Digital Scriptorium
@digitalscriptorium.bsky.social
Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org
A DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! (aka "DS Jeopardy")
Which former owner's previous holdings are represented by the subject and genre terms used to describe items in member institution collections depicted in this visualization?
If you can decode a SPARQL query, this might help: tinyurl.com/25dqjf3e
Which former owner's previous holdings are represented by the subject and genre terms used to describe items in member institution collections depicted in this visualization?
If you can decode a SPARQL query, this might help: tinyurl.com/25dqjf3e
April 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! (aka "DS Jeopardy")
Which former owner's previous holdings are represented by the subject and genre terms used to describe items in member institution collections depicted in this visualization?
If you can decode a SPARQL query, this might help: tinyurl.com/25dqjf3e
Which former owner's previous holdings are represented by the subject and genre terms used to describe items in member institution collections depicted in this visualization?
If you can decode a SPARQL query, this might help: tinyurl.com/25dqjf3e
Drawing on the expertise of Dr. Evyn Kropf from our DS Advisory Council, our Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social blogs about new descriptions of three Islamic manuscripts owned by the California State Library soon making their way into the DS Catalog. digital-scriptorium.org/20250327-csl...
March 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Drawing on the expertise of Dr. Evyn Kropf from our DS Advisory Council, our Graduate Fellow @rosemccandless.bsky.social blogs about new descriptions of three Islamic manuscripts owned by the California State Library soon making their way into the DS Catalog. digital-scriptorium.org/20250327-csl...
Did you know one of the most significant manuscript witnesses to the Canterbury Tales is in the DS Catalog? search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS9601
The "Ellesmere Chaucer" is so precious that it does not circulate, making DS an easy digital access point to view this piece of history!
The "Ellesmere Chaucer" is so precious that it does not circulate, making DS an easy digital access point to view this piece of history!
March 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Did you know one of the most significant manuscript witnesses to the Canterbury Tales is in the DS Catalog? search.digital-scriptorium.org/catalog/DS9601
The "Ellesmere Chaucer" is so precious that it does not circulate, making DS an easy digital access point to view this piece of history!
The "Ellesmere Chaucer" is so precious that it does not circulate, making DS an easy digital access point to view this piece of history!
And this visualization shows the flip side: languages in the DS Catalog and the materials used as writing surfaces in each of those linguistic traditions: tinyurl.com/2a2xgs22
March 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
And this visualization shows the flip side: languages in the DS Catalog and the materials used as writing surfaces in each of those linguistic traditions: tinyurl.com/2a2xgs22
Interested in seeing the correlation between linguistic tradition and manuscript material in the DS Catalog?
This tree map visualization shows which languages can be found on particular writing surfaces in DS member collections.
For the SPARQL query, follow this link: tinyurl.com/2cxmypq6
This tree map visualization shows which languages can be found on particular writing surfaces in DS member collections.
For the SPARQL query, follow this link: tinyurl.com/2cxmypq6
March 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Interested in seeing the correlation between linguistic tradition and manuscript material in the DS Catalog?
This tree map visualization shows which languages can be found on particular writing surfaces in DS member collections.
For the SPARQL query, follow this link: tinyurl.com/2cxmypq6
This tree map visualization shows which languages can be found on particular writing surfaces in DS member collections.
For the SPARQL query, follow this link: tinyurl.com/2cxmypq6
New to the blog: What is a DS ID and how are manuscripts represented in the DS Catalog? digital-scriptorium.org/20250318-ide...
And check out our previous blog posts here: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/
And check out our previous blog posts here: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/
March 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New to the blog: What is a DS ID and how are manuscripts represented in the DS Catalog? digital-scriptorium.org/20250318-ide...
And check out our previous blog posts here: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/
And check out our previous blog posts here: digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/
Did you know that the DS Catalog is powered by Wikibase technology? This is the same Linked Open Data software that Wikidata, one of the world’s largest open knowledge bases, runs on.
