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# Digital Scriptorium

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- [Haverford College](https://digital-scriptorium.org/haverford/) - Member
- [The Athenaeum of Philadelphia](https://digital-scriptorium.org/philaathenaeum/) - Associate Member
- [Smith College, Special Collections, Mortimer Rare Book Collection](https://digital-scriptorium.org/smith/) - Member
- [Pepperdine University](https://digital-scriptorium.org/pepperdine/) - Member
- [Union College](https://digital-scriptorium.org/union/) - Member
- [University of Rochester](https://digital-scriptorium.org/rochester/) - Member
- [Ohio University](https://digital-scriptorium.org/ohio/) - Member
- [Lehigh University](https://digital-scriptorium.org/lehigh/) - Member
- [Fordham University, Archives and Special Collections](https://digital-scriptorium.org/fordham/) - Member
- [Buffalo and Erie County Public Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/bec/) - Member
- [University of Missouri, Ellis Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/missouri/) - Member
- [Princeton University](https://digital-scriptorium.org/princeton/) - Member
- [Bryn Mawr College](https://digital-scriptorium.org/brynmawr/) - Member
- [University of Chicago](https://digital-scriptorium.org/chicago/) - Member
- [Newberry Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/newberry/) - Member
- [Rochester Institute of Technology](https://digital-scriptorium.org/rit/) - Member
- [Williams College](https://digital-scriptorium.org/williams/) - Member
- [Boston Public Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/bpl/) - Member
- [Wellesley College](https://digital-scriptorium.org/wellesley/) - Member
- [University of Dayton](https://digital-scriptorium.org/dayton/) - Member
- [Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/jtsa/) - Associate Member
- [Cornell University](https://digital-scriptorium.org/cornell/) - Member
- [Columbia University Libraries and Barnard College Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/columbia/) - Member
- [Yale University, Beinecke Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/yale/) - Member
- [University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/berkeley/) - Member
- [University of California, Riverside, Tomás Rivera Library, Special Collections & Archives](https://digital-scriptorium.org/ucr/) - Member
- [University of California, Davis, Shields Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/ucd/) - Associate Member
- [City College of New York, Morris R. Cohen Library, Archives and Special Collections](https://digital-scriptorium.org/ccny/) - Associate Member
- [University of Wisconsin-Madison](https://digital-scriptorium.org/uwmadison/) - Member
- [University of Vermont, Silver Special Collections Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/vermont/) - Associate Member
- [Vassar College](https://digital-scriptorium.org/vassar/) - Member
- [New York Academy of Medicine](https://digital-scriptorium.org/nyam/) - Associate Member
- [The Ohio State University](https://digital-scriptorium.org/osu/) - Member
- [New York University, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/nyu/) - Member
- [Harvard University, Houghton Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/harvard/) - Supporting Member
- [University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center](https://digital-scriptorium.org/hrc/) - Supporting Member
- [Western Michigan University](https://digital-scriptorium.org/wmu/) - Member
- [Science History Institute](https://digital-scriptorium.org/shi/) - Associate Member
- [Saint Louis University](https://digital-scriptorium.org/slu/) - Member
- [Rutgers University, New Brunswick Libraries](https://digital-scriptorium.org/rutgers/) - Member
- [Providence Public Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/providence/) - Associate Member
- [University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts](https://digital-scriptorium.org/upenn/) - Supporting Member
- [The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Art Reference Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/nelsonatkins/) - Associate Member
- [University of Kansas, Kenneth Spencer Research Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/kansas/) - Member
- [Indiana University Bloomington, Lilly Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/indiana/) - Member
- [The Huntington](https://digital-scriptorium.org/huntington/) - Member
- [The Grolier Club](https://digital-scriptorium.org/grolier/) - Member
- [General Theological Seminary, Christoph Keller, Jr. Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/gts/) - Associate Member
- [Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections](https://digital-scriptorium.org/flp/) - Member
- [Conception Abbey, Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/conception/) - Associate Member
- [California State Library, Sutro Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/csl/) - Associate Member
- [American Academy in Rome, Arthur & Janet C. Ross Library, Barbara Goldsmith Rare Book Room](https://digital-scriptorium.org/rome/) - Associate Member
- [Folger Shakespeare Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/folger/) - Member
- [Oberlin College, Oberlin College Library Special Collections](https://digital-scriptorium.org/oberlin/) - Member
- [The Walters Art Museum, Manuscripts and Rare Books](https://digital-scriptorium.org/walters/) - Member
- [Tufts University, Tisch Library Special Collections](https://digital-scriptorium.org/tufts/) - Member
- [New York Public Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/nypl/) - Member
- [San Francisco State University, J. Paul Leonard Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/sfu/) - Associate Member

## Pages

- [Home](https://digital-scriptorium.org/) - Welcome to Digital Scriptorium! Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a growing consortium of American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts dedicated to building an online national union catalog for manuscripts in US collections. In addition to the new look and feel of this website, DS is pleased to announce the beta launch of the new
- [About DS](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/about-ds/) - Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American libraries and museums committed to providing cross-institutional digital access to their collections of pre-modern manuscripts and dedicated to enhancing access and appreciation of historically significant but often understudied manuscript materials. To fulfill our mission, DS commits to Building and maintaining an openly accessible, digital union catalog
