Many libraries now are digitising their manuscripts and making these available online. Practices vary substantially in terms of image quality, presentation, permissions and so on, but it cannot be denied that having even basic images of every page and binding of a manuscript is a very useful resource. One of ...
I was recently asked to record a podcast for King's College London in which I answer four questions about the DigiPal project for a non-academic audience in no more than three minutes. The recording will be available online in due course, but in the meantime I thought it worthwhile to ...
I am very pleased to report the recent launch of InScribe, an online course for palaeography and manuscript studies which has been developed by the School of Advanced Studies and which is available at <http://www.history.ac.uk/research-training/courses/online-palaeography>. You can see the introductory module now which includes text, photographs of manuscripts, videos ...
In the previous instalment of this discussion, I raised some questions about dating manuscripts in a digital context. I am happy to say that this has provoked some fairly active discussion, both publicly and privately, particularly at the meeting of the Read more
A new vacancy has come up on the DigiPal team. Our developer, Stephan Hügel, has received a fully funded PhD studentship and so is no longer available to work on the project. We are delighted to see Stephan go on to such a good position, although we are also very ...