Lecturers and general outline of each seminar
August 21 ： Transkribus
Lecturer：So MIYAGAWA (https://researchmap.jp/SoMiyagawa; http://somiyagawa.com/）
Assistant Professor of Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters, Center for Studies ofCultural Heritage and Inter Humanities. Specialization: Linguistics, Development of Corpus,
Egyptian Studies, Digital Archives. He has been involved in digitization of Coptic parchment
manuscript in Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for 5 years as a researcher of German
Research Foundation.
HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) is a technique which allows computers to recognize
handwritten texts on papyrus, parchment, paper, etc. and digitize them. In this seminar, I willlecture how to use Transkribus, an application which spreads the most widely and is the mostuser friendly among various HTR. We will provide a lecture and exercises which enable you
to digitize texts in handwritten documents on hand regardless of language.
August 28 ： GIS
Lecturer：Susumu SATO （https://researchmap.jp/susumusato）
Research Associates in ILCAA, Specialization: Urban Geography
GIS (Geographic Information System) is a tool visualize through maps by combining various
data. This tool is mainly used for city planning projects and forestry management, but recently
there are some attempts to be used for combining it with historical maps. In this seminar, I
will provide a lecture and exercises for learning a skill at making map data by GIS, which
widely spreads in a variety of fields.

September 4: RDF
Lecturer：Jun OGAWA（ https://researchmap.jp/jo-fil-ho）
Student in the doctoral course of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The
University of Tokyo. Specialization: Ancient European History
RDF (Resource Description Framework) is a data model for describing information aboutvarious resources on the web, and a basic technique of semantic web and Knowledge Graph.
Recently, starting with Japan Search, it is more and more often used also for cultural resources
studies and humanities and social science, and there is also a trend to describe data on person’s
name, place-name, social network, and prosopography. In this seminar, I will provide basic
knowledge and examples of actual uses, and we will make studies on a model of structurization
using real documents and making and search of data in order to think about how we can use
this technology for research.

September 11 :TEI

Lecturer: Kiyonori NAGASAKI （https://researchmap.jp/knagasaki）
For about 12 years, I have been mainly working on research for the construction of researchbasis of Buddhist studies in order to return its outcomes for whole field of Humanities in Japanthrough Digital Humanities.

I will provide a lecture and practice on the contents and state of TEI (Text Encoding
Initiative) Guidelines, which are a de facto standard for the structurization of text data forhumanities in Western developed countries. By combining practice and lecture, this seminaraims to allow you to understand how useful TEI Guidelines are for humanities and to realizethat they are simpler than their appearance and made by humanities scholars for humanities
scholars.
Contact ： Wakako KUMAKURA (kumakura[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp)