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“A certain enemy robbed me of my life”: Medieval Riddles, Digital Transformations, and Pandemic Pedagogy “某个敌人夺走了我的生命”:中世纪的谜语、数字转换和流行教学法

Digital Medievalist Pub Date : 2022-04-20 DOI: 10.16995/dm.8177

Alexandra Bolintineanu, C. E. M. Henderson, Ana Algarvio Alves Wong, Dionysus Cho, Robyn Jane Carino, Kathy Du

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Medieval manuscripts and their migrations: Using SPARQL to investigate the research potential of an aggregated Knowledge Graph 中世纪手稿及其迁移:使用SPARQL调查聚合知识图的研究潜力

Digital Medievalist Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.16995/dm.8064

H. Wijsman, Toby Burrows, L. Cleaver, Doug Emery, E. Hyvönen, M. Koho, Lynn Ransom, E. Thomson

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Digital Approaches to Manuscript Abbreviations: Where Are We at the Beginning of the 2020s? 手稿缩写的数字化方法:21世纪20年代初我们在哪里?

Digital Medievalist Pub Date : 2021-07-09 DOI: 10.16995/dm.88

Alpo Honkapohja

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Data-Driven Syllabification for Middle Dutch 中古荷兰语的数据驱动音节化

Digital Medievalist Pub Date : 2019-11-04 DOI: 10.16995/dm.83

Wouter Haverals, Folgert Karsdorp, M. Kestemont

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Querying Variants: Boccaccio’s ‘Commedia’ and Data-Models 查询变体:薄伽丘的“喜剧”和数据模型

Digital Medievalist Pub Date : 2019-09-20 DOI: 10.16995/dm.81

Sonia Tempestini, E. Spadini

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Automatic Scribe Attribution for Medieval Manuscripts 自动抄写归属中世纪手稿

Digital Medievalist Pub Date : 2018-12-24 DOI: 10.16995/DM.67

Mats Dahllöf

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引用次数: 3

Title Pending 8195 待定标题8195

Digital Medievalist Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.16995/dm.8195

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