Anglo-Saxon Language of Landscape (LangScape)
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Grant Holder:
Professor Dame Janet Nelson
The aim of the LangScape Project is to make accessible over the web a rich body of material relating to the English countryside of a thousand years ago and more, using estate boundaries - detailed descriptions by those who lived in and worked the Anglo-Saxon landscape. The completed website - an electronic corpus of Anglo-saxon boundary clauses with extensive XML mark-up - will be a powerful research tool with applications within a broad range of academic disciplines. It will also be designed with a view to its ongoing development for public and schools use.
Generation of HTML files from XML for web delivery
| Project start date: 2004-09 | Project end date: 2009-12 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
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| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Lemmatisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Texture design and mapping | Practice-led research |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| linguistics | Discipline |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | Metadata standards |
| Statistical analysis | Data analysis |
| text | Content types |
| history | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Text
Software tools used:
Javascript, Microsoft Access, MySQL, Perl, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Java, Apache Tomcat, XSLT, Apache Cocoon, SVN, RDB2Java, Oxygen
Source material used:
Manuscripts, existing transcriptions made by the Old English Dictionary
Digital resource created:
Website containing contextual materials, an archive of over 1800 Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds visualised in a number of different ways, tools for linguistic analysis of the texts, and a resource designed to support teaching of Old English.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), MySQL, Extensible Markup Language (XML) TEI-compliant
Metadata standards employed:
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Keyhole Markup Language (KML)
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Dame Janet Nelson, Joy Jenkins, Peter Stokes |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s) |
| External expertise: |
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| Author(s) of record | Paul Vetch |
| Title | Anglo-Saxon Language of Landscape (LangScape) |
| Record created | 2009-09-29 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-28 17:10 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2994 |
| Citation of record | Paul Vetch: Anglo-Saxon Language of Landscape (LangScape). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2994> created: 2009-09-29, last updated 2010-06-28 17:10 |