by The Vatican Film Library announces the launch of its new crowd-sourced metadata website for pre-modern manuscripts of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana — METAscripta. Descriptive information about manuscripts (such as the date or place of their production, the language and script in which they are written, the types and style of illumination with which they are decorated, and especially the texts they contain) is essential for researchers to identify materials in which they are interested. This Digital Humanities project provides online access to the microfilmed copies of Vatican Library manuscripts from the Vatican Film Library collections and allows people to contribute descriptive metadata about these manuscripts and the texts they contain. METAscripta takes advantage of the distributed expertise of researchers from around the world and will create a powerful tool for discovering the rich manuscript resources of the Vatican Library.
Tour METAscripta through this video. This project will be presented at the 13th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. For more information about METAscripta, contact the project director Debra Taylor Cashion.