- [The Maqāmah Genre and Audition Certificates: Union College's Manuscript Copy of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260629-union-maqamat/) - Posted June 29, 2026 by Kelly Tuttle, Manuscript Data Curation Fellow Recently, a manuscript copy of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt from Union College in Schenectady, New York came to DS for cataloging. The first thing I noticed about it when I flipped quickly through the digital surrogate is that it has audition certificates in it, which is
- [June 2026 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260610-updates/) - Posted June 10, 2026 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Members We are proud to announce two institutions newly joining DS: Haverford College as a Member and The Athenaeum of Philadelphia as an Associate Member. We look forward to the opportunity
- [DS Catalog Usage Statistics and Reports](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/stats-reports/) - Usage Statistics for DS Catalog records, generated June 10, 2026 (2024-06-01 to 2026-06-10) Overall usage: View | Download By traffic source: View | Download By date accessed: View | Download Notes on select Usage Statistics reports columns: Date added: the date the record/item was first entered into the DS Catalog Date updated: the date the record/item was
- [DMSI Recap: SPARQL and the Path from Description to Data](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260527-dmsi-sparql/) - Posted May 27, 2026 by Kelly Tuttle, Manuscript Data Curation Fellow In mid-May, Digital Scriptorium held a one-day workshop as part of the Digital Medieval Studies Institute (DMSI), which was held in Kalamazoo, Michigan just prior to the International Congress on Medieval Studies. The workshop, Manuscript Description and Research in the Digital Ecosystem, led by
- [May 2026 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260508-updates/) - Posted May 8, 2026 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. Eureka Fund Grant Awards The William G. Noel Eureka Fund Grant Committee is proud to announce its inaugural awards to the following institutions and projects, for work which will
- [For DS Member Contributors](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/for-ds-member-contributors/) - DS Catalog Record Contribution Process Overview Contributing your institution’s existing structured metadata relating to your manuscript objects to Digital Scriptorium (DS) is simple. It requires only that you have identified manuscript objects to contribute and that you have some structured metadata about each object in a shareable format. Typical formats include, but are not limited
- [Work in Progress](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260428-work-in-progress/) - Posted April 28, 2026 by Kelly Tuttle, Manuscript Data Curation Fellow Digital Scriptorium is a work in progress and will always be a work in progress because new members will join bringing new data and current members will continue to revise their data as new discoveries are made in their collections. As I was cleaning
- [Measuring the "Popularity" of Manuscripts: What items are of interest to users of the DS Catalog?](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250827-measuring-popularity/) - Posted August 27, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager One of the questions the team of the Mapping Manuscript Migrations (MMM) project wished to ask was about measuring the "popularity" of certain texts as evidenced in manuscripts of a given time period (i.e., "What was the most popular text by a
- [April 2026 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260409-updates/) - Posted April 9, 2026 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Records DS records have been added for manuscript objects from the following institutions: University of Dayton (Ethiopic manuscripts) University of Kansas (Greek and Russian manuscripts) Lehigh University (Codices) University of
- [The William G. Noel Eureka Fund](https://digital-scriptorium.org/support-ds/eureka-fund/) - The thing to do with data is to let it out for everyone to have it. --William G. Noel (1965 - 2024), from “Revealing the Lost Codex of Archimedes” TEDxSummit, April 2012 The William G. Noel Eureka Fund honors the legacy of one of the world's great manuscript scholars and powerful advocates of unfettered access
- [Rules for Writing](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260327-rules-for-writing/) - Posted March 27, 2026 by Kelly Tuttle, Manuscript Data Curation Fellow I was looking at digital images for items in DS and came across the image below. My immediate thought was, ‘Oh, this must not be finished’ because, to me, this page opening looks unbalanced with the illustration, illuminated borders and text on one side
- [March 2026 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260305-updates/) - Posted March 5, 2026 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Blog Post As Manuscript Data Curation Fellow Kelly Tuttle gets underway with description assistance for DS member institutions, her newest post on the DS Notes and Insights blog discusses Boston Public
- [Collecting, Surfacing, Comparing: The Power of the DS Catalog](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260225-collecting-surfacing/) - Posted February 25, 2026 by Kelly Tuttle, Manuscript Data Curation Fellow Something I like about DS is that it is a collecting and surfacing project and not a digitization project. There is no requirement that items be digitized for inclusion in DS. As much as I love a good digital manuscript project, the lack of
- [February 2026 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260210-updates/) - Posted February 10, 2026 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Member: Pepperdine University DS is proud to announce Pepperdine University as our newest member following a unanimous vote of approval. We at DS are looking forward to working with
- [Eureka Fund Call for Applications](https://digital-scriptorium.org/support-ds/eureka-fund/eureka-fund-call-for-applications/) - “The thing to do with data is to let it out for everyone to have it.” –William G. Noel (1965 - 2024), from “Revealing the Lost Codex of Archimedes” TEDxSummit, April 2012 The William G. Noel Eureka Fund honors the legacy of one of the world's great manuscript scholars and powerful advocates of unfettered access
