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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 322: Studies in Manuscripts, I: The Data

Monday 5 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:N Yavuz, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet
Moderator/Chair:N Yavuz, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet
Paper 322-aDiscovering and Digitizing Pre-1600 Manuscripts in the United States: A Progress Report
(Language: English)
Lisa Fagin Davis, Medieval Academy of America, Massachusetts
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Bibliography, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 322-bDistant Cataloguing, or How to Catalogue the Vatican Manuscripts on One Dollar a Day
(Language: English)
Aaron Macks, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Bibliography, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 322-cInternational Standard Manuscript Identifiers and the World of Linked Data
(Language: English)
Toby Burrows, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Bibliography, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

Research on manuscripts continues to gain prominence in the field of medieval studies. The first session will look into current and future trends in manuscript studies including digitisation and cataloguing. Davis will examine the historical growth of pre-1600 European manuscript holdings in the United States, the current state of the corpus, and the future of cataloguing, hosting and discoverability. Macks will talk about the architecture behind the weekly updates for the 'Recently Digitized Manuscripts from the BAV' (http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/), with examples of how minimal cataloguing leads to discoveries. Burrows will discuss the idea of assigning unique identifiers to medieval manuscripts, how such a system could be implemented and why we need standard identifiers in a world of linked data.