Collections Housed at the Keats-Shelley House: A Digital Translation

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article aims to illustrate the process behind the building of the KSH digital collections webpage by highlighting the research endeavour carried out by cataloguers and digital curators. It also demonstrates the importance and complexity of the mediating interaction with IT developers in the effort of mapping descriptions and content into conventional frameworks, in compliance with cataloguing and metadata standards and best practices such as MARC, MODS and controlled vocabularies. The influence and relevance of the cultural networks emerging from the holdings preserved in the KSH is one of the distinct features of this extraordinary and unique collection composed of heterogeneous materials. The research potential embedded in manuscripts, artworks and objects translated into digital bits is therefore offered to broader audiences and opens up new ways of interpretation by paving the way to citizenship projects, object-based sessions, virtual and augmented reality outputs.