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LostMa ERC

@lostma.bsky.social

ERC-funded digital humanities research project on how texts experience processes of preservation, evolution, and extinction. Run by @jbcamps.bsky.social Hosted at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social More info: lostma-erc.github.io

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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

To build a multilingual corpus, experts in various traditions are contributing metadata about Medieval texts & witnesses. For several weeks, the Middle Dutch 🇳🇱 🏆 group has been leading in both texts & witnesses. But recently our French 🇫🇷 team passe des vitesses 💪 lostma-erc.github.io/corpus#stats

A screenshot of a horizontal bar graph showing the counts of text records and witness records in the LostMa database for each language group.

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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

📣 Job offers We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪 Deadline: 31 March 2025

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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Current state of affairs on OpenStemmata, before some big updates. Old French and Middle High German are clear winners, but with your help, some of the runners up may just join the leading pack #medievalsky

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