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MESA Launches!
We are pleased to announce that MESA is live: https://mesa-medieval.org Read about MESA, click through to the Advanced Search, create an account, add some tags, join in (or start) a discussion! Many thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for funding, to the MESA Steering Committee for steering us through the implementation process, to our […]
MESA Required and Recommended Fields
This post lists all MESA fields, required and not required, and describes their format and purpose in the system. This list should be useful for those interested in having their projects included in the MESA federation. Required Fields CUSTOM NAMESPACE CUSTOM NAMESPACE actually consists of two parts – the Custom namespace and rdf:about Custom namespace […]
Workshop at Kzoo
MESA is sponsoring a workshop, led by Dot Porter and Tim Stinson, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. The workshop is scheduled for Friday, May 10, 10am, Waldo Library Classroom A. This room is a computer lab. No registration is required, just come if you are interested in learning more about […]
MESA is now on Facebook
MESA has gone social! Like us on Facebook.
While we are waiting…
The MESA team is hard at work indexing the first sets of metadata into the system! The first set includes manuscripts from e-Codices, Parker on the Web, and the Walters Art Museum, plus publications from the medieval collections from InteLex (including the works of Peter Abelard, Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and others). By the time […]
Converting into RDF, and full-text indexing
I’d like to provide a bit more detail regarding two important elements of MESA: the resources available to assist projects in converting their metadata into the MESA-specified RDF, and information on indexing full-text to be included for searching in MESA. Converting into RDF In addition to the XSLT example files on the Collex wiki, Jeffrey […]
MESA metadata guidelines now available
The requirements for metadata, intended for projects federated by MESA, are now available on the ARC wiki. ARC is Advanced Research Consortium, the umbrella organization for MESA and sister “nodes” NINES, 18thConnect, REKn, and ModNets. Metadata in MESA, as in the other ARC nodes, is based on a series of fields, represented in a standard […]
Welcome to MESA blog!
Today was our PR blitz, so I hope that will draw some folks to see the MESA blog. Please read About MESA and take a look at our FAQ. If you have questions that aren’t answered there, leave a comment and we’ll do our best to answer. Although we have our initial twelve resources to […]
MESA has been funded!
We are very pleased to announce that, following a one-year planning grant, the Mellon Foundation has awarded the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance a three-year implementation grant. MESA serves two related purposes: to develop a federation of digital medieval resources, and to provide recommendations for technological and scholarly standards for electronic scholarship in all areas of […]
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