Fraas, Arthur
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Asian History
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Senior Curator, Special Collections, Kislak Center for Special Collections
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Publication Manifesto(2017-06-06) Fraas, Mitch; Noel, WilliamManuscript Studies is a new journal that embraces the full complexity of global manuscript studies in the digital age. It has been conceived with four main goals in mind. First, to bridge the gaps between material and digital manuscript research; second, to break down the walls which often separate print and digital publication and serve as barriers between academics, professionals in the cultural heritage field, and citizen scholars; third, to serve as a forum for scholarship encompassing many pre-modern manuscripts cultures—not just those of Europe; and finally to showcase methods and techniques of analysis in manuscript studies that can be applied across different subject areas.Publication Alexander Hamilton’s working papers(2016-05-13) Fraas, MitchEssay on a compilation of printed documents possibly owned by Alexander Hamilton.Publication July 5, 1776(2016-07-05) Fraas, MitchEssay on a printed and manuscript copy of a Portuguese declaration on the American Revolution.Publication July 4, 1788. Come for the beer, stay for the bibliography.(2013-07-03) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay about a printed account of Independence Day celebrations in Philadelphia July 4, 1788.Publication A Rocket Cat? Early Modern Explosives Treatises at Penn(2013-02-05) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay on an early modern explosives and warfare treatise held at Penn and the origin of the so-called "rocket cat"Publication A New Model for Manuscript Provenance Research: The Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project(2022-06-10) Burrows, Toby; Emery, Doug; Fraas, Arthur Mitchell; Hyvönen, Eero; Ikkala, Esko; Koho, Mikko; Lewis, David; Morrison, Andrew; Page, Kevin; Ransom, Lynn; Cawlfield Thomson, Emma; Tuominen, Jouni; Velios, Athanasios; Wijsman, HannoSince it was awarded a Round 4 Trans-Atlantic Platform Digging into Data Challenge grant in 2017, the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project has been working to develop and test a methodology to link disparate datasets from Europe and North America with the aim of providing large-scale analysis and visualizations of the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. Guided by a set of research questions identified at the outset of the project, MMM developed an innovative Linked Open Data model and dataset which unifies three separate manuscript-related databases in a semantically consistent way, together with the workflows for transforming the institutional data contributions into the common structure. The dataset has been made available through a Linked Open Data service hosted by the Linked Data Finland platform and the MMM semantic portal. The aggregated data can be queried and visualized at scales ranging from a single manuscript to a total of more than 216,000 manuscripts as a group. Visualization tools developed in the portal show how the manuscripts have traveled across time and space from their place of production to their current locations, where they continue to find new audiences. The following report summarizes our methodology and results, and lays the groundwork for further research using our processes.Publication More than Formulaic(2012-10-24) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay about an 18th-century American legal formulary created by Jared Ingersoll.Publication Mussolini’s Downfall(2012-05-24) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay on a copy of Mussolini's Diuturna [the Lasting] (Milan: Casa Editrice Imperia, 1924) held in the University of Pennsylvania libraries and annotated in 1945 using phrases from Victor Cousin by way of Cesare Cantù’s Storia Universale.Publication Ezra Pound and Overdue Poetry(2013-05-09) Fraas, Arthur MitchellContextual essay about Ezra Pound, his time at Penn, and his overdue poetry book from the Penn Libraries.Publication David Rittenhouse's Teenage Almanac?(2015-06-02) Fraas, MitchEssay about the acquisition of a manuscript autograph page possibly written by a young David Rittenhouse.