DS-Related Publications
Cashion, D. T. (2016). Cataloging medieval manuscripts, from beasts to bytes. Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, 5(2), 135-159. https://doi.org/10.1353/dph.2016.0009
Cashion, D. T., & Ransom, L. (2024). Digital Scriptorium: Keeping up with the times. In S. Gilsdorf & L. K. Morreale (Eds.), Digital medieval studies: Experimentation and innovation (pp. 137-156). ARC Humanities Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18108222.11
Coladangelo, L. P., & McCandless, R. A. (2024). One object, fluctuating trajectories: Harnessing the document future of premodern manuscripts. Proceedings from the Document Academy, 11(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/11/2/1
Duggan, M. K. (1999). Teaching manuscripts from a digital library on the web. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 14(2), 151-160. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/14.2.151
Dutschke, C. W. (2008). Digital Scriptorium: Ten years young, and working on survival. Storicamente, 4, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1473/stor298
Dutschke, C. (2013). Digital Scriptorium as a construction site for ascertained manuscripts. In Medieval Autograph Manuscripts: Proceedings of the XVIIth Colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine, Ljubljana, 7-10 September 2010 (pp. 281-289). Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BIB.1.101483
Faulhaber, C. B. (1999). The Digital Scriptorium: A new way to study medieval Iberian manuscripts. In D. Dougherty & M. M. Azevedo (Eds.), Multicultural Iberia: Language, literature, and music. https://escholarship.org/content/qt53p1j36j/qt53p1j36j.pdf#page=16
Humphrey, J. (2007). Manuscripts and metadata: Descriptive metadata in three manuscript catalogs: DigCIM, MALVINE, and Digital Scriptorium. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 45(2), 19-39. https://doi.org/10.1300/J104v45n02_03
Johnston, M. (2000). The Digital Scriptorium and Master: Two major initiatives in online manuscript cataloging: A report from the 2001 International Congress on Medieval Studies. La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 29(2), 249-256. https://doi.org/10.1353/cor.2000.0013
Koho, M., Coladangelo, L. P., Ransom, L., & Emery, D. (2023). A Wikibase model for premodern manuscript metadata harmonization, linked data integration, and discovery. Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594723
Manifold, K., Klose, A. C., Fintel, A., & McCrory, A. (2025). Fragments in cyberspace: The Ohio State University’s digital collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscript fragments. Journal of Library Metadata, 25(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2024.2403927
Mendenhall, T. R., & Haugen, M. (2023, March 9). Migrating manuscript data from Digital Scriptorium to CLIO. Technically Speaking. https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/tsl/2023/03/09/migrating-manuscript-data-from-digital-scriptorium-to-clio/
DS-Related Presentations
L.P. Coladangelo, “Putting It Together: Lessons Learned from Implementation of the DS 2.0 Project for the Digital Scriptorium Catalog,” 2024 LD4 Conference, October 10, 2024 (Video)
Rose A. McCandless, “Bridging the Digital Scriptorium Data Model and Wikidata to Expand Reuse of Manuscript Metadata,” 2024 LD4 Conference, October 16, 2024 (Video)
DS Catalog LEADING Fellowship Presentations, March 8, 2024 (Video)
- Jade Snelling, “Data Incognita: Digital Scriptorium in a Semantic Web Context” (Slide deck)
- Mace Jones, “Visualizing and Annotating the Digital Scriptorium” (Slide deck)
DS 2.0 Project Research and Presentations
Koho, M., Coladangelo, L. P., Ransom, L., & Emery, D. (2023). A Wikibase model for premodern manuscript metadata harmonization, linked data integration, and discovery. Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594723
Coladangelo, L. P., Ransom, L., & Emery, D. (2022, December 2). Digital Scriptorium 2.0: Toward a community-driven LOD knowledge base and national union catalog for premodern manuscripts [Conference presentation]. 14th Semantic Web in Libraries Conference (SWIB22). https://swib.org/swib22/programme.html#day5
Slides | Video
Ransom, L. (2022, July 15). Digital Scriptorium: Building an LOD platform for a national union catalog for premodern manuscripts in U.S. collections [Presentation]. LD4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QVdP_ISmUY
DS 2.0 Project Reports and Documentation
Project Development Documentation and Open Data Repositories
https://github.com/DigitalScriptorium
Project Reports and Presentations
DS 2.0 May 2022 Stakeholder Meeting (YouTube video)
IMLS Project Report No. 4, December 2021 (PDF)
DS 2.0 2021 Annual Meeting Presentation (PDF)
IMLS Project Report No. 3, June 2021 (PDF)
Plans for Data Model and Workflow from 2nd Stakeholder Meeting, April 2021 (PDF)
Comparison of Data Fields in Digital Manuscript Library/Catalog Projects (PDF)
Environmental Scan, March 2021 (PDF)
Data Assessment, February 2021 (PDF)
IMLS Project Report No. 2, February 2021 (PDF)
Schoenberg Symposium Lightning Talk, 18-20 Nov 2020: Digital Scriptorium 2.0 Planning Grant (YouTube video)
IMLS Project Report No. 1, November 2020 (PDF)
DS Institutional Survey Results (PDF)