Manuscript genetics and Perl
Manuscript genetics and Perl
By Tara Andrews (aurum) from London.pm, Zurich.pm
Date: Wednesday, 5 August 2009 14:10
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Everyday Perl
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Tags: armenian collation manuscripts medieval parsimony stemmatology text
We've all heard of bioinformatics by now, but what does that have to do with medieval manuscripts? Turns out that you can do a whole lot of neat things. This talk will pick up where last year's "101011 manuscripts" talk left off, and dive into how a few Perl scripts can show me the progression of manuscript copying and alteration over several hundred years.
Attended by: Nicholas Clark, Leon Brocard (acme), Joel Bernstein (joel), Karl Moens (CountZero), Dave Cross (davorg), Martin Schipany (ElCondor), Pedro Frazão, Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ (daxim), Damon Davison (allolex), Damian Conway (damian), Barbie, Vincent Pit (vincent), osfameron, Joaquín Ferrero (explorer), H.Merijn Brand (Tux), Clinton Gormley (DrTech), Jose Celestino (japc), Jordi Porta, Bernhard Schmalhofer (bernhard), Giuseppe Maxia (gmax), Michele Beltrame (arthas), Luis Motta Campos (LMC), Dirk De Nijs (ddn123456), Marcel Grünauer (Marcel), Bálint Szilakszi (szbalint), Abigail, Salvador Fandiño (salva), Henrik Tougaard (htoug), Wendy Van Dijk (woolfy), Enrique Nell (e-nell), Jozef Kutej (jozef), Henrik Hald Nørgaard, Rafael Antonio (RA), Tiago Grego, Manuel Gomes (wagemage), Tobias Henoeckl (hoeni), David Leadbeater (dg), Paul Fenwick (pjf), Hermen Lesscher (hermen), Sergio Arias, Thomas Heine, Andreas Hetey, Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar), Andy Armstrong (AndyA), Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni (maddingue), Piers Cawley (pdcawley), Isaac Clerencia, Walt Mankowski (waltman), Yusuke Kawasaki (kawanet),