Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased to announce “Giving Voice to Ancient Texts: Digital Preservation and Access for Endangered Manuscripts from Threatened Communities,” a presentation by Columba Stewart, OSB, Executive Director, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML), on February 15, 2017, at the University of Maryland. The presentation is part of the Roshan Institute Lecture Series at UMD Roshan Institute for Persian Studies.
In this presentation, Columba Stewart, a graduate of Harvard, Yale and Oxford universities, will explain how a Benedictine monastery in Minnesota became involved in such a massive effort to document cultural heritage; describe the challenges of data management and workflow; and present HMML’s online environment for manuscript studies, virtual Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (vHMML), which includes a Reading Room that will ultimately offer almost 100,000 complete digitized manuscripts to scholars around the world. HMML is now partnering with the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at UMD on projects to digitize, describe, and share Persian manuscripts endangered by conflict and environmental challenges.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 | 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Conference Room, Hornbake Library #0301 | University of Maryland College Park