Digital Scriptorium for North American Manuscript Collections

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society

Manuscript Monday – A FREE Webinar provided by The Manuscript Society

Date: Monday, July 13 @ 8pm EST

Guest Presenter: Lynn Ransom, Curator of Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and Acting Executive Director, Digital Scriptorium

Host: Gerald “Jay” Gaidmore, The Manuscript Society

A pre-recorded webinar with a LIVE Q&A with presenter Lynn Ransom.

Title:

Digital Scriptorium: Towards a National Union Catalog of Premodern Manuscripts in North American Collections

Overview:

Launched in 2024, the new Digital Scriptorium Catalog aims to be the first national union catalog for premodern manuscripts in North America built on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. Following a brief history of similar attempts, Lynn will discuss the motivations and principles behind the redevelopment project and why it just might work this time.

Presenter:

Lynn Ransom is the Curator of Programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Since arriving at Penn in 2008, she has overseen the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts. an open-access, user-maintained finding aid for the world’s pre-modern manuscripts, and since 2020, has led the redevelopment of the Digital Scriptorium Catalog, a growing online national union catalog for premodern manuscripts in North American collections. She has published on issues related to the digital cataloging and manuscript description as well as on the illumination of devotional manuscripts of the 13th and 16th centuries and currently serves as the co-editor of the Schoenberg Institute’s journal Manuscript Studies.

To register for this webinar visit:

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