The Present and Future of Digital Manuscripts: Access, Pedagogy, Scholarship (2 Day Event)

—a conference organized by Rebecca Fenning Marschall, Clark Library, UCLA, and Philip S. Palmer, Clark Library, UCLA

Why do we need digitized manuscripts and how might we improve user access to them? How might collaborative infrastructure, discovery platforms, and linked data make it easier to find, view, and connect digitized manuscripts? How can special collections libraries partner with scholars, students, and the general public to enhance metadata and transcriptions of digitized manuscripts? As the culminating event of the Clark’s project to digitize its early modern English bound manuscripts (funded by the CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections program), the conference will introduce new resources while fostering collaborative discussion about the future of digital manuscripts.

Speakers
Benjamin Albritton, Stanford University
Paul Dingman, Folger Shakespeare Library
Joshua Eckhardt, Virginia Commonwealth University
Alan Galey, University of Toronto
Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University
Laura Mandell, Texas A & M University
Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Margaret Simon, North Carolina State University
Amy Tigner, University of Texas at Arlington
Heather Wacha, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library