11.00 Hands-on Workshop I: TextGrid
11.15 – 13.00 Hands-on Workshop I: TextGrid
14.00 – 16.00 Hands-on Workshop I: TextGrid
16.15 – 17.15 Hands-on Workshop II: TEI XML
17.15 – 17.45 Corpus Epigraphy: Benefits, Challenges, and Future Prospects Harri Kettunen (University of Helsinki)

Saturday, December 9