Digitizing the Materiality of the Premodern Book (School and Videos)
This winter school introduces the digitisation of manuscripts and rare books, with a focus on materiality, bibliography, and TEI-based description.
Instructor: Sean Winslow, Sarah Lang et al.
Course Overview
The school was designed as an introduction to basic digitisation, bibliography, and Digital Humanities methods. It introduced participants to the challenges of representing the material features of manuscripts and early printed books in digital form, combining perspectives from rare book studies, scholarly editing, and data modelling.
Participants learned the fundamentals of digitisation workflows as well as the description of manuscripts and books using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), including the manuscript description and transcription modules. The school provided a practical foundation for scholars seeking to integrate material bibliography and digital methods in their research.
This winter school was co-organised by Sarah Lang, Sean Winslow, and colleagues as part of the CLARIAH-AT project Digitizing the Materiality of the Premodern Book (2022–2023). The in-person school served as the basis for an openly available video course for self-study.