It is all on the Web, so why bother? Special Collections in the Digital Age
Speakers: 1. Stefan Sinclair (McGill), 2. Lindsay Eckert (University of Toronto), 3. Fiona Black (Dalhousie), 4.Leslie Howsam (Windsor / SHARP) 5. Julie Cumming (McGill)
Moderator: Dean Ellen Aitken (McGill)
A Digital Panel at
Meetings with Books: Raymond Klibansky, Special Collections and the Library in the 21st Century
Workshop: The Pre-Modern Manuscript and Digitization
McGill researchers are gathering to discuss digitization of pre-modern manuscripts at McGill, and manuscript study in the Digital Age. The event is RSVP to digital [dot] humanities [at] mcgill [dot] ca.
Roger Easton “Imaging Technologies and an Impending New 'Golden Age' in Manuscript Studies"
The imaging of the visual appearance of manuscripts for wide dissemination via the internet is now widely practiced and has dramatically changed the lives of manuscript scholars.
Dirk Wintergruen, Robert Casties, Jamil Ragep (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / McGill) "The Open Mind database of the Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI)"
Traditional databases work well with structured data that can be organized into tables. But humanist scholars often deal with very unstructured information that is fluid and in need of flexible structures. The Open Mind database of the Islamic Scientific Manuscript Initiative (ISMI) was developed by humanist scholars and technical experts working jointly through a partnership between the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin and McGill's Institute of Islamic Studies.