It's good to see that the latest paper by @jbcamps.bsky.social and other members of the @lostma.bsky.social team is already making an impact!

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 4w ago

How do we calculate loss of written works? A depressing but important new study notes that "the loss was far greater than scholars once thought. Researchers estimate that up to 60% of medieval literary works and more than 95% of the manuscripts that once carried them have disappeared over time." 📜🖋️

Freshly out in @pnasnexus.org: "On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems" The first major publication of project @lostma.bsky.social , where we lay down our methodology for studying the transmission, evolution or disparition of texts. /1 #science 🧪

On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems

Abstract. Knowledge of past cultures relies heavily on surviving written material. Over the centuries, texts were copied, altered, and often lost, leaving

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Important calibration of death-birth simulations vs unseen species estimator for manuscript transmission #chr2025

Revisionnez la séance de séminaire de @jbcamps.bsky.social dédiée aux enjeux de la transmission textuelle dans le cadre du projet @lostma.bsky.social. À retrouver sur Vimeo !

Modelling the transmission and survival of texts and manuscripts

Résumé : Pourquoi conservons-nous certains textes anciens ou médiévaux et en avons-nous perdu d'autres ? Pourquoi conservons-nous…

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Mardi 25 novembre, @jbcamps.bsky.social présentera le projet LostMA lors du séminaire du médialab. Combinant philologie, science de la complexité et intelligence artificielle, ce projet vise à comprendre les processus évolutifs qui caractérisent la transmission textuelle. Inscription 👇

Modelling the transmission and survival of texts and manuscripts | médialab Sciences Po

Le séminaire du médialab accueille Jean-Baptiste Camps pour une séance sur le projet LostMA sur la transmission et la survie des anciens textes. Il analysera comment et pourquoi certains textes manusc...

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Thanks to researchers specialised in Middle Dutch, Icelandic, Middle English, & French (Middle French, Old French, Anglo-Norman, Franco-Italian, Franco-Occitan, Franco-Provençal, Occitan), the LostMa corpus has grown to nearly 2.5k witnesses of Medieval tales (texts). lostma-erc.github.io#witnesses

LostMa

ERC Research Project, 2024-2029

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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

📢 Job Klaxon! #DigitalHumanities #DH The deadline approaches (23 March 2025) to apply to 1 of 2 PhD contracts we're offering in the ERC project LostMa, hosted @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social On our website, learn more about the project & find a link to the job description: lostma-erc.github.io/news#0

LostMa

ERC Research Project, 2024-2029

lostma-erc.github.io

📣 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

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

☑ Logo ☑ Website (lostma-erc.github.io) ☑ Bluesky account ☐ Stickers The LostMa ERC project is kicking off its 2nd year with a new look. Next up... stickers!

LostMa

ERC Research Project, 2024-2029

lostma-erc.github.io