Victorine van Schaick Prize Winner

Dr Suzette van Haaren has won the Victorine van Schaick Prize for her PhD dissertation‘The digital medieval manuscript: approaches to digital codicology’. The prize is given for the best groundbreaking publication in the domain of digital knowledge and libraries.  Dr van Haaren argues that the digital proxy has its own objecthood and its own physical manifestation (with hardware, storage systems, screens, etc). This radical idea departs from the normal way in which people have long talked about the digital as disembodied, virtual, and lacking in substance. This intellectual contribution alone is likely to lead to a significant reassessment of what ‘digital’ means. Dr van Haaren wrote her thesis as a co-tutelle, supervised by Prof Kathryn Rudy (St Andrews), Prof Babette Hellemans and Prof Ann-Sophie Lehmann (University of Groningen).