CSE Senior Design Proposal
Repertorium Chronicarum
https://slides.com/julieshedd/chronica-cse
About the project
"The Repertorium Chronicarum is the first attempt to record in a single reference work the location of every known manuscript of every known Latin chronicle of the Middle Ages. The Repertorium is intended to assist scholars in rapidly surveying the genre of medieval chronicles to determine which texts are relevant to their own work, and then in finding their way to the manuscript sources of particular chronicles."
"Included are all Latin narratives of public (national, civic, political, military, corporate, ecclesiastical) events: chronicles, annals, histories, chronologies, notes on events; and the implied narratives of such events: catalogues of popes, emperors, and kings, and genealogies of emperors and kings."
- Joint project of retired professor Dr. Dan Embree and Polish Academy of Sciences researcher Jacek Soszynski
- Hosted by MSU Libraries for over 12 years
Proposed Enhancements
- Rebuild database, making it easier to browse and search
- Include admin UI so project heads can make updates themselves
- Include ways for other scholars to contribute to the bibliography, including location submissions, transcriptions, etc.
- Include links to digitized items, library/archive websites
- Include maps, possibly visualizations
- Display "special characters" correctly and consistently
Optional / "Bonus points"
- Capacity for localization / translation
Technical Requirements
- Drupal 8
- User-facing website compliant with MSU visual identity standards (but with its own unique look)
- Simple and clear admin UI for location database
- Compliance with WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility standards
- Extensive, layperson-readable documentation
Similar Digital Humanities Projects
- Digital Scriptorium
http://www.digital-scriptorium.org/
- Perseus Digital Library
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
- Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
http://www.pbe.kcl.ac.uk/index.html
- Mapping the Republic of Letters
http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
- Global Currents
https://globalcurrents.stanford.edu/publications
- Travelers on the Grand Tour
http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/casestudies/grandtour.html
Questions/Suggestions/Support
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Julie Shedd, Coordinator of Digital Initiatives and Web Services
jshedd@library.msstate.edu
- Brock Balducci and Chris Eady, Web Developers
bbalducci@library.msstate.edu | ceady@library.msstate.edu
- Troy DeRego, User Experience Specialist
tderego@library.msstate.edu
CSE Senior Design Proposal
By Julie Shedd
