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Natural Sciences, Technology and Informatics in Manuscript Analysis
Proceedings of the third International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology in Manuscript Analysis and the workshop OpenX for Interdisciplinary Computational Manuscript Research that took place at the University of Hamburg, Centre of the Study of Manuscript Cultures, on 12–14 June 2018.
Edited by Oliver Hahn, Volker Märgner, Ira Rabin, and H. Siegfried Stiehl
Editorial3
by Oliver Hahn, Volker Märgner, Ira Rabin, and H. Siegfried Stiehl
Articles
On Avoiding Segmentation in Handwritten Keyword Spotting:
Overview and Perspectives5
by Marçal Rusiñol
Writer Identification and Script Classification:
Two Tasks for a Common Understanding of Cultural Heritage11
by Dominique Stutzmann, Christopher Tensmeyer, and Vincent Christlein
Z-Profile: Holistic Preprocessing Applied to Hebrew Manuscripts for HTR with Ocropy and Kraken25
by Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra and Hayim Lapin
On Digital and Computational Approaches to Palaeography:
Where Have we Been, Where Are we Going?37
by Peter A. Stokes
Creating Workflows with a Human in the Loop for Document Image Analysis47
by Marcel Gygli (Würsch), Mathias Seuret, Lukas Imstepf, Andreas Fischer, Rolf Ingold
Building an Evaluation Framework Researchers Will (Want to) Use53
by Joseph Chazalon
Turning Black into White through Visual Programming:
Peeking into the Black Box of Computational Manuscript Analysis61
by Vinodh Rajan Sampath and H. Siegfried Stieh
Legally Open: Copyright, Licensing, and Data Privacy Issues73
by Vanessa Hannesschläger
A Comparison of Arabic Handwriting-Style Analysis
Using Conventional and Computational Methods77
by Hussein Mohammed, Volker Märgner, and Tilman Seidensticker
Illuminating Techniques from the Sinai Desert87
by Damianos Kasotakis, Michael Phelps, and Ken Boydston
Image Quality in Cultural Heritage91
by Tyler R. Peery, Roger L. Easton Jr., Rolando Raqueno, Michael Gartley, and David Messinger
When Erased Iron Gall Characters Misbehave105
by Keith T. Knox
‘Dürer’s Young Hare’ in Weimar – A Pilot Study105
by Oliver Hahn, Uwe Golle, Carsten Wintermann, and Ira Rabin
Material-Technical Details on Papyrus as Writing Support 123
by Myriam Krutzsch
The Techniques and Materials Used in Making Lao and Tai Paper Manuscripts133
by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, Volker Grabowsky, Direk Injan and Khamvone Boulyaphonh
Inks Used to Write the Divine Name in a Thirteenth-Century Ashkenazic Torah Scroll:
Erfurt 7 (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Or. fol. 1216)163
by Nehemia Gordon, Olivier Bonnerot, and Ira Rabin
Contributors185