{"id":1806,"date":"2017-05-01T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2017-05-02T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:19:19","slug":"digital-scriptorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/digital-scriptorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Scriptorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bancroft.berkeley.edu\/BANC\/digitalscriptorium\/\">Digital Scriptorium (DS)<\/a> is a partnership between approximately forty American Libraries, Museums, and Associations housing collections of manuscripts from the Middle-Ages and Renaissance. A list of participating institutions can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/bancroft.berkeley.edu\/BANC\/digitalscriptorium\/about\/contact.html\">here<\/a>. Governance is ensured by an Executive Director, and a Board of Directors, and funding comes from membership dues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1863\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2017\/05\/Digital-Scriptorium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1077\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2017\/05\/Digital-Scriptorium.jpg 1077w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2017\/05\/Digital-Scriptorium-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2017\/05\/Digital-Scriptorium-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2017\/05\/Digital-Scriptorium-1024x439.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/files\/2017\/05\/Digital-Scriptorium-500x214.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1077px) 100vw, 1077px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Digital Scriptorum offers an online union catalog allowing the discovery of pre-modern resources scattered across the world. Thanks to a shared metadata schema, the catalogue allows the searching of all holdings. Both the <a href=\"http:\/\/bancroft.berkeley.edu\/BANC\/digitalscriptorium\/basicsearch.html\">basic search<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/bancroft.berkeley.edu\/BANC\/digitalscriptorium\/advancedsearch.html\">advanced search<\/a> offer refining options in the left-hand-side menu such as Language or Location. Visitors will note that descriptive records include persistent URLs in order to encourage direct citation, and sometimes links to the websites and\/or digital repositories of the materials&#8217; home institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Scriptorum also offers a digital image repository making those pre-modern manuscripts openly accessible to scholars, students, booksellers, collectors, and the general public. Images can be used under certain restrictions which can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/bancroft.berkeley.edu\/digitalscriptorium\/usingimages\/\">Using the Images<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>The website is in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a partnership between approximately forty American Libraries, Museums, and Associations housing collections of manuscripts from the Middle-Ages and Renaissance. A list of participating institutions can be found here. Governance is ensured by an Executive Director, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/digital-scriptorium\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manuscripts-and-rare-books","category-online-resources","category-open-access","category-thematic-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}