Live briefing
Everything about Digital Scriptorium
Consortium of American libraries
Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of American libraries with collections of medieval and early modern manuscripts, that is, handwritten books made in the traditions of the world's scribal cultures. The DS Catalog represents these manuscript collections in a web-based platform form building a national union catalog for teaching and scholarly research in medieval and early modern studies. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Digital ScriptoriumA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: King LearThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cellsCited 7,623 times
- Go sideways: Water Resources Collections and ArchivesA closely related topic
- Go sideways: DigitizationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells
"Born Medieval": MSS. in the Digital Scriptorium
Manuscripts and Metadata: Descriptive Metadata in Three Manuscript Catalogs: DigCIM, MALVINE, and Digital Scriptorium
Primary Sources, Research, and the Internet: The Digital Scriptorium at Duke
Digital Scriptorium
META II: Digital Vellum in the Digital Scriptorium
📚 Books worth reading
King LearWilliam Shakespeare · 1608
The Taming of the ShrewWilliam Shakespeare · 1631- 📕Civil War women · 1996
- 📕Ad*Access · 1999
Introduction to making very big booksUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Pensions · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Water Resources Collections and Archives The Water Resources Collections and Archives (WRCA), formerly known as the Water Resources Center Archives, is an archive with unpublished manuscript collection…
- Digitization Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital format, i.e., a format that can be read by computers. The result is the representation…
- International Image Interoperability Framework The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF, spoken as 'triple-I-eff') defines several application programming interfaces that provide a standardis…
- ETH Library The ETH Library, serving as the central university library at ETH Zurich, has a notable collection of scientific and technical information. It is considered…
- California Digital Library The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997. Under the leadership of then UC President Richard C. Atkinson…
- Howard Besser Howard Besser (born c. 1952) is a scholar of digital preservation, digital libraries, and preservation of film and video. He is Professor of Cinema Studies…
- Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to digitally preserve Greek New Testament…
- D-Scribe Digital Publishing D-Scribe Digital Publishing is an open access electronic publishing program of the University Library System (ULS) of the University of Pittsburgh. It…