The wonderful chaos, the mess, the abundance, the depths, the urgency of digital serials research could be a deterrent to working with them in the university classroom.... The following case stud...
Archivists and special collections librarians have long sought technological solutions to their information management, workflow, and patron-access challenges.
http://www.archivejournal.net/notes/archivesspace-and-aeon-specialized-tools-in-an-integrated-world/
Whether it is a seventeenth-century poem or a nineteenth-century novel, every literary work in an anthology is formatted with the same introduction, heading, font, and margins. This regularizatio...
Although they are frequently celebrated for democratizing manuscript studies, digital manuscripts have just as often catalyzed divisive interactions. Medievalists who study digitized manuscripts,...
http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/digital-medieval-manuscript-cultures/
The potentialities of digital technology, for those of us concerned with the study of medieval manuscripts, invite some consideration. Our archive is the world: our materials are scattered across...
In 1995, as part of the Electronic Beowulf project, Professor Kevin Kiernan of the University of Kentucky and David French of the British Library’s Manuscript Conservation Studio took the Briti...
http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/why-do-we-digitize-the-case-for-slow-digitization/
Introduction Medieval manuscripts were made to be handled: to be read, to be touched, to be annotated, even kissed.1 Those fortunate enough to work directly with surviving written heritage contin...
Acid burn-through is a problem particularly prevalent in the earliest paper sources, where acidity and poor paper quality coupled with thick, acidic ink recipes (where frequently the liquid part ...
http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/recovering-lost-texts-rebuilding-lost-manuscripts/
Digital manuscripts are part of the infrastructure of medieval studies in the twenty-first century. Given this fact of contemporary scholarship, we need nuanced and detailed understandings of how...
The October 2017 issue of the paradigmatic journal of medieval studies, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, demonstrates that digital humanities and medieval studies have long been intertwin...
http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/julian-of-norwich-and-the-digital/