Welcome to my Humanities Commons Website!

I am a graduate student at Carleton University working towards a Master’s of History. For my thesis project, I intend to create a digital edition for CU’s Archives and Research Collection’s Ms. 1 (circa 1450 Iberian liturgical chant manuscript). This will include a TEI encoded transcription, paleographical study, a visualisation of its gathering structure (Viscoll), Cantus identification of chants, high resolution facsimile (with Mirador & IIIF), as well as a descriptive catalogue.
My intention is to have put our efforts to digitise the manuscript book to use as an interactive online tool and edition. My hope in keeping this record (which I aspire to update by-weekly) is that fellow digital humanists may see what goes into a digital edition project and how it far exceeds the capabilities of a paper edition. In doing this, I hope to promote the various tools and standards that have been developed by the wonderful digital humanists active in the field today and inspire small institutions or independent researchers to undertake similar challenges themselves, so that more premodern texts may become accessible to the public and to researchers online.