Workshops and Seminars
Large Scale Manuscript Digitization Report
Advances in digital photographic technology, mass data store andnetworking capacity have in the last years reached the point where it is now possible to contemplate large scale digital photography of manuscript materials. However, such projects must be rigorously examined, as any programme would need to ensure that it could deliver the quality required while protecting the originals from any degradation through the digitization process.
This one-day symposium examined the current situation in the UK with regard to the digitization of historical and literary manuscripts. This seminar invited experts from digitization projects in Europe who have worked on large-scale manuscript digitization initiatives, representatives of UK manuscript holding institutions, interested academic experts and digital humanities specialists to discuss the possibilities and implications of large-scale manuscript digitization. Presentations and discussions examined different methods of how to best achieve a high volume of digitization in a timescale that makes conservation safe, financially viable and academically useful.
AHDS Methods Taxonomy Terms
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Disciplines
- Librarianship and Museum Studies
- English Literature and Languages
- European Literature and Languages
- Non-European Literature and Languages
Methods
- Communication and collaboration - Textual collaborative publishing
- Communication and collaboration - Graphical collaborative publishing
- Data Analysis - Collating
- Data Analysis - Collocating
- Data Analysis - Concording/Indexing
- Data Analysis - Content analysis
- Data Analysis - Data mining
- Data Capture - 2d Scanning/photography
- Data Capture - Manual transcription
- Data Capture - Text recognition
- Data Capture - Usage of existing digital data
- Data publishing and dissemination - Cataloguing / indexing
- Data publishing and dissemination - Textual collaborative publishing
- Data publishing and dissemination - Textual resource sharing
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - conceptual
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - document structure
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - linguistic structure
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - nominal
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - presentational
- Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - referential
- Strategy and project management - Documentation
- Strategy and project management - ICT project management