David Reynolds
Manager of Scholarly Digital Initiatives
The Johns Hopkins University
Nadia R. Altschul
Coordinator for Scholarly Contributions, Roman de la Rose Digital Library
The Johns Hopkins University
The Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University recently launched the Roman de la Rose Digital Library to provide scholars a platform for exploring one of the most important Medieval French allegories. Building on the success of the previous Roman de la Rose Website, the new Library offers an unprecedented opportunity to interact with these rich treasures with additional content, a new design, and enhanced functionality. More importantly, it represents a major shift from viewing digitized manuscripts as surrogates toward a data-centric view. This project briefing will highlight the importance of the Library to scholars in multiple disciplines and it will include a discussion of some of the implications of the technological decisions.
