Key research themes
1. How are digital archival manuscripts preserved and accessed as reliable research sources?
This theme investigates the transformation of archival manuscripts into digital formats, focusing on preserving their reliability, ensuring long-term access, and addressing vulnerabilities introduced by information technology evolution. This research is crucial for maintaining the authenticity and usability of digital archival documents for scholarly work and knowledge continuity.
2. What insights do paleographical and notational analyses provide about early handwritten manuscripts and their historical contexts?
This theme delves into the study of handwriting forms, notational systems, and their materiality in medieval and early manuscripts, using palaeography and musicological approaches to historically situate these documents. Discoveries of specific notation types in manuscripts enhance understanding of regional cultural transitions, authorship practices, and the diffusion of liturgical and textual traditions, contributing to both historical musicology and codicology.
3. How do non-textual elements like body language and authorial reflexivity enrich the interpretive understanding of manuscripts and multimedia documents?
This research theme approaches manuscripts and multimedia documents not merely as textual artifacts but through the lens of communicative practices and reflexive metanarratives. It explores how physical expression and multimedia self-referentiality contribute to a fuller comprehension of meaning-making in documentary artifacts, extending archival studies to include embodied communication and meta-artistic commentary.