Dear all,

*Apologies for cross-posting!*

On November 4th-5th, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park will host the “Manuscripts in the Digital Age Workshop," which is co-sponsored by Tufts University’s Perseids Project http://perseids.org/, UMD’s Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy http://arhusynergy.umd.edu/, UMD’s School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) http://sllc.umd.edu/, and Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science https://www.kent.edu/slis). It will bring together researchers, curators, librarians, and technical specialists from the Perseus Digital Library, Library of Congress, Digital Latin Library, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (UPenn), Freer & Sackler Galleries, and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities to discuss the technical challenges for the creation of an integrated online "manuscript workspace."

The technical participants in this workshop want to better understand the needs and types of functionality that scholars, students, citizen scientists, and those working in the GLAM sector would ideally like to see in such a workspace. For this reason, we are asking any of you who work on manuscripts to consider taking this very brief questionnaire http://kentstate.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9F8TmPXVOAZ1GHH about what types of features and functionality you would like to see developed for digital manuscript studies: http://kentstate.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_ 9F8TmPXVOAZ1GHH

Sincerely,

Bridget Almas, Perseids Project, Tufts University

Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University

Matthew Thomas Miller, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland Joshua Westgard, University of Maryland Libraries