Workshop: Translation and Encoding for the Making and Knowing Project

普通观众摘要该奖项是为了支持2017年6月下旬在法国图卢兹举行的研讨会。它将与哥伦比亚大学科学和社会中心正在进行的研究-制造和了解项目-一起举行。这次研讨会是一系列跨学科转录、翻译和编码研讨会的第四个研讨会。前三个促进了对法国历史文本手稿Fr的准确编码转录。640.在最后一次研讨会结束时，根据实验重建证据和研究，制定了用于协作编辑的优化翻译协议。第四期讲习班将再次召集国际专家、项目团队成员和回国的博士生执行这一协议，并完成数字标记/编码和手稿的准确和一致的翻译以及附带的资源。这次研讨会的成果将形成哥伦比亚图书馆将于2019年推出的开放获取数字关键版本的最终数据集。由此产生的开放获取版本将使不同的受众广泛地访问该手稿；该版本将作为一种有价值的、广泛可用的研究和教学资源。在医学、金工、测量、弹道学、颜料和清漆制造、大炮铸造和动物行为的详细观察等领域，640包含了大量的食谱和说明。这份手稿从未发表过，也从未被广泛研究过。然而，它提供了无与伦比的手工艺车间的第一手证据，并提供了对科学革命早期阶段的一瞥，当时大自然主要是由熟练的工匠通过连续和有条不紊的制作物品的实验来研究的。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--科学方法--成长的关键历史时刻。制作和了解项目一直在审查手稿的书面和实践活动的集合，采用跨学科的方法，包括动手重建食谱(使用历史上相关的材料、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。该讲习班将有助于进一步阐明和展示制造和了解项目正在开发的创新模式和标准化方法，用于大规模跨学科、教学和协作研究，目前正在应用于其他大型协作研究项目。

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.