Results

Peer-Reviewed Research and Publications / Findings

Overview

The Deciphering Projects publishes peer-reviewed research and findings on:

  • the effectiveness of digital education and paleographic pedagogy,
  • developing and organizing digital repositories that house manuscripts and transcriptions, and
  • fundamental historical research on medieval inter-religious life as revealed from our citizen scientists’ review of manuscripts.
  • In particular, our research findings speak to the efficacy of citizen science projects and the humanistic value of engaging the public in scholarly research.

Conference Presentation on Deciphering Secrets

Medieval Spanish Manuscripts, Modern Digital Repositories: The future of scholarly-curated thematic collections supported via public engagement. Dark Archives 20/20 Conference: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature 8-10, 2020

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Martínez-Dávila, Roger Louis; Perrone, Sean; Serrano-Nebras, Francisco Garcia; and Martin de Vidales Garcia, Maria (2018) “Deciphering Secrets of Medieval Cathedrals: Crowdsourced Manuscript Transcriptions and Modern Digital Editions,” Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 43: Iss. 1, Article 2.

Martínez-Dávila, Roger Louis, 2020. “The Space Between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: MOOCs, Citizen Science, and Digital Manuscript Collections.” Proceedings of Dark Archives Conference 2019, Medium Ævum Journal. (forthcoming)