Finding Medieval Manuscripts
Discovery and Citation in the Digital Era
Judith Pearce
Abstract
To establish connections between medieval manuscripts in the nineteen-eighties without visiting the holding institution, researchers were dependent on printed catalogues, the secondary literature and facsimiles and microform reproductions. This paper reviews the changes that the Internet has made to the way research is conducted in this area. It focuses on projects currently underway to build union catalogues and image databases of medieval manuscripts, the architectures and data standards under consideration and issues still to be resolved before the vision of a global union catalogue can be achieved.
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