Re: [dm-l] advice for student?

-- Rebecca Welzenbach MPublishing / Text Creation Partnership University of Michigan Library rwelzenb@umich.edu On 3/25/11 8:19 AM, "Wendy Hoofnagle" sailordie@yahoo.com wrote: > Dear Torsten, > > I apologize for my vagueness. The information you provide re: the "nuts and > bolts" of the field is very helpful, but the student is also curious about > programs, etc, that she can go into to receive training in the field. I found > some information from the American Institute for Conservation, thinking > perhaps > the conservator programs in the US and abroad might be a way to go, but I was > wondering if the list had (career?) advice for a student who is interested in > going into the field of manuscript conservation. I hope this is a little > clearer now! > > Thank you all for the suggestions thus far! > > ~w. > -- > Wendy Marie Hoofnagle > University of Northern Iowa > Department of English Language and Literature > Baker 117 > Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0502 > Office: 319.273.7053 > Cell: 860.753.2211 > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Torsten Schassan schassan@hab.de > To: dm-l@uleth.ca > Sent: Fri, March 25, 2011 4:25:47 AM > Subject: Re: [dm-l] advice for student? > > Hi, > > even after Douglas' reply I'm not quite sure I understand the question nor the > answers: Are we talking about (are you in need of) > > - standards for digitisation > - - concerning equipment > - - concerning parameters during digitisation > - how to organise digitisation > - who started digitisation > - how to present manuscripts online? > > For each of the aspects there are lots of best-practice papers out there, > almost > every digitisation project has (or should have) these. > > Some places/papers to start with: > > - "DFG-Praxisregeln Digitalisierung"[1] (in German, sorry). > - Digital Scriptorium[2, look for "Technical Information"] > - e-codices[3] > > to name just a few. If I knew more about the real interests I might give more > references. > > Best, Torsten > > > [1] > http://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/praxisregeln_digital... > ierung.pdf > > > [2] http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu/about/ > > [3] http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/info > > -- Torsten Schassan > Digitale Editionen > Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen > Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 1364, D-38299 Wolfenbuettel > Tel.: +49-5331-808-130 (Fax -165), schassan {at} hab.de > > http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/europeana-regia.htm > http://www.hab.de/forschung/projekte/weiss64.htm > > > > Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ > Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org > News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ > Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 > Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l > > > > > > Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ > Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ > Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org > News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ > Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 > Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca > Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l