Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:10:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [67.132.11.103] (HELO [192.100.21.10]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 55978867 for cni-announce@cni.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:59:31 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:59:39 -0800 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: Roman de la Rose Digital Library Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-985530435==_ma============" --============_-985530435==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I wanted to share this announcement from Johns=20 Hopkins with the CNI-announce readership. This is=20 a pioneering digital humanities project that for=20 me suggests some fascinating new kinds of=20 research questions dealing with the study of=20 larger numbers of versions or variations of a=20 work, or a genre than was feasible in a world of=20 physical artifacts. I think we'll see this theme=20 of managing a new abundance of evidence appear in=20 a number of digital humanities programs in the=20 near future. There will be a session on the Rose project at the Fall CNI meeting. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI ------------------------ The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins=20 University and the Biblioth=E8que nationale de=20 =46rance are pleased to announce the Roman de la=20 Rose Digital Library available at=20 http://romandelarose.org. The creation of this resource and the=20 digitization of the manuscripts from the=20 Biblioth=E8que nationale de France was made=20 possible through generous support from the Andrew=20 W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of the Roman de la=20 Rose Digital Library is to create a digital=20 library of all extant manuscript copies of the=20 Roman de la Rose, of which at least 270 are known=20 to exist. We expect to have full digital=20 surrogates of about 150 of these manuscripts=20 available here by the end of 2009. This Library=20 features new content and enhanced functionality,=20 and builds upon the previously developed=20 prototype Roman de la Rose: Digital Surrogates of=20 Medieval Manuscripts. There is an associated=20 blog available at=20 http://romandelarose.blogspot.com The Rose team welcomes feedback and comments.=20 You can email us=20 at contactus@romandelarose.org=20 or post comments to the Rose blog. Regards, Sayeed Sayeed Choudhury Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center Sheridan Libraries Director of Operations, Institute for Data=20 Intensive Engineering and Sciences (IDIES) Johns Hopkins University sayeed@jhu.edu --============_-985530435==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Roman de la Rose Digital Library
I wanted to share this announcement from Johns Hopkins with the CNI-announce readership. This is a pioneering digital humanities project that for me suggests some fascinating new kinds of research questions dealing with the study of larger numbers of versions or variations of a work, or a genre than was feasible in a world of physical artifacts. I think we'll see this theme of managing a new abundance of evidence appear in a number of digital humanities programs in the near future.

There will be a session on the Rose project at the Fall CNI meeting.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University and the Biblioth=E8que nationale de France are pleased to announce the Roman de la Rose Digital Library available at http://romandelarose.org. 

The creation of this resource and the digitization of the manuscripts from the Biblioth=E8que nationale de France was made possible through generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of the Roman de la Rose Digital Library is to create a digital library of all extant manuscript copies of the Roman de la Rose, of which at least 270 are known to exist. We expect to have full digital surrogates of about 150 of these manuscripts available here by the end of 2009.  This Library features new content and enhanced functionality, and builds upon the previously developed prototype Roman de la Rose: Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts.  There is an associated blog available at http://romandelarose.blogspot.com

The Rose team welcomes feedback and comments.  You can email us at contactus@romandelarose.org or post comments to the Rose blog.

Regards,

Sayeed


Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs
Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center 
Sheridan Libraries
Director of Operations, Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Sciences (IDIES)
Johns Hopkins University
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