About Us
For more information and background about METAscripta, see our project website:
For questions about researching manuscripts using the METAscripta digital resource or about the Vatican Film Library in St. Louis, please contact:
Project Director: Lea Luecking Frost, PhD, MIS
lea.frost@slu.edu
For questions about the METAscripta user interface including how we built it, please contact:
Systems Architect/Webmaster: Philip (Ben) Bakelaar, MLIS
philip.bakelaar@slu.edu
We would also like to acknowledge the following grant support from:
Saint Louis University Research Growth Fund
and contributions of effort from these individuals:
Debra Taylor Cashion, Professor and Director Emerita
David Cassens, Former Dean for University Libraries
David Gohara, former Director of Computational Research
Kenneth Olliff, Vice President for Research
Kyle Collins, Chief Information Officer
Haroon Iqbal and Sam Deeljore, University ITS
Glen Robson, IIIF Technical Coordinator
Daniel Berthereau, Omeka/IIIF developer
Jon Fackrell, Omeka/IIIF developer
Erica Lauriello, Patron Services Coordinator, Pius XII Library
Donna Neely, Office Administrator, Pius XII Library
Ann Scales, Post-award Specialist, Grant Operations (GO) Center
Gregory Pass, former Director, Vatican Film Library
Jennifer Nutefall, Dean for Libraries and Museums
Ben Bakelaar
SLU students and former students who have worked on this project since its inception include:
Sana'a Abou Antoun, Kirsten Buckner, Sarah Burt, Conor Dorn, Ini Ekpe, Katelyn Gettis, Bing Han, Blake Hartung, Genna Hilbing, Jerris Kirkwood, Jacob Kopfensteiner, Dixie Lindstrom, Bailey McCulloch, Emma McGilvray, Brian Merlo, Amy Nelson, Anna Nguyen, Evie Nguyen, Julia Niedzwiedzka, Chloe Oliff, Waghar Osmun, Kate Perko, Beth Petitjean, Alice Phaby, Annie Pham, Sugandh Raj, Xander Sisco, Olivia Smithhisler, George Summers, Margaret Mary Summers, Srihaas Tammareddy, Katherine Tang, Sai Tanikonda, John Thorpe, Natalie Whitaker