Hesburgh Libraries

This talk will outline open and collaborative approaches to primary sources using computer-enabled methodologies. We will demonstrate what can be gained by expanding our notions of who can participate in scholarly activity, and provide concrete examples of how those spaces might be created using digital tools and spaces.

Presented by: Laura Morreale, Independent Scholar/Medieval Francophonie & Italian Historiographies Caterina Agostini, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship and John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values

Laura Morreale is a cultural historian of the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian peninsula whose interests in medieval French-language writing extend to the Latin East. Dr. Morreale is the creator of several digital projects, including the French of Italy and French of Outremer websites and associated web-based studies. She is the Co-PI on the award-winning DALME Project based at Harvard University, and along with Benjamin Albritton of Stanford University Libraries, is the co-founder of the La Sfera and Image du Monde Transcription Challenges and the Transcription Challenge Framework. Laura is the project lead on the Digital Documentation Process, a standardized citation and documentation system for born-digital projects, and a co-editor of Middle Ages for Educators, a Princeton University-based online resource for those wishing to teach and learn about the Middle Ages.

Caterina Agostini is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Notre Dame, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship and John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values. She is a co-Principal Investigator in The Harriot Papers, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her current book manuscript explores scientific narratives and cultural productions in Galileo’s work. Dr. Agostini is co-chair of the International Image Interoperability Framework and the Transcription Challenge Framework.