The Manuscriptorium mission
Manuscriptorium seeks to aggregate the old written and documentary heritage (medieval and early modern manuscripts, incunabula, and early printed books until c. 1800) of European civilisation in a united user interface and present it to end users as well as have other sources use it (Manuscriptorium is, for example, a domain aggregator for Europeana). In addition to being an extensive digital library, Manuscriptorium has the ambition to become a virtual research environment for working with historical documents and collections by creating digital tools adapted as modules in a digital network. As a result, user data can be created in the personalised environment of an individual account and published in correlation with the aggregated content (data and metadata). The ultimate goal is the full integration in the digital network environment with the use of data standards, digitised document indexes, and persistent addressing of both complex digital documents (manuscripts, books) and their partial objects (pages) or fragments (page details) where blockchainisation is an inspiration rather than big data.
Manuscriptorium team
Management
Tomáš Klimek
- Historian specialising in medieval history
- Management and coordination of developmental and research tasks
- Collaboration with memory and research institutions
- Coordination of works in creating the digital library content
- User content creation
- GIS implementation
Zdeněk Uhlíř
- Historian of medieval cultural and intellectual history
- Coordinator of the Manuscriptorium content, research, and development
- Digital codicology coordinator
- Comprehensive work on the Manuscriptorium content
Team members
Miroslava Hejnová
- Librarian specialising in library history and early printed books
- Index of Digitized Heritage content administration
- Creation of full-text editions
Adolf Knoll
Michael Lužný
- Historian-philologist specialising in manuscripts and medieval literature
- Coordination of the new Manuscriptorium version development
- User content creation and coordination
- Administration of full-text editions and database of geographic names
- Guidance of interns
Zuzana Macháčová
- Historian specialising in early modern church history
- Revision and enrichment of digital catalogue records
- Creation of virtual exhibitions
Renáta Modráková
- Historian-librarian specialising in manuscripts, palaeography, and history of monastic libraries
- Manuscript processing in the National Library of CR
- TEI Consortium representative
- Promotion and design
Olga Čiperová
- Technical consultant, librarian, bibliologist
- Aggregation management and content administration
- Development of new functionalities
Tomáš Psohlavec
- Technical coordination
- Development of new functionalities
External collaborators
- Lucie Šašková Hřibová
- Klára Šárovcová
Additional collaborators
Richard Aubrecht, Eliška Bínová, Jan Ctibor, Eva Doležalová, Jan Dušek, Jiří Hana, Michal Hlouch, Jan Hrdina, Valerij Chalupník, Martin Konvalinka, Barbora Křivohlavá, Petr Kubín, Pavlína Kuderová Zápotocká, Jindřich Marek, Pavla Marchalová, Jiří Mírovský, Milada Píšková, Stanislav Psohlavec, Václav Novák, Kiril Ribarov, Andrea Svobodová, Barbora Vidová Hladká, Václav Vraný
