Giving Voice to Ancient Texts
Manuscript Scholarship in the Digital Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8965600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Columba Stewart (0000-0001-5198-9101, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-123 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002074381700099x |
| OpenAlex | W2790048623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The study of manuscripts was traditionally the preserve of scholar-curators in research libraries who devoted their lives to the exhaustive study and description of collections that were often gathered from several sources. The expected result of their solitary labor was a printed catalog that might describe at most a few hundred manuscripts from a particular linguistic or religious culture. That model has been challenged by the advent of large-scale digital projects that aggregate thousands or even tens of thousands of manuscripts from multiple libraries in a single database or portal
Art · Digital era · Digital humanities · Digital library · Digital scholarship · Literature · Political science · Scholarship · The Internet · World Wide Web · Classics · Computer Science · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |