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标题：Making More: the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance as a Platform for Collaborative work with Medieval Manuscripts Online
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作者：Matthew Evan Davis
期刊名称：Peregrinations
电子版ISSN：1554-8678
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：3
页码：112-116
出版社：International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
摘要：A problem with doing any sort of research regarding medieval manuscripts and other cultural works on the internet is having to sift through the dross to find the gold. Google’s algorithms make it incredibly easy to find information based on particular keywords. Once found, however, that information is not always of value to the particular purpose the researcher intends. Doing a search for “medieval angel,” for example, returns as the second result not information on angels in the middle ages, but of an item in a medieval-themed video game. Image searches are just as haphazard – while there are a number of medieval images included in such a search, there are many more medievally-themed items from sites such as deviantART. Additionally, there is no context for these images or searches. This makes attempting to do any sort of meaningful work from a Google search nearly impossible, and obscures the digital resources that do exist and would be of use to scholars. Clearly some sort of curated list of meaningful sites is necessary, collected in a single location