Manuscripts on Microfilm

A Dumbarton Oaks production!

• Tags

  "Byzantine education" A-D strips acetate at-risk film Athos base blemishes brittle buckling call number call numbers channeling cities city cold storage condition database deterioration digitizing discolored tape emulsion fields FileMaker film bases fun! Greek numbers hours How do I institution istanbul labels layer lead leader Manuscript Finds map marginalia measles metadata microspots Monks are the best naming nitrate online resources orthography Paris gr. 1267 Parisinus gr. 1267 pay period person polarizing polyester preservation printing processing project update proper name provenance redox rights Sinai splicer splicing tape tears timesheets troubleshooting VIAF warping weather report Westerink workflow Zotero Ševčenko δίγαμμα ελληνικοί αριθμοί

• quick links

  • “Dessins Naïfs”: Artwork from Istanbul, Patriarchate Library, Panaghia 26
  • “They made me a monk and called me Ignatios…”
  • Latin in Greek and Greek in Latin: Some Bilingual and Transliterated Texts in the Sinai Collection
  • Ϡ + (β · Ϟ) = ͵αξʹ
  • Week 7 Round Up: From Paris with Love
  • 1000th microfilm processed!
  • Week #6, 2012
  • Week #5, 2012
  • Week #4, 2012
  • Week #3, 2012
  • Ὁ Μεγαλέξαντρος Ζεῖ καὶ Βασιλεύει… στὰ Βάθη τῆς Ἀσίας
  • Week #1, 2012
  • Step Aside, the (nineteenth-century German) Expert is Here!
  • Coming soon…
  • Friday tasks
  • Workflow 2012
  • Closed for the season
  • 500th microfilm processed!
  • Troubleshooting: database is not assigning complete call number for label
  • Before & After
  • Our Dream Team
  • Ἀρχὴ σὺν Θεῷ: Two Mediæval Greek Poems on Learning
  • Le bon temps viendra.
  • Monastic Photobombs
  • Troubleshooting: printing labels loses text along margins
  • Troubleshooting: database automatically assigned wrong call number?
  • Week 4: June 27-July 1
  • Getting to Zographou in the twelfth century
  • Mount Athos on 60 Minutes
  • CERL online provenance resource
  • Week 3: June 20-24
  • Week 2: June 13-17
  • Χιονόπτωση στὸ Μοναστήρι τῶν Γεωργιανῶν
  • My first week on the project
  • Map
  • count per city
  • Week 1: June 6-10
  • ZOTERO: basic instruction & installation
  • Ihor Ševčenko collection
  • making labels and boxes
  • HELP. I’ve never used a blog before.
  • Basics of FileMaker
  • Workflow – proposed 2011
  • Timesheets – summer 2012
  • Images of base film shrinkage (buckling or channeling)
  • Images of redox
  • “Genre”
  • Call numbers for microfilm
  • Pinakes: Textes et manuscrits grecs database
  • Why FileMaker?
  • using A-D strips
  • The splicer looks a lot like this:
  • Institutions organized by country
  • “Condition of microfilm” field – appropriate terms
  • Goals for the project
  • Why aren’t we…?
  • base vs. emulsion layers on microfilm
  • splicing and adding film leader
  • repairing small tears in film
  • deteriorating tape
  • acetate vs. polyester film bases
  • How do I… decide what to call a person?
  • We have a Zotero group
  • Welcome!

• Blogroll

  • Dumbarton Oaks Interns
  • Dumbarton Oaks Library
  • Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
  • Image Permanence Institute
  • Paleografia Greca
  • Pinakes: Textes et Manuscrits Grecs
  • Weissman Preservation Center – report on acetate film