The Center for Digital Scholarship is pleased to announce the publication of The Minassian Collection of Quranic Manuscripts. The collection, published out of the Brown Digital Repository (BDR), features 200 Quranic manuscript folios dating from the 9th to the 16th centuries. The flowering of Arabic calligraphy has its origins in the efforts of Muslim societies … The Minassian Collection of Quranic Manuscripts
Staff from the Center for Digital Scholarship worked with Professor Susan Smulyans Digital Scholarship class this spring. The website exhibits the 12 resulting student projects (the course syllabus is also available on the website).
A May 23, 2010 article by Jennifer Howard entitled “Hot Type: No Reviews of Digital Scholarship = No Respect” features quotes from Julia Flanders, on the issue of achieving academic recognition for digital projects. Here is the relevant section: Julia Flanders is editor in chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly and director of the Women Writers … Julia Flanders quoted in Chronicle article
