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SUMMARY:Mirador: Medieval Manuscripts (and Much More) in a New Light
DTSTART:20150604T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey F. Hamburger\, Harvard University\, Cambridge (UK)\nIn
  collaboration with the Stanford University Library\, Harvard University (
 represented by the University Library\, HarvardX\, and the Committee for t
 he Digital Humanities) have for the last two years been working to develop
  a new IIIF-compliant image viewer designed\, above all else\, to faciliat
 e the study of medieval manuscripts. The viewer\, however\, can be used fo
 r any object that can be reproduced in the form of digital photography\, a
 nd work is underway to expand the viewer’s capacity to encompass other f
 orms of digital representation\, such as time-based media (music\, video).
  In addition to a sophisticated viewer incorporating many features require
 d by scholars (and students)\, Mirador also incorporates advanced annotati
 on capabilities which will\, in due course\, be undergirded by a database 
 that links back\, not only to specific images\, but to specific locations 
 on images.  Annotation user groups can be adjusted\, as can the tagging s
 ystem employed.\nIn addition to introducing and demonstrating Mirador in i
 ts latest incarnation\, the presentation will sketch six case studies that
  are currently in the process of being formulated and that will be propose
 d to the Mellon Foundation as part of a grant application designed to text
  and expand Mirador’s functionality in relation to current scholarly and
  pedagogic requirements. The case studies are i) an edition of a Middle En
 glish text\, which requires the collation of over 50 manuscripts\, ii) an 
 analysis of English legal statutes\, which requires complex tagging\, iii)
  the analysis of Latin inscriptions in illuminated manuscripts\, whose vis
 ual aspects cannot adequately be represented by a conventional edition\, i
 v) aninteroperable database of Byzantine coins\, drawing on three of the w
 orld’s major collections\, v) a liturgical database of French and Flemis
 h Books of Hours\, vi) the annotation of ethnographic recordings and films
 \, and vii) the incorporation of Mirador into a series of commissioned wor
 ks of installation art pieces for which the program will provide both docu
 mentation and a means of audience interaction.\nThe presentation will conc
 lude with discussion of the potential of the program to aid in research on
  illuminated manuscripts\, the speaker’s special area of interest\, with
  a focus on a little-known group of liturgical manuscripts from the Domini
 can convent\, Paradies bei Soest\, dating to the period 1300–1425.
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