We held a Round Table “Exploring the Possibilities of Digital Humanities with PSL University”.
Date and Time: June 1, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Venue: Conference Room 3, 3rd Floor, General Library Building, The University of Tokyo
Hosted by: The Uehiro Project for the Asian Research Library (U-PARL), The University of Tokyo
Chair: Takao Ito (Kobe University)
Program
2:00-2:05: Welcome
2:05-2:20: Erina Ota-Tsukada (The University of Tokyo), “From Text to Data: Knowledge Graph-Based Prosopography of the 15th-Century Mamluk Sultanate”
2:20-2:35: Takao Ito (Kobe University), “Developing a HTR Model for Arabic Documents”
2:35-2:50: Tomoaki Shinoda (Keio University), “Reconstructing Muslim intellectual network with digital humanities”
2:50-3:05: Yuri Ishida (Okayama University), “Visualization of Ibn ‘Arabi School by Isnalyser”
3:05-3:20: Coffee break
3:20-3:35: Chahan Vidal-Gorène (École nationale des chartes/PSL), “HTR of Maghrebi Arabic scripts: four years of DISTAM developments, datasets and benchmarks”
3:35-3:50: Peter Stokes (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes/PSL), “Challenges and Potentials in Multi-Script Automatic Character Recognition”
3:50-4:05: Florian Cafiero (École nationale des chartes/PSL), “Augmented Diplomacy: Transcription, Semantic Edition, and AI-Assisted Exploration of the Archives of Multilateralism”
4:05-4:20: Daniel Stockholm (École Pratique des Hautes Etudes/PSL), “AI and Computer Vision Approaches to the Study of Animals in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts”
4:20-5:00: General discussion
12.June.2025