Christine Roughan

CDH / MARBAS Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton University
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Center for the Digital Humanities
Manuscript, Rare Book & Archive Studies
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Grant-funded Projects

ongoing

"Princeton Open HTR Initiative: Creating Infrastructure for Modeling Historical Texts."

(With Marina Rustow and Helmut Reimitz.) Funded by a Princeton Language and Intelligence Seed Grant, 2024-2025. [link]

"Bringing HTR to the HPC: a Pilot to Customize eScriptorium for Princeton."

(With Marina Rustow and Helmut Reimitz.) Funded by a CDH Collaborative Research Grant, 2024-2025. [link]


Publications

Dissertation

2023

"The Little Astronomy and Middle Books between the 2nd and 13th Centuries CE: Transmissions of Astronomical Curricula."

New York University, PhD Dissertation. [link]

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2022

"Out of Maragha: Observations, Teachings, and Translations."

Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge 7 (2022): 347-375. [link]

2018

"Animated Shadows on Virtual Stone: Ancient Sundials in a Gallery Setting."

(With Sebastian Heath and Rachel Herschman.) Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 12 (2018). [link]

2017

"Citation and Alignment: Scholarship Outside and Inside the Codex."

(With Christopher Blackwell and Neel Smith.) Manuscript Studies 1.1 (2017). [link]

2016

"Digital Texts and Diagrams: Representing the Transmission of Euclid’s Elements."

Digital Classics Online 2.1 (2016). [link]

Publications in Conference Volumes

forthcoming

"Steps towards mining manuscript images for untranscribed texts: A case study from the Syriac collection at the Vatican Library."

(With Luigi Bambaci, George Kiraz, Matthieu Freyder, and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra.) Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2024.

2014

"Digital Editions and Diplomatic Diagrams."

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (2014). [link]

Book Reviews

2021

"Lambertus Willem Cornelis van Lit, Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World."

Die Welt des Islams 61.1 (2021): 136-138. [link]

Open Access Writing

2020

"Notes on Astronomy."

Lesson contributed to the digital textbook Mouse&Manuscript. [link]

2019

"Using Kraken to Train your own OCR Models."

Guest contribution to The Digital Orientalist. [link]


Upcoming and Recent Presentations

upcoming

"Diagram Transmissions from Arabic/Persian into Greek."

Translation and Transmission of Arabo-Byzantine Texts (Rome, Italy).

"Steps towards mining manuscript images for untranscribed texts: A case study from the Syriac collection at the Vatican Library."

(With Luigi Bambaci, George Kiraz, Matthieu Freyder, and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra.) Computational Humanities Research 2024 (Aarhus, Denmark).

"Machine Learning for Manuscript Texts and Images."

Mellon Seminar, Price Lab for Digital Humanities (Philadelphia, PA). [link]

2024

"Evaluating Augmented Training Data for Complex Document Layouts: the Case of Arabic Scientific Manuscripts."

ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2024: Reinvention & Responsibility (Arlington, VA). [link]

"Computational Approaches to Textual Multiplicity in Curricular Manuscripts."

Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna, Austria). [link]

"Theodore Metochites and the Byzantine study of Ptolemy in the 14th century."

Séminaire d’histoire des sciences astronomiques (Paris, France). [link]

2023

"The Recensions of Euclid’s Phaenomena: Transmissions into Arabic."

Delphi symposium on Greek Mathematics (Delphi, Greece).

"Linguistic Analysis in the Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Project."

(With Christopher B. Zeichmann and Michael L. Satlow). Poster session. ENCODE/Epigraphy.info VII Workshop (Leuven, Belgium). [link]