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Click to follow link." rel="noopener">Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, dedicated to building an online union catalog of manuscripts in member collections. To this end, members contribute available structured manuscript metadata to the recently redeveloped DS Catalog. Designed to reduce barriers to participation and ensure sustainability, the DS Catalog aggregates member data within a Linked Open Data platform built on Wikibase.
If you represent an institution with premodern manuscript collections that is not currently a member of the consortium and you would like to find out more about joining, please consider attending one of 3 information sessions via Zoom to be held on Friday afternoons at 3pm EST between February 16 and March 1. In these sessions, we will discuss the benefits of membership and what is involved in contributing your institution's data to the DS Catalog (spoiler alert: not a lot!), as well as take your questions about DS. To sign up for an information session, please complete this form.
Membership in DS is an investment in linking manuscript resources among institutions and out into the global linked data environment to advance discovery of and access to these unique witnesses of the world's shared intellectual and cultural heritages. The DS Catalog connects researchers around the world to member collections and promotes a network of scholarship shared among participating institutions. Membership is open to all North American institutions holding a collection or collections of premodern manuscripts.
For more information about specific aspects of DS, please visit the following pages:
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Regine Heberlein
Library IT Data Analyst
Princeton University Library
Pennington NJ
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