Some links concerning medieval manuscript cataloguing, databases, etc.

Projects

MASTER: Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records


The MASTER definitions have now (10/2006) become an integral part of the Text Encoding Intiative:  
See


For historical pages on the original development of MASTER, see:
  • MASTER home page 
  • MASTER Project archived files
  • Reference Manual for the MASTER Document Type Definition
  • Conference on MS encoding, Studley Priory, 2-3 Nov 1996.
    Includes further important links. The project that emerged from this conference has been named "MASTER" (manuscript access through electronic records).

    As of early 1999, the MASTER project proper has received EU funding, and current project details are available from a new website at

  • A related project based at the Bodleian Library .
    On applying SGML/TEI to the cataloguing of Western medieval manuscripts.

    • EAMMS: Electronic Access to Medieval Manuscripts

  • Hill Museum &  Manuscripts Library. Including the Electronic Access to Medieval Manuscripts (EAMMS) project.
  • AMREMM [UPDATED] [4/2006]
    Manuscript cataloging standards entitled Descriptive Cataloging of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early-modern Manuscripts (AMREMM).

    These rules are intended as a supplement to AACR2 -- similar in scope to Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (DCRB) and Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts (APPM) -- to allow creation of item-level MARC catalog records for pre-modern manuscript materials in library on-line public access catalogs as well as in the national bibliographic utilities OCLC or RLIN.

    For a review and response, click here. [December 2000]

    See the EAMMS MARC Intitiative for orientation on these materials.

    • The Digital Scriptorium

    Other projects

  • Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts [NEW] [Nov 2002]
    From the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, The Netherlands.
  • Early Manuscripts at Oxford University [NEW]
    Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals.
  • [US] Council on Library and Information Resources
    Point of reference for digital library work, including the Digital Library Federation , and the Council on Library Resources Commission on Preservation and Access Digital Collections Inventory Report by Patricia A. McClung February 1996
  • Memoriae Mundi Series Bohemica
    MS digitization research at the Czech National Library, Prague. Member of the UNESCO Memory of the World project.
  • Institute for Asian Studies, Madras
    An IAS project to preserve Tamil palm-leaf manuscripts, especially on medicine and science. Member of the UNESCO Memory of the World project.
  • Mikrofilmarchiv und Handschriftendatenbank.
    Online microfilm archive and International Computer Catalog of Medieval Scientific Manuscripts (ICCMSM) database at the Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften der Universität München . Here is the ICCMSM database but at present it only displays to sites with pre-arranged permission.
  • ACSAM: American Committee for South Asian Manuscripts
  • IBM Digital Library.
  • International Dunhuang Project. At the British Library.
  • Philobiblon
  • Philobiblon version of MESS (Medical Sciences in Sanskrit) manuscripts database.
  • The electronic Beowulf.
  • Preserving digital information.
    An important report by the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group on the long-term preservation of digital materials.
  • The Duke University Papyrus Archive.
  • A collection of links to medieval western manuscript presentation projects. Part of "Byzantine & Medieval Studies Sites" hosted by Fordham. ( Click here for the version without frames.)
  • DScriptorium.
    DScriptorium is devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts.
  • The Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition.
    The related technical information developed in this context includes interesting discussions of relevant topics (Dublin Core, Metadata, TEI, SGML, databases, MARC, interoperability).
  • See also...
    Courtesy of the Czech National Library.

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    Dominik Wujastyk
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