Invited Speakers

  • Mathieu Bonicel, BNF.
  • Alixe Bovey, History, University of Kent
Alixe Bovey is the director of the University of Kent's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and a senior lecturer in the School of History. After taking her first degree at the University of Victoria in History and Medieval Studies, she moved to London to undertake an MA and PhD in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute. Before taking up her post at Kent, she spent four years as a curator in the British Library's Department of Manuscripts, where her main focus was developing the catalogue that is now the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. Véronique Eglin is assistant professor in the Imagine-LIRIS team in INSA de Lyon. She has worked for more than 10 years on document image analysis and has contributed to innovating content characterization for information retrieval, indexing and handwriting identification. Her fields of interest are writing style identification, document structure analysis, and document images access. Most of her documents of interest come from the inheritance, especially from the Middle Age period (paleographical writings), from the Renaissance with the first printed documents,  from 18th century period with European clandestine correspondences or from authors specific drafts handwritings. She also actively participates to the knowledge diffusion and the research community life through her participation to different research groups:  member of Valconum  project (the European Center of digitized documents development), co-leader of the « Multimedia Documents » workgroup of the GDR-I3 (Research Group on Information, Interaction and Intelligence) and co-responsible to the « Digitized Corpus » theme of the ARC5 (Academic Research Community of the Rhone Alpes region for cultures dissemination and access).
Richard Guest is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts at the University of Kent, UK.  His research interests include hand-drawn data analysis for biometric verification and forensics analysis. He serves on many publication, standards and funding review committees in this field.
Clive began his career in film and television advertising, before setting up his own production company specialising in arts-based documentary production. He was Director of the British Museum video production unit before moving to the British Library to set up a multimedia production facility designed to deliver innovative, technology-based interpretation to the exhibition galleries at St Pancras. During his time as Head of Creative Services he developed the landmark Turning the Pages project http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/
Clive was the Chair of the Education Television Association and the Society for Screen Based Learning.  Before moving to his current role as Head of Exhibitions Clive worked with several major technology companies to deliver the British Library’s Growing Knowledge project which examined the research space of the future and opportunities technology might present to researchers.  

Professeur d'histoire médiévale Université de Rouen
Directrice de l'ED HMPL 558
précédemment directrice adjointe de l'IRHT et responsable des NTIC de ce laboratoire
et rédactrice en chef du Médiéviste et l'ordinateur
participante du projet DocExplore
Ingénieur de l’Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Jean-Marc Minière a, pendant plus de quinze ans, assumé des responsabilités techniques et commerciales au sein de grands groupes internationaux (Cap Gemini, ICL Fujitsu, Unisys). En 1999, il bifurque vers le secteur passionnant des startups technologiques en rejoignant Baltimore Technologies puis en co-fondant Qosmos, dont il est directeur commercial jusqu’en 2008, date à laquelle Qosmos atteint la 39è place du palmarès Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

Il choisit alors de relever un nouveau défi, celui de créer VirtuaSENSE, une société dédiée au domaine fascinant des nouvelles formes d’interaction numérique, exploitant notamment les technologies  mobiles, les interfaces tactiles et gestuelles, la vision cognitive et la 3D.

Jean-François Moufflet est archiviste paléographe (École nationale des chartes) et a mené des recherches en histoire médiévale sur saint Louis et sa cour, sous la direction d'Élisabeth Lalou.

Son parcours professionnel s'est poursuivi par l'obtention du diplôme de conservateur du patrimoine, en spécialité archives. Il travaille depuis juillet 2008 aux Archives de France, service de l'administration centrale du Ministère de la Culture, en charge de la politique archivistique française. Il s'occupe plus précisément de la numérisation, de la conservation et de la pérennisation des données produites par les administrations et de l'informatisation des services d'archives. Il a un rôle de veille et de conseil sur ces sujets auprès des services d'archives publics français.

  • Stéphane Nicolas, Computer Science, LITIS

Dr. Stéphane Nicolas (18/04/1979) received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Rouen, France, in 2006, on image segmentation using conditional random fields for document image indexing. He is currently on assistant professor at the University of Rouen since september 2007, and a researcher of the LITIS laboratory where he integrates the “Document and Learning” group.

Dr. Stéphane Nicolas is a member of the french association for pattern recognition (AFRIF) and a member of the french research group on handwriting recognition GRCE.

His main research interests include computer vision, image analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning, and statistical tools for signals modeling and classification, mainly applied to handwritten document layout analysis and information extraction from handwritten documents.

Marçal Rusiñol received his B.Sc. and his M.Sc. degrees in Computer Sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. In 2004 he joined the Computer Vision Center where he obtained the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Dr. Josep Lladós in 2009. He was also a Teaching Assistant at the Computer Sciences Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona during the period between 2005 and 2009. He currently has a position of R&D Project Manager at the Computer Vision Center and a Marie Curie Fellowship in the frenh company ITESOFT. In 2011 he won the ICDAR best paper award for his paper on handwritten word spotting. His main research interests include Graphics Recognition, Structural Pattern Recognition, Multimedia Retrieval and Performance Evaluation.

Marc Smith, ancien conservateur aux Archives nationales, professeur de paléographie médiévale et moderne à l'École des chartes, étudie l'évolution des écritures latines, des origines à nos jours, dans leurs aspects formels, techniques et historiques. Il s'intéresse notamment aux rapports entre écritures formelles et informelles (cursives), ainsi qu'aux perspectives ouvertes par les approches cognitives, informatiques et statistiques.

Ancien élève de l'Ecole nationale des Chartes (archiviste paléographe, 2002) et docteur en histoire (2009), Dominique Stutzmann est chargé de conférences à l'École pratique des hautes études depuis 2007 et chercheur (CR1) à l'IRHT. Il est membre du bureau exécutif de Digital Medievalist , du comité de direction de la revue Scriptorium, et du comité scientifique de l'Album interactif de paléographie médiévale.

Ses recherches actuelles portent sur le système graphique des écritures médiévales dans l'espace français du XIIe au XVe siècles et sur les modalités de leur évolution. Il pilote le projet Saint-Omer et le projet ANR Oriflamms. Il copilote avec Matthieu Bonicel, conservateur à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, le projet Sourcem « Formes à toucher ».

Il avait été avant cela attaché de recherche (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) auprès de la Bibliothèque d'État de Berlin (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz) de 2003 à 2005, puis conservateur des bibliothèques à la Bibliothèque nationale de France, département de l'Information bibliographique et numérique).

Consultante indépendante en gestion de l’information, formatrice, auteur, éditeur, Clotilde Vaissaire-Agard est également maitre de conférences associée à l‘IUT Information Communication de l’université du Havre 

Dr Alison Wiggins is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow, with interests in medieval and Renaissance language and literature. Since 2008 she has been directing  the  AHRC Letters of Bess of Hardwick Project, which will provide a freely accessible online edition of Bess's correspondence. Her book Bess of Hardwick: Reading and Writing Renaissance Letters will be published by Ashgate in 2013. Her recent publications include The Romance of the Middle Ages (2012, Bodleian Library), co-authored with Nicholas Perkins.

Full reference to the forthcoming web-edition: 

Bess of Hardwick's Letters: The Complete Correspondence, c.1550-1608, ed. by Alison Wiggins with Alan Bryson, Daniel Starza Smith, Anke Timmermann and Graham Williams, University of Glasgow, web development by Katherine Rogers, University of Sheffield Humanities Research Institute (forthcoming, 2012), http://www.bessofhardwick.org

  • Cressida Williams, Canterbury Cathedral Archives 

Cressida Williams qualified as an archivist in 1997, and works at Canterbury Cathedral Archives. The Archives are currently closed for building works; it is usually a very busy local record office, which cares for some 2 kms of archives, and which has welcomed some 5,000 research visits a year in recent years. Cressida has managed the service since 2006, overseeing all aspects of the service. She has particular interests in educational work and medieval charters and seals. 

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