- [Research and Documentation](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/research-and-documentation/) - DS-Related Publications Burrows, T. (2024). Exploring knowledge graphs for medieval and Renaissance manuscripts with SPARQL. Open Library of Humanities, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.15329 Burrows, T. (2026). Transforming the digital landscape: Towards a medieval knowledge graph. Speculum, 101(1), 205-210. https://doi.org/10.1086/738255 Cashion, D. T. (2016). Cataloging medieval manuscripts, from beasts to bytes. Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, 5(2), 135-159.
- [DS Catalog Querying and Visualization Made Easy: Collection Trends in Islamicate Manuscripts](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260127-easy-querying-and-visualization/) - Posted January 27, 2026 by Kelly Tuttle, Manuscript Data Curation Fellow Hi everyone. My name is Kelly Tuttle, and I’m the Manuscript Data Curation Fellow for the next two years. My background is in Arabic, and my interests are in Islamicate manuscripts. I am delighted to join DS since I have long wanted there to
- [December 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20251209-updates/) - Posted December 9, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. Fellowship Appointment From an incredibly strong and diverse group of applicants, we are very proud to announce that Kelly Tuttle has been selected as our next Manuscript Data
- [January 2026 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20260105-updates/) - Posted January 5, 2026 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Member: Union College DS is proud to announce Union College as our newest member following a unanimous vote of approval. We at DS are looking forward to working with
- [Staff & Governance](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/staff-governance/) - Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt consortium of American libraries with collections of pre- and early modern manuscripts. DS is registered in the State of Missouri. Staff Acting Executive Director: Lynn Ransom, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesContact: lransom@upenn.edu DS Catalog Project and Data Manager: L.P. Coladangelo, College of Communication and Information,
- [November 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20251105-updates/) - Posted November 5, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Member: Ohio University DS is proud to welcome Ohio University as the newest member of the consortium after a unanimous vote of approval at this year's Annual Meeting. We
- [October 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20251006-updates/) - Posted October 6, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. 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
- [The Friends of Digital Scriptorium](https://digital-scriptorium.org/support-ds/friends-of-ds/) - DS Friends contribute financially in support of our mission to provide cross-institutional digital access to our members’ collections of pre-modern manuscripts and enhance appreciation of historically significant but often understudied manuscript materials. Digital Scriptorium gratefully acknowledges the support of these Friends: Codices The Elizabeth C. Teviotdale Foundation Quires Lynn Ransom Bifolia Lisa Fagin Davis Regine
- [September 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250901-updates/) - Posted September 1, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. Call for Papers @ 61st ICMS The Peripheral Manuscripts Project and Digital Scriptorium have joined forces to organize the following session at the 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, to
- [DS 2.0 Project](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/ds-2-0/) - DS 2.0 is the project carried out between July 2020 and March 2023 to reimagine and rebuild the Digital Scriptorium database as the platform for an inclusive, online union catalog based on Linked Open Data principles and practices for all pre- and early modern manuscripts in the United States. In July 2020, with the University of
- [Data Model and Metadata Mapping](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/data-model/) - The data model allows representation of three main entities (green rectangles): Manuscripts, Records, and Holdings. Manuscripts are physical manuscript objects as they exist in the real world. Records are metadata descriptions about a Manuscript, based on contributed institutional data like library and museum catalog records or archival descriptions. Holding are metadata descriptions of holding information
- [August 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250808-updates/) - Posted August 8, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Records New and additional data for manuscripts held by the following member institutions have been recently added to the DS Catalog: Lehigh University Princeton University (additional Islamicate manuscripts)
- [Membership Information](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/membership-information/) - Membership in Digital Scriptorium (DS) is an investment in linking resources among member institutions and out into the global linked data environment to advance knowledge of and access to unique manuscript witnesses of the world's shared intellectual and cultural heritage housed in North American collections. Through its open and freely accessible online catalog built on
- [Support Digital Scriptorium](https://digital-scriptorium.org/support-ds/) - Digital Scriptorium offers two ways to support our work to make North American collections of global premodern manuscripts more discoverable through our online national union catalog built on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. The Friends of Digital Scriptorium advance our mission to provide cross-institutional digital access to collections of pre-modern manuscripts and to enhance
- [July 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250707-updates/) - Posted July 7, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Records New and additional data for manuscripts held by the following member institutions have been recently added to the DS Catalog, now growing to nearly 26,000 records, covering
- [DS, the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, and the value of manuscripts in the Midwest](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250728-ds-pmp-midwest/) - Posted July 28, 2025 by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow For this month’s blog post (and possibly next month’s, as well), I spoke with Sarah Noonan and Liz Hebbard from the Peripheral Manuscripts Project (PMP) to discuss our two projects and their shared values, with an eye on thinking about how
