Dear all, We are about to update the DMMapp. Since we know that quite some users count on the DMMapp to help them in their courses and studies, we find it important to communicate some updates that we have lined up, and what disruptions can be expected. What is going to change?
So, late on schedule we are upgrading the DMMapp; as we have been posting in the past weeks, we are off to a new server and to HTTPS. The process started a couple of hours ago this Tuesday morning and now we are waiting for the Internet to take notice of the changes. We are also signaling all the services that we would like the website always to load over HTTPS rather than the less secure HTTP. In the meanwhile, you will most possibly see a error page instead of the DMMapp. This is normal and expected. It will take from 24 to 48 hours until everything will be back to normal and the DMMapp will be usable again. This will vary per region. Some areas in the world will be able to access the DMMapp earlier than others; we have no power over this. As always, all the DMMapp data is always accessible via GitHub. If you are desperatly searching for a resource or some manuscripts from a specific library: check and search our code! We are sorry for the inconvenience, but it is something that is essential for this project! Thank you for your understanding, and see you on the HTTPS side!
Every year we go through the links in the DMMapp, knowing that unavoidably we will encounter broken links: links that once worked and lead to beautiful digitized manuscripts and that now are simply gone. pouf - no more.
Yep, we will be speaking again! If you are in Ghent, Belgium, on Saturday 9 September, you should come by the following conference:
Yep! It involves, as always, code, data, and obviously, digitized medieval manuscripts :) Stay tuned as we develop the idea and release it into the wild. Soon. We have also started doing some interesting research on the world of digitized material, its current status, and what could be done to improve the world of manuscripts. It's very dry and boring material at the moment, but we are going to spice it up for the blog at a letter stage. Speaking of research: we have started putting together the material for our presentation next month in Belgium. Interesting stuff in our opinion! As always, once we are done, you will be able to read and download everything from sexycodicology.net! See you there.
We have been working a bit in the shadows lately, and we thought it might be interesting to share what we have been up to! There are news concerning both the DMMapp, the Sexy Codicology Blog. Let's go with order:
We have been working a bit in the shadows lately, and we thought it might be useful to share what we have been up to! Let's start from the DMMapp.
We are rewriting and improving some of our pages. The first one to be edited was the "Codicology" page that we have linked here. It's not perfect yet: it misses some content, and the style is a bit wonky... But we'll keep working on it! Once that is done, we'll move to other cornerstone pages on the Sexy Codicology website. We have also started using MLA citation format for our references on our posts. Although this will very often link to locked journals, and many readers will not be able to read the full texts, we find it important to cite our sources whenever we write these pages. Students, researchers, or enthusiasts can then find the texts we use and gain access via their university or library. We'll do our best find OA alternatives to link to. The aim is to have citations site-wide: pages and blog posts, Over time, all our content will be properly referenced. Like it should have been from the beginning, but we lacked the proper tools (and knowledge!) to do so :)
We have received another four new links to digitized manuscripts and we have added them to the DMMapp! This time around, the resources come from Slovenia, the US, and France. Let’s give a look!
We have added four new links on the the DMMapp: Digital Library of Slovenia - dLib.si New York Academy of Medicine Manuscrits numérisés de la bibliothèque d'étude de Verdun Centre Culturel Irlandais - Irish College in Paris They are all awesome and home to some extremely interesting manuscripts. Post coming up soon on the Sexy Codicology blog!