About Us
For more information and background about METAscripta, see our project website:
For questions about researching manuscripts using the METAscripta digital resource, please contact:
Project Director: Lea 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
For questions about research at the Vatican Film Library in St. Louis:
Assistant Dean for Special Collections: Gregory Pass, PhD, MALS
gregory.pass@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, Dean 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
SLU students and former students who have worked on this project since its inception include:
Kirsten Buckner, Conor Dorn, Katelyn Gettis, Bing Han, Blake Hartung, Genna Hilbing, Jerris Kirkwood, Jacob Kopfensteiner, Bailey McCulloch, Emma McGilvray, Brian Merlo, Amy Nelson, Anna Nguyen, Evie Nguyen, Chloe Oliff, Kate Perko, Beth Petitjean, Annie Pham, Sugandh Raj, Xander Sisco, Olivia Smithhisler, George Summers, Margaret Mary Summers, Srihaas Tammareddy, Katherine Tang, Sai Tanikonda, John Thorpe, Natalie Whitaker