Posted October 6, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
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DS @ Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI) 2026
DMSI 2026 will take place on the campus of Western Michigan University on May 13, 2026, immediately preceding the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies. The Digital Medieval Studies Institute is presented in cooperation with the Digital Medievalist, the Newberry Library, and the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. Additional financial support has been provided by the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Michigan University and Western Michigan University Libraries.
Digital Scriptorium is pleased to be presenting a workshop at DMSI 2026:
Manuscript Description and Research in the Digital Ecosystem
L.P. Coladangelo, Digital Scriptorium
Lynn Ransom, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
This workshop will begin with a hands-on encounter with undescribed or underdescribed manuscript materials from the WMU collections. In the morning session, using material clues from the manuscript, instructors will work with participants to identify the manuscript’s physical, scribal, and textual characteristics and create a description of it. In the afternoon, instructors will introduce online tools and finding aids to learn more about the manuscript and others like it, including platforms for provenance research such as the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts, to find out where the manuscript came from and where it has been. Participants will then craft a machine-readable version of the newly-made description that will be contributed to WMU’s catalog for upload to the Digital Scriptorium Catalog. By following metadata standards informed by linked data practices, the newly described manuscript will thereby be made discoverable and citable by others. This workshop is geared toward humanities scholars and medievalists who are interested in not only manuscript research but the tools and technologies that lead to new discoveries in digital environments.
To learn more about the workshops, please follow this link: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/dmsi