Training Materials and Guides
The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (HSMS) has developed a number of digital humanities resources over the past several years that do not fall under any of our other project categories but that we are pleased to make freely available to the scholarly community. These include user guides, workshop materials, and training resources designed to support researchers, educators, and students working with digital tools and textual corpora.
User Guides:
| User Guide for Voyant Tools A practical introduction to Voyant Tools, a web-based platform for the analysis and visualization of digital text corpora. |
| User Guide for the Analizador Corpus OSTA A comprehensive guide to the Analizador Corpus OSTA, the text processing tool developed by the HSMS for the lemmatization and morphological tagging of medieval Spanish texts. |
| User Guide for the Old Spanish Textual Archive (OSTA) A detailed guide to navigating and querying the Old Spanish Textual Archive, a lemmatized and morphologically tagged linguistic corpus of medieval Ibero-Romance texts. |
Digital Humanities:
| Humanistas con IA A set of presentations developed for a workshop at the Universidad de Valladolid (April 2026) on the application of artificial intelligence tools to humanities research and teaching. |
| Humanistas con IA A set of presentations developed for a workshop at the Universitat de Barcelona (April 2026) on the application of artificial intelligence tools to humanities research. |
Paleography Workshops:
| Gothic Print Leyes por la brevedad y orden de los pleitos. Salamanca: Juan de Porras, 1499?; Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España, INC/1801. International Congress on Medieval Studies (2019). |
| Gothic Script An introduction to different Gothic scripts prevalent in the Kingdoms of Castile and León. International Congress on Medieval Studies (2021). |
| Gothic Rotunda Script Pedro López de Ayala. Rimado de palacio. Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España, MSS/4055. International Congress on Medieval Studies (2022). |
| Gothic Rotunda Cursive Script Sancho IV el Bravo. Lucidario. Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España, MSS/6958. International Congress on Medieval Studies (2023). |
| Gothic Rotunda Script Libro del conocimiento de todos los reinos. Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España, MSS/1997. International Congress on Medieval Studies (2024). |
All the resources are free to use and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users are free to share and adapt these materials for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given and any derivative works are distributed under the same license.
