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Giving Voice to Ancient Texts: Manuscript Scholarship in the Digital Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2018

Columba Stewart
Columba Stewart*
Affiliation:
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minn.; e-mail: [email protected]
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Extract

The study of manuscripts was traditionally the preserve of scholar-curators in research libraries who devoted their lives to the exhaustive study and description of collections that were often gathered from several sources. The expected result of their solitary labor was a printed catalog that might describe at most a few hundred manuscripts from a particular linguistic or religious culture. That model has been challenged by the advent of large-scale digital projects that aggregate thousands or even tens of thousands of manuscripts from multiple libraries in a single database or portal.

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Roundtable
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , pp. 119 - 123
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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NOTES

1 Digital Scriptorium, accessed 29 September 2017, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/digitalscriptorium/.

2 Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records, accessed 29 September 2017, http://master.dmu.ac.uk/.

3 Paleography lessons for Arabic and Armenian manuscripts will be released in 2018 as part of vHMML 3.0.

4 HMML is contributing new names and titles to the Library of Congress to build up the nonwestern authority records.

5 For Mirador, see http://projectmirador.org/, accessed 29 September 2017, and on IIIF, see http://iiif.io/, accessed 29 September 2017.

6 For more information on Elastic Search, see https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch, accessed 29 September 2017.