- [A (Small and Incomplete) Network of Manuscript Sales: How DS elucidates provenance and bookselling relationships via Linked Open Data, and some connections among manuscript collectors and sellers in the early 20th century](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250626-manuscript-sales-network/) - Posted June 26, 2025 by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow One of my favorite aspects of the data work I do at DS as the Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow is when I am able to witness connections between manuscripts that haven’t been observed before. This has been particularly common while
- ["But we only have a few manuscripts": the DS Catalog and visibility for institutions with smaller collections](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250616-wmu-visibility/) - Posted June 16, 2025 by Susan M. Steuer, Professor and Librarian for Distinctive Collections, Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University But we only have a few manuscripts… For some institutions, particularly those with small collections and limited cataloging staff, Digital Scriptorium membership may seem like a lot of work for relatively small return. The
- [June 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250609-updates/) - Posted June 9, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. NEH Grant Award Digital Scriptorium (through the University of Pennsylvania) has been awarded a Preservation and Access grant by the National Endowment of the Humanities to expand our work to make
- [Magna Carta in the DS Catalog](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250516-magna-carta-in-ds/) - Posted May 16, 2025 by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow Recent research has revealed that a copy of the Magna Carta long held by Harvard Law School has earlier origins than previously believed. Acquired in 1946 for a modest price, the document was thought to date to the mid-14th century. But
- [An Extra Set of Eyes: how DS can help improve manuscript records, beyond the brief](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250529-extra-eyes-improve/) - Posted May 29, 2025 by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow One aspect of my job as the DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow is to assist with the review and enrichment of our institutional members’ manuscript data. One of our institutional policies is that, upon reconciliation or enrichment of our members’
- [May 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250508-updates/) - Posted May 8, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Records The DS Catalog has now grown to over 25,000 records! New metadata for manuscript objects have been added to the DS Catalog, covering manuscripts held by 42 member
- [Drawing the Lines: Cataloging Scope and the Question of Legal Documents](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250429-catalog-scope-legal-documents/) - Posted April 29, 2025 by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow For this month’s blog post, I wanted to highlight a recent conversation within the Digital Scriptorium Advisory Council that underscores both the complexity and the necessity of defining a clear cataloging scope. As our catalog expands and adapts to new member
- [April 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250407-updates/) - Posted April 7, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. Annual Meeting Save the Date The 2025 Annual DS Member Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Eric
- [Three Islamic Manuscripts at the California State Library](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250327-csl-three-islamic-manuscripts/) - Posted March 27, 2025 by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow In my descriptive work as the DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow, I often come across manuscripts in need of description that are a little outside my range of expertise. This is why DS has an Advisory Council of experts on
- [Identifying and Representing Manuscripts in the DS Catalog](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250318-identifiers/) - Posted March 18, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager One of the paramount goals articulated by the DS 2.0 redevelopment project envisioning a national union catalog for manuscripts held by North American institutions was the ability to uniquely and persistently identify these rare cultural objects. This was felt especially important to
- [March 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250304-updates/) - Posted March 4, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Data New and additional data for manuscripts held by the following member institutions have been recently added to the catalog: University of Chicago Newberry Library Rochester Institute
- [February 2025 News and Updates](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250203-updates/) - Posted February 3, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager To get regular updates about DS, please subscribe to our email list by clicking here. New Members The voting membership have approved Bryn Mawr College and Lehigh University as full voting members of Digital Scriptorium. We are very excited to welcome them
- [Connecting the dots: Investigating a medieval binding fragment for Digital Scriptorium](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250227-investigating-williams-inc-m266/) - Posted February 27, 2025 by Rose A. McCandless, DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow One of my responsibilities as the Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow at DS is original metadata creation. Member institutions without the staff or expertise to describe their manuscripts can turn to me for metadata creation. With the help of the DS
- [Data Enrichment through Reconciliation and Annotation](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/20250218-data-enrichment/) - Posted February 18, 2025 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager Gathering metadata records from multiple institutions using multiple standards and formats can be a daunting task. Collecting and organizing the data alone requires a lot of work, but what about making all of that data (re)usable in one place? The DS Catalog
- [DS Notes & Insights](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/) - A blog for Digital Scriptorium related news and information. The Maqāmah Genre and Audition Certificates: Union College's Manuscript Copy of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt Fellow Kelly Tuttle makes a close examination of a special copy of al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt held by Union College, notable for the presence of audition certificates which record the authorized transmission of a text.
