Revision of The St Alban's Psalter: on the Web from Tue, 09/12/2008 - 21:44
Grant Holder:
To digitise the St Albans Psalter and place it on the web. The images are accompanied by complete transcription, translation (Latin into both English and German). Each image has a page-by-page commentary, and the manuscript is amplified by about 40,000 words of accompanying essays.
Aims: to make the psalter available in colour.
Research questions: to understand how the manuscript was made, when, for whom, and why the range of images were chosen.
Wider research context: this manuscript is the finest example of English Romanesque painting, kept outside Britain (in Germany). In terms of artistic style it set a fashion for decades in England. It contains one of the earliest examples of Frech literature, seldom examined within its codicological context.
Production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF files for web dissemination
| Project start date: 2001-01 | Project end date: 2003-03 |
Subject domains:
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| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Image enhancement | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - referential | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Manual input and transcription | Data capture |
| Image restoration | Data structuring and enhancement |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Still Image/Graphics
Software tools used:
Javascript, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver
Source material used:
Source: one manuscript, c400 pages, full of illuminations, stored in Dombibliothek, Hildesheim, Germany. The digital resource is a set of .tiff files.
Digital resource created:
A web site, containing the full digital version of the St Albans Psalter, transcription and translation, plus commentary, and essays, in English and German
Data Formats created:
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Microsoft Word Document (DOC), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, simple (DC)
Publications:
Geddes, Jane, ' The St Albans Psalter: the Abbot and the Anchoress', in H.Leyser and S.Fanous, Christina of Markyate, Routledge, 2004
Geddes, Jane, The St Albans Psalter: a book for Christina of Markyate, British Library, forthcoming 2005; and also German translation published by Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg, 2005
forthcoming 2007, I understand that the AHRB digital photos are to be used for a complete facsimle of the book, to be published in Germany.
Geddes, Jane, The St Albans Psalter: a book for Christina of Markyate, British Library, forthcoming 2005; and also German translation published by Schnell und Steiner, Regensburg, 2005
forthcoming 2007, I understand that the AHRB digital photos are to be used for a complete facsimle of the book, to be published in Germany.
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Jane Geddes |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Jane Geddes |
| Title | The St Alban's Psalter: on the Web |
| Record created | 2005-11-07 |
| Record updated | 2011-01-14 16:48 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2143 |
| Citation of record | Jane Geddes: The St Alban's Psalter: on the Web. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2143> created: 2005-11-07, last updated 2011-01-14 16:48 |