You can even explore the "backend" Wikibase of the DS Catalog infrastructure: catalog.digital-scriptorium.org
You can even explore the "backend" Wikibase of the DS Catalog infrastructure: catalog.digital-scriptorium.org
March 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Did you know that the DS Catalog is powered by Wikibase technology? This is the same Linked Open Data software that Wikidata, one of the world’s largest open knowledge bases, runs on.
You can even explore the "backend" Wikibase of the DS Catalog infrastructure: catalog.digital-scriptorium.org
You can even explore the "backend" Wikibase of the DS Catalog infrastructure: catalog.digital-scriptorium.org
Time for a DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! (or "DS Jeopardy" as @lransom.bsky.social likes to call it!)
Here's a simple visualization from our DS Wikibase Query Service. Which author in our DS data would produce the solution shown here?
Hint: if you can read SPARQL, the query is here: tinyurl.com/2ybjm9ge
Here's a simple visualization from our DS Wikibase Query Service. Which author in our DS data would produce the solution shown here?
Hint: if you can read SPARQL, the query is here: tinyurl.com/2ybjm9ge
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Time for a DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! (or "DS Jeopardy" as @lransom.bsky.social likes to call it!)
Here's a simple visualization from our DS Wikibase Query Service. Which author in our DS data would produce the solution shown here?
Hint: if you can read SPARQL, the query is here: tinyurl.com/2ybjm9ge
Here's a simple visualization from our DS Wikibase Query Service. Which author in our DS data would produce the solution shown here?
Hint: if you can read SPARQL, the query is here: tinyurl.com/2ybjm9ge
On our blog: our DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow, @rosemccandless.bsky.social, investigates a medieval binding fragment as part of her work providing descriptive metadata services to member institutions.
digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...
digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...
February 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
On our blog: our DS Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow, @rosemccandless.bsky.social, investigates a medieval binding fragment as part of her work providing descriptive metadata services to member institutions.
digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...
digital-scriptorium.org/about/blog/2...
One of our most frequently viewed DS records is for Boston Public Library, MS f Med.101. This ms containing Christine de Pisan's Le livre des trois Vertus was copied in 1405, and is generally considered to be "the truest copy of the text, possibly created under the direction of the author herself."
February 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
One of our most frequently viewed DS records is for Boston Public Library, MS f Med.101. This ms containing Christine de Pisan's Le livre des trois Vertus was copied in 1405, and is generally considered to be "the truest copy of the text, possibly created under the direction of the author herself."
The DS Catalog is constantly growing with new data and expanded holdings from global manuscript traditions.
Check out this visualization of languages of manuscript texts in DS member collections. Although Latin predominates, many other linguistic traditions are represented.
Check out this visualization of languages of manuscript texts in DS member collections. Although Latin predominates, many other linguistic traditions are represented.
February 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The DS Catalog is constantly growing with new data and expanded holdings from global manuscript traditions.
Check out this visualization of languages of manuscript texts in DS member collections. Although Latin predominates, many other linguistic traditions are represented.
Check out this visualization of languages of manuscript texts in DS member collections. Although Latin predominates, many other linguistic traditions are represented.
Introducing a DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! Here's a visualization that comes directly from our DS Catalog data using a Wikibase Query Service. Can you guess what these results might be showing?
Hint: Below is a link to the original SPARQL query you can run to help you figure it out!
tinyurl.com/2xm4c6uz
Hint: Below is a link to the original SPARQL query you can run to help you figure it out!
tinyurl.com/2xm4c6uz
February 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Introducing a DS SPARQL Viz Quiz! Here's a visualization that comes directly from our DS Catalog data using a Wikibase Query Service. Can you guess what these results might be showing?
Hint: Below is a link to the original SPARQL query you can run to help you figure it out!
tinyurl.com/2xm4c6uz
Hint: Below is a link to the original SPARQL query you can run to help you figure it out!
tinyurl.com/2xm4c6uz