I'm sure this has come up before, but as part of something I'm working on, I've come across a whole trove of early (i.e. mid-1990s) on-line editions. In this case often designed as class projects and entirely non-medieval.
This makes me wonder if there is a "hidden corpus" of medieval digital editions out there--either still available on some murky corner of the web or lost due to restructuring of URLs at host institutions.
I wonder if it would be interesting to collect as big a bibliography of these as we could. If it turned out that there were hundreds, I'm sure I could whip together a web-form to allow bibliographic entry. But to start, what do people know of?
-dan
Would this existing resource be a good place to submit such links? Or is there a need for a similar-but-different resource that isn't specifically limited to fully digitized manuscripts?
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/index.php
~Becky Welzenbach
Quoting Daniel Paul O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@gmail.com:
I'm sure this has come up before, but as part of something I'm working on, I've come across a whole trove of early (i.e. mid-1990s) on-line editions. In this case often designed as class projects and entirely non-medieval.
This makes me wonder if there is a "hidden corpus" of medieval digital editions out there--either still available on some murky corner of the web or lost due to restructuring of URLs at host institutions.
I wonder if it would be interesting to collect as big a bibliography of these as we could. If it turned out that there were hundreds, I'm sure I could whip together a web-form to allow bibliographic entry. But to start, what do people know of?
-dan
-- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
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Becky, thanks for suggesting the CDMMS as a possible repository for this. I had just finished reading Dan's email, and been struck by how it was precisely that line of thinking that led Chris Baswell and myself to build the Catalogue in the first place. The infrastructure is pretty flexible, but for the time being, I'd like to keep the site focused on manuscripts digitized manuscripts. Hopefully, future versions of the site will have a broader remit, and can include online/ digital editions.
-Matthew
Matthew Fisher Assistant Professor Department of English University of California, Los Angeles
On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:44 AM, rwelzenb@umich.edu wrote:
Would this existing resource be a good place to submit such links? Or is there a need for a similar-but-different resource that isn't specifically limited to fully digitized manuscripts?
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/index.php
~Becky Welzenbach
Quoting Daniel Paul O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@gmail.com:
I'm sure this has come up before, but as part of something I'm working on, I've come across a whole trove of early (i.e. mid-1990s) on-line editions. In this case often designed as class projects and entirely non-medieval.
This makes me wonder if there is a "hidden corpus" of medieval digital editions out there--either still available on some murky corner of the web or lost due to restructuring of URLs at host institutions.
I wonder if it would be interesting to collect as big a bibliography of these as we could. If it turned out that there were hundreds, I'm sure I could whip together a web-form to allow bibliographic entry. But to start, what do people know of?
-dan
-- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ )
Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/
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-- Rebecca Welzenbach, MSI 2009 School of Information, University of Michigan rwelzenb@umich.edu
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I maintain a list here
http://uk.geocities.com/frege@btinternet.com/manuscripts/msguide.htm
mostly incunabula rather than medieaval, but there is some medieval.
Edward
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Paul O'Donnell" daniel.odonnell@gmail.com To: "Digital Medievalist" dm-l@uleth.ca Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 6:06 PM Subject: [dm-l] Early Digital Editions
I'm sure this has come up before, but as part of something I'm working on, I've come across a whole trove of early (i.e. mid-1990s) on-line editions. In this case often designed as class projects and entirely non-medieval.
This makes me wonder if there is a "hidden corpus" of medieval digital editions out there--either still available on some murky corner of the web or lost due to restructuring of URLs at host institutions.
I wonder if it would be interesting to collect as big a bibliography of these as we could. If it turned out that there were hundreds, I'm sure I could whip together a web-form to allow bibliographic entry. But to start, what do people know of?
-dan
There's also the digitized manuscripts section of the Andy Holt Virtual Library - but like the UCLA catalogue it's aimed at digital facsimiles, not editions. As far as I know there's not an existing bibliography (I haven't looked at Edward's list).
As far as editions floating around, I know that the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University had several small projects (many of them created when I was a student there, although ironically I had no hand in any of them), but they were taken offline when the webpage was updated (and, I assume, the servers moved) a couple of years ago. It would be nice to see them back online again. I'm sure the MI isn't the only institution that has/has had small projects like this online. I'm not sure how one might go about surveying them, though.
Dot
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Daniel Paul O'Donnelldaniel.odonnell@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure this has come up before, but as part of something I'm working on, I've come across a whole trove of early (i.e. mid-1990s) on-line editions. In this case often designed as class projects and entirely non-medieval.
This makes me wonder if there is a "hidden corpus" of medieval digital editions out there--either still available on some murky corner of the web or lost due to restructuring of URLs at host institutions.
I wonder if it would be interesting to collect as big a bibliography of these as we could. If it turned out that there were hundreds, I'm sure I could whip together a web-form to allow bibliographic entry. But to start, what do people know of?
-dan
-- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/) Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
Vox: +1 403 329-2377 Fax: +1 403 382-7191 (non-confidental) Home Page: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/
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/ Discussion list: dm-l@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 18:06, Daniel Paul O'Donnelldaniel.odonnell@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure this has come up before, but as part of something I'm working on, I've come across a whole trove of early (i.e. mid-1990s) on-line editions. In this case often designed as class projects and entirely non-medieval.
This makes me wonder if there is a "hidden corpus" of medieval digital editions out there--either still available on some murky corner of the web or lost due to restructuring of URLs at host institutions.
There are some medieval digital editions in the Oxford Text Archive as well. http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
I wonder if it would be interesting to collect as big a bibliography of these as we could. If it turned out that there were hundreds, I'm sure I could whip together a web-form to allow bibliographic entry. But to start, what do people know of?
Does this need to be as structured as a bilbiographic entry? Or just a categorised list of "links of interest to a digital medievalist"? Could we just create a page such as this on the DM Wiki?
-James
-- James Cummings, Director: Digital Medievalist Project
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