Modern Languages

project: A Digital Library of Core e-Resources on Ireland

Grant Holder:
This project fills a critical gap in the provision of research and learning resources in Irish studies. The content comes from an unparalleled grouping of collaboration - collectively the partners hold an unrivalled range of printed research materials that are simply not available to the academic community in such critical mass elsewhere. The project will make the resources in the partner institutions more accessible to a wider audience. [read more]

project: Stellenbibliographie zum Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach (SPWE )

Grant Holder: Professor David Yeandle
A project to produce a detailed line-by-line bibliographical database on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival; from this database is constituted a line-by-line commentary on the poem. The first edition of the Stellenbibliographie zum "Parzival" Wolframs von Eschenbach für die Jahrgänge 1984-1996, was published by Niemeyer Verlag (Tübingen) on CD-ROM in 2002. [read more]

event: THATCamp London

THATCamp is a user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities developed by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. This year, for the first time, a THATCamp will occur at the same time and same place as the DH conference — the world’s premere conference on the Digital Humanities, and we expect that having both together will spark exciting new ideas!

You need to apply to take part in the THATCamp. Find out more about it at http://thatcamplondon.org/.

Tags: 
digital humanities
Unconference
Discipline: 
Archaeology
Classics and Ancient History
Dance Studies
Drama and Theatre Studies
English Language and Literature
Modern Languages
History
Law
Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
Linguistics
Media
Music
Philosophy
Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies
Architecture: History, Theory & Practice
Community Arts (including Art and Health)
Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries
Visual Arts
Design
By John Bradley at Wed, 17/03/2010 - 15:21

tool: GeoParser

Purpose: 

GeoParser is a text analysis tool that may be used to identify, tag and (where appropriate) disambiguate references to geographic location in a text resource. The tool uses Natural Language Processing to analyse the composition of a resource and identifying words that match its geographic database. The approach is useful for processing ambiguous references, such as names that may have one of several locations (e.g. Belfast in Ireland, New Zealand and Canada) and distinguishing names that may be confused with other action (e.g. Reading in Berkshire and reading as an activity).

Features: 

• Analyse text stored in structured, semi-structured and unstructured text formats
• Creates information that may be processed and used by a global gazetteer

A&H use case 1 description: 
The Embedded GeoCrossWalk project use the GeoParser to extracts the place names found in proceedings of the Stormont Assembly.
Publisher: 
University of Edinburgh School of Informatics - Language Technology Group
Creator: 
University of Edinburgh School of Informatics - Language Technology Group
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
plain text
metadata records
Data capture: 
Text recognition
Communication and collaboration: 
Textual interaction (asynchronous)
Software/programming languages used: 
GeoParser
Discipline: 
English Language and Literature
Modern Languages
Linguistics
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
Data mining
Parsing
Searching and querying
Spatial data analysis
Text mining
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Geo-referencing and projection
Text encoding - referential
Tags: 
Parsing
Geoparser
Strategy and project management: 
Documentation
Alternate tool(s): 

Metacarta’s GeoTagger, Digital Reasoning’s GeoLocator, Lockheed Martin’s AeroText, and SRA’s NetOwl

Practice-led research: 
Texture design and mapping
Licence: 
University of Edinburgh fee-free use (no modifications)
Platform: 
All major operating systems
lifecycleStage: 
analysis
publishing
By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 12/03/2010 - 10:44

tool: MMax2

Purpose: 

MMax2 is a text annotation tool for creating and visualizing annotations. It has advanced and customizable methods for information and relation visualization.

Features: 

• Determination of the word class / part of speech (POS) for words in a text
• Determination of word senses, including the disambiguation of homonymous and polysemous words
• Detection of anaphoric expressions and identification of their antecedents

A&H use case 1 description: 
The MMax2 annotation tool has been used by the Embedded GeoCrossWalk project to perform annotation of the Stormont Papers resource.
Publisher: 
EML Research gGmbH
Creator: 
Christoph Muller
Software/programming languages used: 
MMAX2
Data capture: 
Text recognition
Specifications: 
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
Java
Communication and collaboration: 
Textual interaction (asynchronous)
Suite: 
Apache
Discipline: 
Classics and Ancient History
English Language and Literature
Modern Languages
History
Data analysis: 
Content analysis
Searching and querying
Visualisation
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Collaborative publishing
User contributed content
Tags: 
annotation
corpus linguistics
Corpus annotation
Strategy and project management: 
Documentation
Preservation
Practice-led research: 
Texture design and mapping
Alternate tool(s): 

NXT (NITE XML), Annotate

Data structuring and enhancement: 
Text encoding - descriptive
Text encoding - referential
Licence: 
Apache
Platform: 
All major operating systems
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
analysis
By natalie.hutchinson at Fri, 12/03/2010 - 10:33

project: Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic (CLBA )

Grant Holder: Professor David Treece
An investigation of the cultural expressions of, and responses to, the history of the black diaspora within the Lusophone Atlantic triangle; that is, the transnational movements of people and traditions, the dialogues and exchanges that have occurred between the societies of Portugal, Africa and Brazil from the beginning of the slave trade until the present day. [read more]

centre: Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE)

Host institution: 
University of Birmingham
Director: 
Co-directors: Barbara Bordalejo, David Parker, Peter Robinson

The Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing is founded on the premise that computer methods are now fundamental to every stage of the editorial process. We use digital tools to locate and view the original materials; to transcribe them into electronic form; to compare the texts and to analyze the patterns of variation; and we publish them electronically. We are the home of two major projects built to this formula: the St John's Gospel editions led by David Parker, and the Canterbury Tales Project, led by Barbara Bordalejo and Peter Robinson.

Services provided: 

Creation of scholarly editions in digital form, particularly of works in many versions; large scale digitization of manuscript materials; development of software for scholarly editing

Membership: 
Network of Expert Centres
Website: 
http://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk/
Tags: 
Network of Centres
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
scholarly editions
Discipline: 
Classics and Ancient History
English Language and Literature
Modern Languages
History
Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies
Slideshow Image: 
By Peter Robinson at Mon, 01/03/2010 - 11:07

project: Pliny: A note manager

Grant Holder:
The Pliny project aims to promote some thinking that looks broadly at the provision of tools to support scholarship. One of its products is a piece of free software, also called Pliny, which facilitates note-taking and annotation, allowing its user to integrate these initial notes into a representation of an evolving personal interpretation. [read more]

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