DS Notes & Insights

A blog for Digital Scriptorium related news and information.

June 2025 Updates

DS was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access grant and participated as an exhibitor at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies…

by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
June 9, 2025

An Extra Set of Eyes: how DS can help improve manuscript records, beyond the brief

DS Graduate Fellow Rose McCandless considers how DS can contribute to improving institutional data by providing an outside set of eyes.

by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow
May 29, 2025

Magna Carta in the DS Catalog

In light of new research on a Magna Carta manuscript held by Harvard Law School, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow Rose McCandless investigates early manuscripts containing Magna Carta that are discoverable in the DS Catalog.

by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow
May 16, 2025

May 2025 Updates

DS Catalog grows to over 25,000 records and DS presents new ways to stay connected to updates…

by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
May 8, 2025

Drawing the Lines: Cataloging Scope and the Question of Legal Documents

As our catalog expands and adapts to new member institutions and new types of materials, we find ourselves repeatedly returning to foundational questions: What belongs in the DS Catalog? What doesn’t? And why?

by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow
April 29, 2025

April 2025 Updates

DS Annual Member Meeting to be held in September in Columbus, Ohio and DS exhibiting at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in May in Kalamazoo, Michigan…

by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
April 7, 2025

Three Islamic Manuscripts at the California State Library

With the expertise of Dr. Evyn Kropf from our DS Advisory Council, our Graduate Fellow coordinates and summarizes newly generated descriptions of three Islamic manuscripts owned by the State Library of California that will soon be added to the DS Catalog.

by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow
March 27, 2025

Identifying and Representing Manuscripts in the DS Catalog

What is a “DS ID” and how does it function in the DS data model?

by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
March 18, 2025

March 2025 Updates

New records uploaded to the DS Catalog, search site improvements, and development of a DS metadata schema in RDF…

by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
March 4, 2025

Connecting the dots: Investigating a medieval binding fragment for Digital Scriptorium

Our Graduate Fellow investigates a medieval binding fragment as part of her work providing descriptive metadata services to member institutions.

by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow
February 27, 2025

Data Enrichment through Reconciliation and Annotation

How does institutional metadata become more powerful and more reusable in the DS Catalog?

by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
February 18, 2025

February 2025 Updates

Welcoming new members, presenting new DS Catalog data, celebrating the recognition of the Bibliographical Society…

by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
February 3, 2025