From correspondence to corpora
A seminar on digital processing of historical letter compilations

When: 15 November 2013
Where: Metsätalo, lecture room 6 (Unioninkatu 40/Fabianinkatu 29)

9.00 Morning coffee

9.30 Opening

9.45 Alison Wiggins (Glasgow): From script to screen: Bess of Hardwick’s Letters Online
10.30 Letter projects: Demos and discussion (à 10 min.)
11.30 Marijke van der Wal (Leiden): Transforming images, transcripts and metadata into the web-based Letters as Loot corpus: stepping stones to text access and advanced search facilities

12.15 Lunch break

13.30 Pia Forssell: The Digital Edition of Topelius’ Correspondence
14.15 Carola Herberts: “The Digital Edition of Topelius’ Correspondence
Elisa Veit: The XML Encoding and Digital Tools of the ZTS Edition

14.45 Coffee

15.15 Nina Martola: The Swedish Language Bank Korp
15.45 Letter projects: Demos and discussion (à 10 min.)

16.45 Closing

18.30 Dinner (organizers and invited speakers)