Elisa Nury, Elena Spadini, From Giant Despair to a New Heaven: the Early Years of Automatic Collation
This article presents a commented history of automatic collation, from the 1940s at the very beginning of this practice until the end of the twentieth century. We look at how collation was progressively mechanised and automatised with algorithms, and how the issues raised throughout this period carry on into today’s scholarship. In particular, we examine in more detail the inner workings of early collation algorithms and their different steps in relation to the formalisation of the Gothenburg Model. The scholars of automatic collation also offer fascinating insights into the collaborations between Humanists and Computer Scientists, and into the reception of computers by philologists.
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