Dr. Johanna Green speaks with Aylin Malcolm and Caitlin Postal about manuscript materiality, digitization projects, and increased access to physical objects. Dr. Green is a lecturer in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow and co-director of the University of Glasgow Digital Cultural Heritage lab. In addition to her work on manuscript studies via social media and in light of the COVID-19 remote learning circumstances, she has been thinking about how to interact with the medieval book during lockdown. In this episode, she shares her experiences with sensory cues and digital manuscript studies.

Music credits: Intro: TeknoAXE, “Chiptune Nobility” (CC BY 4.0), interludes: Shane Ivers, “The Medieval Banquet” (CC BY 4.0) and Alexander Nakarada, “Marked” (CC BY 4.0).

Transcript and more information at https://codingcodices.wordpress.com/2021/11/05/episode-8-material-manuscripts-in-a-digital-world/.

Recorded 12 November 2020. Produced and edited by Aylin Malcolm.