Dear List,
In 2009, the Digital Medievalist Journal will be publishing a special issue on the lessons learned from pre-web digital medieval projects. The editors have compiled a list of scholars we will be inviting to submit articles for this issue, however we feel the list as it stands is rather Anglo-centric. We are turning to the list to suggest potential authors - either scholars who themselves developed pre-web projects, or who have studied such projects with an historical view. We would especially like the names of non-US, non-Canadian, and non-English scholars. Please send suggestions to the DM list, or directly to the DM Editorial Board (editors@digitalmedievalist.org).
Many thanks, Dot
Dear Dot,
As far as your request for potential authors on DM list, I am pleased to pass you the following information.
There is a French pre-web medieval iniciative that I think is worth to be mentioned: Dr. Jerome Baschet, Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and member of the Groupe d'anthropologie historique de l'Occident Medieval (more info here: http://gahom.ehess.fr/document.php?id=505),http://gahom.ehess.fr/document.php?id=505 led in the early nineties a team in charge of the project of indexing the Vatican Library and the creation of a thesaurus. Two bibliographic references about this experience are: Baschet, J., "Les videodisques de manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Vaticane et la realisation d'une base de donnees iconographique", Arte medievale, II Serie, Anno VI, n.1 (1992): 199-205, and Baschet, J., "Remarques sur l'indexation iconographique. L'experience des videodisques des manuscrits de la Bibliotheue Vaticane", Melanges de l'Ecole Française de Rome. Moyen Age, T. 106, 1 (1994): 179-188. The e-mail of Mr. Baschet is jerome.baschet@ehess.fr
Best Regards,
Begonya Cayuela Member of Group Ars Picta (www.arspicta.net) Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2009/1/22 Dot Porter dot.porter@gmail.com
Dear Dot
if "studied with an historical view" includes use of such projects in research and teaching then I could, shamelessly, suggest myself in the field of Medieval and Early Modern Greek studies.
Best wishes Notis
2009/1/25 Begoña Cayuela Vellido begonya.cayuela@gmail.com