- [Privacy Policy](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/privacy-policy/) - Our policies conform to the Code of Ethics of the American Library Association, which provides this summation of the library community’s commitment to privacy: “We protect each library user’s right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted.” While we do gather data about system and
- [Using the DS Catalog Linked Data Query Service](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/querying-ds-linked-data/) - Integrated into our Wikibase is a Query Service which serves as a SPARQL endpoint. A SPARQL endpoint is a user interface for conducting queries in the SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. SPARQL queries allow users to query any database that is structured as linked data, meaning that the data has been encoded in a
- [Using the DS Catalog Wikibase](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/using-the-wikibase/) - Wikibase Items, Properties, and Values Wikibase, the database software which DS uses to publish its catalog, is structured on a triple-store architecture, similar to and compatible with data encoded in RDF. Like RDF subject-predicate-object triples, Wikibase uses triples in an item-property-value format, in which the entire triple is a called a statement. An item is
- [Using the DS Catalog Search Interface](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/using-the-ds-catalog/) - Metadata Glossary The following table provides the names and definitions of metadata elements in a DS Catalog record as well as the authority file or controlled vocabulary (if any) to which metadata values have been linked as part of our data enrichment process.
- [History](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/history/) - The current DS Catalog is built upon the shoulders of its predecessor. Established in 1997, the founders of Digital Scriptorium imagined a union catalog that could be easily maintained and updated through the application of digital technologies. Funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gladys Krieble
- [Catalog Portal](https://digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/) - Fully redesigned and developed to take advantage of new technologies and to meet the challenges of sustainability, the DS Catalog is a data repository, semantic portal, and knowledge base, allowing users to find manuscripts and explore member institutions’ collections in a single interface powered by Linked Open Data. Search allows you to use the DS
- [Feedback](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/feedback/) - For questions or comments about Digital Scriptorium, including the website, catalog, and database, please email us at dscriptorium2020@gmail.com. For feedback about data supplied by holding institutions, please contact the member institution directly. Member institution contact information can be found through our member directory. For feedback about the DS Catalog, please fill out our user feedback
- [Member Directory](https://digital-scriptorium.org/directory/)
- [Help](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/) - Using the DS Catalog Using the Wikibase For DS Member Contributors Querying DS Linked Data Wikibase Introduction Data Model
- [About](https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/) - Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of American institutions dedicated to providing integrated digital access to information about manuscripts from global cultures held in their collections. About DS History Staff & Governance Membership Information DS 2.0 Project Research & Documentation
- [FAQ](https://digital-scriptorium.org/faq/) - Where does the DS data come from? How is it created? In order to build our national union catalog, Digital Scriptorium takes whatever structured data a member institution has relating to its manuscript holdings, usually in the form of institutional catalog records. We aggregate and harmonize this data based on our data model, which conceptualizes
- [Wikibase Introduction](https://digital-scriptorium.org/help/wikibase-intro/) - The DS Catalog is powered by Wikibase, a Linked Open Database infrastructure that stores DS member metadata as Linked Open Data (LOD). Wikibase is the same software which supports Wikidata, a LOD hub that serves as the world's fastest growing knowledge graph. Although member data can be searched and accessed through the DS Catalog, the

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