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

http://www.chronica.msstate.edu/

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

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