Workshop: Translation and Encoding for the Making and Knowing Project

该奖项将于2017年6月下旬在法国图卢兹举办。它将与哥伦比亚大学科学与社会中心正在进行的研究“制造与认知项目”（Making and Knowing Project）一起举行。该研讨会是一系列跨学科转录、翻译和编码研讨会中的第四个。前三个有助于准确编码的法国历史文本转录，手稿Fr. 640。在最后一次研讨会结束时，根据实验重建证据和研究，制定了一个优化的协同编辑翻译协议。第四次研讨会将重新召集国际专家、项目组成员和回国的博士生执行该协议，完成稿件的数字标记/编码和准确一致的翻译以及相关资源。本次研讨会的成果将形成最终数据集，由哥伦比亚图书馆托管，作为开放获取的数字关键版，将于2019年推出。由此产生的开放获取版本将使手稿广泛地为不同的受众所访问；该版本将作为一个有价值的，广泛使用的研究和教学资源。技术摘要手稿Fr. 640包含了各种各样的配方和说明领域，如医学，金属加工，测量，弹道学，颜料和清漆制造，大炮铸造，以及动物行为的详细观察。《手稿》从未出版，也没有得到广泛研究。然而，它为手工作坊提供了无与伦比的第一手证据，并提供了对科学革命早期阶段的一瞥，当时自然主要是由熟练的工匠通过连续和系统的实验来研究的。因此，它在现代科学的起源中形成了一个关键的缺失环节，并代表了一种获得基于经验的知识的新模式，即科学方法的发展的关键历史时刻。制作和了解项目一直在通过采用跨学科方法检查手稿的书面和实践活动组合，包括手工重建食谱（使用历史相关材料，工具和过程）以及来自数字人文学科的新数据可视化和分析。本次研讨会将促进“制造和认知项目”为大规模跨学科、教学和合作研究开发的创新模式和标准化方法的进一步阐述和示范，这些方法目前正应用于其他大规模合作研究项目。

General Audience Summary This award is to support a workshop in Toulouse, France, in late June 2017. It is to be held in conjunction with ongoing research at the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, the Making and Knowing Project. The workshop is the fourth in a series of interdisciplinary transcription, translation, and encoding workshops. The previous three facilitated an accurate encoded transcription of a French historical text, Manuscript Fr. 640. At the conclusion of the last workshop, an optimized translation protocol for collaborative editing was developed, informed by experimental reconstruction evidence and research. The fourth workshop will reconvene international experts, project team members, and returning doctoral students to implement this protocol and complete the digital markup/encoding and the accurate and consistent translation of the manuscript as well as accompanying resources. Outcomes of this workshop will form the final dataset to be hosted by Columbia Libraries as an open-access digital critical edition that is to be launched in 2019. The resulting open-access edition will make the manuscript widely accessible to diverse audiences; the edition will serve as a valuable, widely-available research and pedagogical resource.Technical Summary Manuscript Fr. 640 contains a huge variety of recipes and instructions in areas as varied as medicine, metalworking, surveying, ballistics, pigment and varnish making, cannon casting, and detailed observations of animal behavior. The Manuscript was never published or extensively studied. Yet, it offers unrivaled first-hand testimony of the craft workshop, and provides a glimpse into the earliest phases of the Scientific Revolution, when nature was investigated primarily by skilled artisans by means of continuous and methodical experimentation in the making of objects. Thus, it forms a crucial missing link in the origins of modern science and represents a pivotal historical moment in the growth of a new mode of gaining empirically-based knowledge, the scientific method. The Making and Knowing Project has been examining the manuscript's assemblage of written and practiced activity by employing interdisciplinary methodologies, including hands-on reconstructions of the recipes (using historically relevant materials, tools, and processes) and new data visualization and analysis from the digital humanities. This workshop will facilitate further articulation and demonstration of the innovative model and standardized methodologies being developed by the Making and Knowing Project for large-scale interdisciplinary, pedagogical, and collaborative research, which is now being applied to other large scale collaborative research projects.