Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript

Date: 

Saturday, October 19, 2019 (All day) to Sunday, October 20, 2019 (All day)

Location: 

Lamont Library room B30, 11 Quincy Street
A two-day, graduate student-led workshop addressing the codicological challenges posed by medieval manuscripts and the fundamentals of digital editing, including transcribing, commenting upon, and encoding the text and images of a medieval manuscript from Harvard's Houghton Library according to TEI P5 protocols. The workshop will be limited to twelve places, with preference given to graduate students with a demonstrated need for training in manuscript study and text encoding. The application form can be found here; for more information, please visit the workshop website. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Digital Scholarship Support Group (DSSG), the Committee on Medieval Studies, and the Department of Classics.