STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse

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We're still buzzing over our STEMMA hackathon event - can't believe it's been almost a month already! Check out our hackathon event report - including details on our winners and (extra special treat) interviews with our developers!

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What a privilege to participate in this innovative research collaboration. Working with these amazing people from such diverse backgrounds has been a truly rewarding experience. @stemma.bsky.social

Another wonderful #networkanalysis presentation at today's #STEMMAhackathon from Prof. Jing Chen on a co-citation network of early modern Chinese poetry.
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Team 8 is isolating the circulation and arrangement of John Donne’s Satires as a trial run for analysing clusters of poetry in the dataset! #ERCFunded #STEMMAhackathon

Team 6 is employing vector embeddings to perform sentiment analysis on manuscript collections! #ERCFunded #STEMMAhackathon

Team 5 is using the poems of Philip Sidney as a case study of poem popularity over time! #ERCfunded #STEMMAhackathon

Team 4 is taking a deep dive on post-1700 content to see whose work gets perpetuated into the century beyond our data set! #ERCfunded #STEMMAhackathon

Team 3 is working on a method to identify poems and poem groups shared between manuscripts to aid in finding patterns and clusters of poems! #ERCfunded #STEMMAhackathon

Team 2 is generating poem stability scores to analyse degrees of variation in the first lines of poems in the STEMMA database! #ERCfunded #STEMMAhackathon

Here’s a brief showcase of some of the great work going on at the hackathon this week! Team 1 is measuring popularity by calculating the copies of a poem over time alongside its number of unique manuscript locations to find the manuscripts that contain the most popular poems in our data! #ERCfunded

Delighted to be joined remotely by Prof. Jing Chen from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to talk to us about her fabulous project building a database of classical Chinese poetry to study circulation - STEMMA can relate! #STEMMAhackathon #DH

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We're in the news! STEMMA making headlines 🌐 #STEMMAhackathon #ERCfunded #DH #earlymodern
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Working on initial prototyping as we near the end of Hackathon Day 1! @researchireland.ie @uniofgalway.bsky.social #STEMMAhackathon #DH

A wonderful fireside chat to break up the hacking!! @erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie #digitalhumanities

Two DH icons at once ❤️ #STEMMAhackathon @erinannmcc.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social #ERCfunded

Team 4 working on our top secret #STEMMAhackathon project. #DH #ERCfunded

@erinannmcc.bsky.social kicking off this week's STEMMA hackathon @portershed.bsky.social! Excited to be hosting such a vibrant community of developers, scholars, and stakeholders!

Apparently we now get personalised coke cans at the hackathon too? @erinannmcc.bsky.social #STEMMAhackathon

Kicking off the STEMMA hackathon here at The Portershed in Galway with a Design Thinking talk for our hackers! @erc.europa.eu @researchireland.ie @portershed.bsky.social #STEMMAhackathon #DH #ERCfunded

STEMMA at @dariaheu.bsky.social 's annual event in Göttingen! @caitlinburge.bsky.social @dariahie.bsky.social

Grateful to Steven Gunn for such a thoughtful and detailed engagement.

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Remind yourself of the names of the Muses.

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 397; Personal reference handbook (vade mecum) of Grimald of St. Gall (Abbot 841 CE-872 CE); middle of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.147 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Data cleaning popping up fun variants: MS 239/18 at the Rosenbach Library swaps the first line of Strode's 'Love is a game of tables' for 'Love is a game of Irish', a predecessor to backgammon.
Sadly not actually related to Ireland, but still going to say the poem knew STEMMA would be in Galway...

Stolen 16th-century manuscript returned to Paraguayan authorities The US justice system returned the so-called “Hernandarias Manuscript,” a 16th-century document penned in 1598 by Hernando Arias de Saavedra, the first Creole governor in the Americas.

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The team will be taking a well-deserved break from their data cleaning effofts over this long weekend. We hope you get a break too, and we'll look forward to sharing what we've been up to soon!

Does anyone work with #escriptorium for #earlymodern or #medieval #transcription projects? I had a hard time setting it up, but I finally managed to get a transcription model and I think I'm finally able to train it. I'm curious what successes or failures others have had 🤔 #digitalhumanities

It really does look like a kangaroo though!

14 Apr 1598: Edmund Spenser's View of the Present State of #Ireland is entered into the Stationers' Register #otd, it was not published till 1633 (in #Dublin) but circulated widely in manuscript before that

(This Ms image is courtesy of
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This is like the infinity mirror of ridiculograms 😵‍💫