Connecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collections

Burrows, Toby

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“…Seeing patterns at a larger scale can offer new insights. Toby Burrows has written about some of the methodological challenges when using databases, such as the lack of interoperability between projects and the lack of standardized manuscript reference numbers across sources, meaning researchers could miss research on specific groups of manuscripts (Burrows 2018). He notes that "the present, highly fragmented, environment makes large-scale, comprehensive research extremely difficult" (Burrows 2018, 17).…”

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Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts

Burke

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing

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The methodologies students and scholars can use when working with early modern women's manuscripts are multiple. Insights can be gained from applying the techniques of book history and manuscript studies, such as the study of handwriting, layout, binding, and the structure of documents. Though hands-on analysis of manuscripts is ideal, many manuscripts are now available in digitized formats, and this entry outlines advantages and disadvantages to their use. In addition to using methods from early modern manuscript studies, scholars can also choose to use some from the field of women's writing, such as asking questions about identity and agency, bringing intersectional categories to bear (such as race, class, region, and religion), and asking what a focus on gender can reveal about choices of genre, audiences, and networks. Researchers need to be aware of the challenges that can arise when working with manuscripts, from problems in attributing manuscripts to women, to accounting for lost texts, to deciding whether to pursue research via case studies or by using larger aggregate data, to being wary of existing editions. Finally, as with any kind of scholarship, scholars need to be sensitive to their own desire to impose categories and preconceptions on writing from a period that is very different from their own.

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Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts

Burke

2021

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing

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“…But there is a comparative lack of interoperable infrastructure for digital manuscript metadata which can support detailed and complex research into manuscript history and provenance. The evidence base remains fragmented and scattered across data sources (Burrows, 2018). This fragmentation has made it difficult to study manuscripts across these platforms to achieve a more comprehensive, and potentially global, understanding of the role that these unique objects have played in our shared cultural and intellectual heritage.…”

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Harmonizing and publishing heterogeneous premodern manuscript metadata as Linked Open Data

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Burrows

Hyvönen

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Manuscripts are a crucial form of evidence for research into all aspects of premodern European history and culture, and there are numerous databases devoted to describing them in detail. This descriptive information, however, is typically available only in separate data silos based on incompatible data models and user interfaces. As a result, it has been difficult to study manuscripts comprehensively across these various platforms. To address this challenge, a team of manuscript scholars and computer scientists worked to create "Mapping Manuscript Migrations" (MMM), a semantic portal, and a Linked Open Data service. MMM stands as a successful proof of concept for integrating distinct manuscript datasets into a shared platform for research and discovery with the potential for future expansion. This paper will discuss the major products of the MMM project: a unified data model, a repeatable data transformation pipeline, a Linked Open Data knowledge graph, and a Semantic Web portal. It will also examine the crucial importance of an iterative process of multidisciplinary collaboration embedded throughout the project, enabling humanities researchers to shape the development of a digital platform and tools, while also enabling the same researchers to ask more sophisticated and comprehensive research questions of the aggregated data.

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Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts

Burke

2022

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing

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Connecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collections

Abstract: This article has been peer reviewed through the double-blind process of Open Library of Humanities, which is a journal published by the Open Library of Humanities.

Cited by 7 publications

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Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts

Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts

Harmonizing and publishing heterogeneous premodern manuscript metadata as Linked Open Data

Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts

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