Commission to the Executive Council of the International Committee of Slavists for the Computer-Supported Processing of Slavic Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Location: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~repertorium/commission/index.html
Last revised: 2002-09-21 by David J. Birnbaum (djbpitt+repertorium@pitt.edu)

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Charter

Main Activities

This Commission is established under the authorization of the International Committee of Slavists to faciliate the exchange of information and other coordination:

• among research and educational projects concerning computer processing of Medieval Slavic Texts;
• between the preceding and other computer-based projects in the field of Slavic philology;
• between the work of the Commission and that of general organizations with similar goals, including the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), etc.

The coordination described above presupposes the following activities:

• the application of technical standards and conventions in the field of Slavic studies to allow system and platform independence of documents and electronic archives;
• the support for the establishment of standards of this type in the humanities;
• the organization of long-term projects based on these standards and conventions;
• the popularization of new computer technologies and standards among Slavists.

The main subject areas of the Commision are:

• the encoding of linguistic, literary, and artistic information from manuscripts, early printed books, epigraphic materials, archives, etc.
• the improvement of trancription and transliteration techniques for the representation of early Slavic writing on computers;
• the creation of a virtual library of Medieval Slavic written sources and a data base of information drawn from these sources;
• the formal description of technical procedures within the subject areas.

The Commission:

• organizes conferences on computer processing in the field of Slavic studies;
• publishes information in electronic form and on paper;
• participates in the work of the International Committee of Slavists and in the work of the quintennial International Congresses of Slavists;
• cooperates with research organizations, commissions, and committees with similar goals.

The main principles of the Commission's work are:

• standardization;
• classification of topics;
• collaboration.

The Commission itself acts as an International Project for Computing in the field of Slavic studies.

Membership

Officers

• Birnbaum, David J., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, US (President)
• Miltenova, Anisava, Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria (President)
• Cleminson, Ralph, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK (Vice President)
• Bojadžiev, Andrej, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria (Secretary)

Members

• Bojanivs′ka, Marta, University of L′viv, Ukraine
• Camuglia, Monia, University of Pisa, Italy
• Kempgen, Sebastian, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
• Lindstedt, Jouko, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
• Moldovan, Aleksandr, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• Ribarov, Kiril, Charles University, Czech Republic
• Ribarova, Zdenka, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
• Tadić, Marko, University of Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
• Vakareliyska, Cynthia, University of Oregon, USA