A searchable, standards based catalogue of the Calum Maclean collection of Gaelic oral narrative
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Grant Holder:
Dr John Shaw
The Calum Maclean Collection Online Catalogue Project aims to make a major collection of material central to Scottish Ethnology available in digital form as an accessible and flexible research resource. The collection consists of over 13,000 manuscript pages of transcriptions of Gaelic folklore and song from the fieldwork of Calum Iain Maclean (1915-1960) carried out mainly in the Scottish Hebrides as well as in the Scottish Mainland Highlands. Primarily the collection consists of tale-texts together with full-length autobiographies from two major storytellers. The texts will be encoded in XML using TEI format and presented dynamically online via a website through a searchable XML database. This will not only provide a powerful and adaptable contemporary resource for folktale research but also a major Gaelic language corpus.
| Project start date: 2006-01 | Project end date: 2009-07 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
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| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) | Metadata standards |
| text | Content types |
| scotland | Place |
| history | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Oxygen XML Editor, TEI Lite DTD
Source material used:
The collection consists of over 13,000 manuscript pages of transcriptions of Gaelic folklore and song from the fieldwork of Calum Iain Maclean (1915-1960) carried out mainly in the Scottish Hebrides as well as in the Scottish Mainland Highlands. Primarily the collection consists of tale-texts together with full-length autobiographies from two major storytellers.
Digital resource created:
The Calum Maclean Collection Online Catalogue Project aims to make a major collection of material central to Scottish Ethnology available in digital form as an accessible and flexible research resource.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Graphics interchange format file (GIF), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG)
Metadata standards employed:
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Edinburgh |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Dublin |
| University College |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr John Shaw |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | John Shaw |
| Title | A searchable, standards based catalogue of the Calum Maclean collection of Gaelic oral narrative |
| Record created | 2010-07-19 |
| Record updated | 2010-07-19 12:11 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3633 |
| Citation of record | John Shaw: A searchable, standards based catalogue of the Calum Maclean collection of Gaelic oral narrative. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3633> created: 2010-07-19, last updated 2010-07-19 12:11 |