Medieval and Renaissance Studies

CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) is a research collaboration aimed at integrating digital archives and resources for research on medieval and modern European history.

Collex is an open-source collections and exhibits-builder designed to aid humanities scholars working in digital collections or within federated research environments. Collex facilitates the collection, tagging, analysis and annotation of trusted objects (digital texts and images vetted for scholarly integrity). Without any special technical training, users can produce and share interlinked online exhibits using a flexible and professional design template.

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. It was established in 2003 to help scholars meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects. Digital Medievalist publishes an open access journal, sponsors conference sessions, runs an email discussion list and encourages best practice in digital medieval resource creation.

Juxta is a cross-platform tool for collating, comparing, and analyzing any kind or number of textual objects. The tool can set any textual witness as the base text and can filter white space and/or punctuation.

It has several kinds of visualizations, including a heat map of textual differences and a histogram that can expose the filtering results. When collations are being executed, Juxta keys textual transcriptions to the digital images that may stand behind the transcriptions as their documentary base.

MARGOT is a long-term research project devoted to publishing fully searchable editions of either generally inaccessible texts from the French Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (the Ancien Régime) or of texts in connection with a specific project from the same time period. All text are in XML using tags derived from TEI.

From the introduction, "The Beauvais Missal is one of the best-known victims of mid-twentieth-century American biblioclasm, serving as a perfect example of just how great a loss is incurred when a codex is dismembered and its leaves scattered." This exhibit features the digitized leaves tracked by the author.

Examples of projects based on social network analysis. Also includes links to tools and resources for this method of analysis of social and historical networks.

The St Chad Gospels (formerly known as the Lichfield Gospels, and sometimes still known as the St Teilo Gospels) is an eighth century Gospel Book housed in Lichfield Cathedral. This project features historical image overlays (photographs taken of the manuscript at various points in time), an interactive 3D gallery of images of 16 of the most significant pages of the manuscript, a multispectral visualization of page 141 and the searchable transcript of the text.

Stemmaweb is a set of tools that has grown out of the Tree of Texts, a CREA ("creative research") project funded by the KU Leuven. The tools were developed variously within the project, on behalf of the project by Shadowcat Systems, and in collaboration with the Interedition project. The source code for all tools and associated libraries is available on Github. All tools are free for scholarly and nonprofit use and adaptation.