How to describe pre-modern books (theory of bibliographic description) by Megan Piorko
Channel: LaTeX Ninjaing & Digital Humanities / Sarah Lang
Date: 2023-06-12

This video is part of the project "Digitizing the Materiality of the Premodern Book" ( https://dha.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/de/digitizing-materiality-premodern-book ) and licensed Creative Commons BY NC SA. This project (2022-2023) is funded by CLARIAH-AT with the support of BMBWF. 

The foundational skills at the intersection of digitization, bibliography, and the Digital Humanities are crucial for many scholars, yet instruction frequently only covers one maybe two of these intersecting aspects. 
For example, use of the Text Encoding Initiative XML standard is increasingly the norm in digital scholarly editing, but many individuals working with textual materials do not have access to relevant scholarly training in DH. Conversely, many DH departments, lack rare book specialists. 

The goal of this workshop was to create one succinct class where students will learn the necessary skills for understanding how the materiality of pre-modern books can be digitized and provide a foundation for putting those skills into practice. After attending this workshop, students will understand the fundamentals of digitization and how books and manuscripts are described in the TEI, including the msdescription and transcription modules. The workshop as an in-person event was used to create the materials which were made into this video class for self-study.

Dr. Megan Piorko is a historian of the book & was named Pantzer New Scholar of the Bibliographical Society of America (2019).
This video was produced by Moving Stills ( https://www.moving-stills.com/ ).