This blog post was originally conceived as a contribution to Now You See It Now You Don’t: Sustainable Access in a Digital Age, an event organized by the Bodleian Library and held on Zoom on February 7, 2024. Although my name appears in the list of contributors, I caught the flu that week and wasn’t … The post Collection Sharing as a form of Digital Collections Security appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more

Tumblr was borking so I am posting the show notes over here this week. Hopefully eventually I will be able to move this over to the IMFM Tumblr, but for now, welcome to my blog! In Episode 15 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot chats with Jo Koster about women’s literacy in the later middle … The post IMFM Episode 15: Jo Koster on prayer, manuscript digitization, and women’s literacy in the middle ages appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more

(a few words originally posted on Twitter on March 27, 2023) I’ve been trying all morning to figure out what bothers me about these Mid journey-generated manuscripts without simply sounding like a Luddite, and I think I finally have it. It’s because my interest in manuscripts is almost entirely about the humanity behind them. Who … The post Manuscripts, Humanity, and AI appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more

This is the text of a talk originally presented at the conference Fan Cultures and the Premodern World at Oxford University in July, 2019, organized by Dr. Juliana Dresvina of the Oxford History Faculty. This presentation represents a collaboration between myself and Dr Brandon Hawke of Rhode Island College, and is essentially a summation of our video project Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away  Hi, My name is Dot Porter, and I want to start by thanki ..read more

This is a version of a paper I presented at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds on July 3, 2018, in the session “The Origins, Effects, and Memory of Caroline Minuscule, II” sponsored by the Network for the Study of Caroline Minuscule.  Today I’m going to tell you about UPenn LJS 101, which is the oldest … The post Reading and Writing Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania LJS 101, c. 850–1100 appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more

Presented in the session Materiality of Manuscripts III: The Codex at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK July 5, 2022  Good morning, good afternoon. Thank you to Katarzyna and Kıvılcım for organizing these sessions on Materiality of Manuscripts for IMC 2022. I’m Dot Porter and I’m going to talk about modeling the historical manuscript theory … The post Modelling the Historical Manuscript: Theory and Practice  appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more

Originally presented as the keynote lecture for Bindings Across Physical Formats and Digital Spaces, organized by the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, June 2021. This is an expansion of the work described in my blog post Books of Hours as Transformative Works posted in November … The post (More) Books of Hours as Transformative Works appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more

Presented by Dr Brandon Hawk and Dot Porter at Books on Screen: A Virtual Symposium, University of Leeds and Anglia Ruskin University, November 3, 2021 With the premier of Star Wars, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, fans saw the first glimpses of books in the beloved galaxy far, far away. Although text technologies had been … The post Aionomica, Rammahgon, and De sphaera mundi: Bibliographic Medievalism in Star Wars appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more

Originally presented at the 14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, November 17, 2021 Thank you for that kind and generous introduction and thanks to Lynn for inviting me to present this talk today. Thank you to all of you this afternoon, or this evening for those of you in Europe, … The post Manuscript Loss in Digital Contexts appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more

I recorded this brief presentation in September 2021, as part of “the digital medieval manuscript: an expert meeting,” organized by Kathryn Rudy at the University of Saint Andrews and held virtually on October 8, 2021. Abstract: In March of 2020, an exhibition of medieval manuscripts I curated was installed at the Free Library of Philadelphia. … The post From Another Point of View: Exhibiting Manuscripts Online and in Person appeared first on Dot Porter Digital ..read more