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PresentationThe&#160;CENDARI&#160;project, in collaboration with the COST Action: IS 1005, Medioevo Europeo: Medieval Studies and Technological Resources, will host the first of three annual CENDARI Summer Schools in Florence, Italy. Over the course of one week, we will invite participants to address specifically how CENDARI aims to resolve the difficulties of historical research through the application of digital technologies and methods.Sessions will apply the concept of &#8216;transnational moments&#8217; to examine ways in which historical research is complicated by the nature of material records of the past. The Summer School will provide a context for the various collections-level challenges to transnational history, such as how to identify sources that have become &#8216;hidden&#8217; or lost through accidents of history. Researchers will examine the linguistic, quantitative and methodological challenges facing them today.The five-day programme will be a combination of expert speakers, hands-on sessions and collaborative design workshops. All attendees at the Summer School will be invited to present their own research questions and will learn about the digital methods and tools that can be applied. Participants will present their own work and receive feedback from peers; attend seminars by leading authorities in transnational modern and medieval European history, as well as in Digital Humanities; deepen their understanding of the impact of the material record on the practice of history; gain familiarity with powerful new tools in research-oriented information technology.ProgrammeMonday 22nd July 201309.30 &#8211; 11.00Opening seminar: Research infrastructures and new transnational research&#160;questions (Dr. Jonathan Gumz , University of Birmingham)11.00 &#8211; 11.30 Break11.30 &#8211; 13.00Panel discussion: CENDARI a research infrastructure that gets librarians, e-scientists, digital humanists, medieval and modern historians to work together ( Members of CENDARI partner institutions )13.00 &#8211; 14.30 Lunch14.30 &#8211; 16.00Seminar: Transnational questions raised by the collections of the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini (Prof. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture)16.00 &#8211; 17.00 Break17.00Keynote Address: The undetermined nature of transnational history (Prof. Jay Winter, Yale University)Tuesday 23rd July 201309.30 &#8211; 11.00Seminar: How sources become "institutionalized". From items, objects and fonds to metadata records (Dr Graham Jefcoate)11.00 &#8211; 11.30 Break11.30 &#8211; 13.00Seminar: Search algorithms and machine translation (Dr Alex O'Connor, Trinity College Dublin)13.00 &#8211; 14.30 Lunch14.30 &#8211; 16.00Hands on session: Working with the Fondazione collections and finding aids (Dr Nicole B&#233;riou)16.00 Optional: Guided Tour of Florence &#8211; details to be confirmedWednesday 24th July 201309.30 &#8211; 11.00Colloquium: Presentation of the participants' research projects; discussion with special emphasis on organization of sources and critical reflection on the potential of&#160;digital methodologies (Moderated by Dr Jakub Bene&#353;, Dr Pavlina Bobič and Dr Klaus Richter,&#160;University of Birmingham)11.00 &#8211; 11.30 Break11.30 &#8211; 13.00Colloquium: Continued13.00 &#8211; 14.30 Lunch14.30 &#8211; 16.00Seminar: How research methodologies translate into digital methodologies (Prof. Sheila Anderson, King&#8217;s College, London)16.00 &#8211; 17.00 Break17.00 Reception: details to be confirmedThursday 25th July 2013Sessions hosted by Dr. Jean Daniel Fekete (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) and Dr. Emiliano Degl&#8217;Innocenti (Fondazione Ezio Franceschini)09.30 &#8211; 11.00Demonstration: Cutting edge projects for the procession of historical data11.00 &#8211; 11.30 Break11.30 &#8211; 13.00Brainstorming Session: What makes a useful tool for historical research?13.00 &#8211; 14.30 Lunch14.30 &#8211; 16.00Hands on session: Designing a digital tool for historical research16.00 &#8211; 17.00 Break17.00 Optional Cultural Programme: details to be confirmedFriday 26th July 201309.30 &#8211; 11.00Panel Discussion: Problems with multilingual sources (Louise Edwards, Franco De Vivo, Dr. Jakub Bene&#353;, Dr. Pavlina Bobič and Dr. Klaus Richter)11.00 &#8211; 11.30 Break11.30 &#8211; 13.00Keynote Address: Digital History A paradigm shift? (Dr. Hugh Denard, Trinity College Dublin)13.00 &#8211; 14.30 Lunch14.30 &#8211; 16.00Final plenary discussion - Challenges of transnational history and historical sources16.00 Close