Early Irish Glossaries Project
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Grant Holder:
Dr Paul Russell
An important resource for our understanding of the literary and cultural environment of medieval Ireland is a series of three inter-related early Irish glossaries, known as Sanas Cormaic ‘Cormac’s Glossary’, O’Mulconry’s Glossary, and Dúil Dromma Cetta ‘the Collection of Druim Cett’. They each consist of alphabetically listed (first letter only) headwords followed by an entry which can range from a single word explanation, often an explanation of the headword, to a whole narrative running to several pages. In addition to the Database of all the entries, the Early Irish Glossaries Project (EIGP) will produce the first critical editions of these texts.
| Project start date: 2006-07 | Project end date: 2009-07 |
Subject domains:
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| Methods used | Category |
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| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Text recognition | Data capture |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Textual interaction (synchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Statistical analysis | Data analysis |
| text | Content types |
| history | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Text
Software tools used:
MySQL, PHP
Source material used:
The early Irish glossaries Sanas Cormaic (Cormac’s Glossary), O’Mulconry’s Glossary and Dúil Dromma Cetta (the Collection of Druim Cett), as well as the shorter texts Loman and Irsan.
Digital resource created:
The work is facilitated by and supplemented with an Early Irish Glossaries Database (EIGD), a powerful and flexible tool for searching and analysing the texts. The database currently contains headwords for each manuscript version of these glossaries, and allows you to list headwords, search for occurrences of words, and generate concordance tables of different versions. The database is supplemented by a Bibliography and a list of Abbreviations to allow access to the available printed versions of the glossaries. It will be expanded to include the full text of all manuscript versions, as well as links to manuscript images and other supplementary information.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
MySQL, Extensible Markup Language (XML) TEI-compliant
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Paul Russell |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Paul Russell |
| Title | Early Irish Glossaries Project |
| Record created | 2008-03-13 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-30 18:34 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2290 |
| Citation of record | Paul Russell: Early Irish Glossaries Project. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2290> created: 2008-03-13, last updated 2010-06-30 18:34 |