DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic

Sunday, May 5, 2013

DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic

[First posted in AWOL 28 April 2012. Updated 5 May 2013]

DigiPal: Digital Resource and Database for Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Diplomatic

DigiPal is a new resource for the study of medieval handwriting, particularly that produced in England during the years 1000–1100, the time of Æthelred, Cnut and William the Conqueror. It currently has about 300 images of manuscript pages and over 12,000 images of individual letters. Funded by the EU FP7, it is based at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
Please note that this site is in development and is still incomplete in terms of content and functionality.
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AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University

AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.

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