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Les CEMA - Cartae Europae Medii Aevi sont désormais sur BlueSky !

7/ 🔗 Learn More
Explore the project: CEMA Website cema.lamop.fr
Read the academic overview: arXiv Paper arxiv.org/abs/2105.00932
Other papers using the CEMA: cnrs.hal.science/hal-04839515 ; shs.hal.science/halshs-04073... ; hal.science/hal-03785549

6/ 🚀 Future Goals
The project envisions further growth: Expanding the corpus to include lesser-studied regions; Enhancing NLP-ML-AI tools for more refined linguistic and networks analysis; Promoting interdisciplinary dialogue between history, linguistics, and computer science.

5/ 🧠 Key Research Applications.
The CEMA project opens doors to new researches: Linguistic studies: Tracing the evolution of medieval Latin and vernaculars; Historical semantics: Analyzing concepts and their shifts over time; Comparative history: Studying networks of power across Europe.

4/ 🧩 Why Combine These Collections?
Full-text digital medieval charters are scattered across institutions, languages, and formats. CEMA aims to bring them together, harmonize metadata, and standardize digital formats. The result is a meta-corpus that’s unprecedented in scope and accessibility.

3/ 🌐 The Project Vision. CEMA unifies disparate collections of charters into a structured, searchable & lemmatized corpus. Its goal? To create a tool for historians, linguists, and digital humanities scholars to analyze texts across Europe seamlessly: nosketch-engine.lamop.fr#concordance?...

2/ 🗂 What is a charter? Charters were essential in the medieval world for recording cultural and social transactions. From land grants to agreements, these documents offer unparalleled insight into medieval life, language, and power structures.

🔍 The Cartae Europae Medii Aevi (CEMA) project is advancing medieval studies by creating a unified, open-access corpus of European medieval charters. It's an effort to centralize, standardize, and digitize a dataset. The current online version contains 240,000 charters, and the next version 400,000.

Cartae Europae Medii Aevi – A Place for the Europaen Charters of the Middle Ages CEMA - Cartae Europae Medii Aevi (5th-15th c.)

cema.lamop.fr

Happy to be on BlueSky! A new version of the CEMA is coming soon, in 2025, with about 400,000 charters AND a dataset 🙂 For medievalists who are not familiar with the project and would like to find out more, here is a brief summary 🧵