An Experimental Online Collaboration and Publication Tool for Scholars

Room: Cairo
Digital Mellini, an experimental online collaboration
and publication tool for scholars, was
created in a collaboration between librarians,
scholars, and web technologists at the Getty
and the University of Malaga in Spain.
On the site, scholars compare manuscript
pages of a 17th-century paintings inventory with
transcriptions and translations, make connections
to paintings, and annotate the texts. By sharing
their annotations with others, scholars engage
in critical discussion within the text itself. The
intention is to create a space for scholars to
collaborate online together, and then produce
an online publication from the results of the
collaboration.