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Digital Scriptorium (digital-scriptorium.org), a growing consortium of over 40 American institutions with collections of manuscripts representing global manuscript cultures. Since 1997, DS has dedicated its work to providing a digital infrastructure for building an online national union catalog for manuscripts in American collections. In June 2023 and in partnership with the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at Penn Libraries, DS launched a fully reconceived platform based on linked open data technologies and practices developed by SIMS’s combined expertise in manuscript studies, digital humanities, cultural heritage computer programming, and project management under the project name DS 2.0. Now known as the “DS Catalog,” the new public-facing platform uses Wikibase, an open source, LOD-based software to collect and store consortium members’ structured metadata relating to their premodern manuscripts. In this lecture, we will introduce the new platform and explore its applications for manuscript research in US collections in an LOD environment.
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series presents regularly scheduled lectures related to the study of premodern manuscript books and global manuscript culture.
Lynn Ransom is the Curator of Programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at Penn Libraries. She currently serves as the Executive Director and President of Digital Scriptorium and is the Project Director for the DS Catalog Project.
L. P. Coladangelo is the DS Catalog Project & Data Manager and a PhD Candidate in the College of Communication and Information at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. His research interests include knowledge organization of cultural heritage, metadata, information representation of folk traditions, digital humanities, semantic technologies, cultural transmission, and semiotics.
