Topic Detection and Tracking
project: Moving Manchester / Mediating Marginalities: How the experience of migration has informed the work of writers in Greater Manchester
Grant Holder: Professor Lynne Pearce
Moving Manchester (formerly 'Mediating Marginalities') has spent the past four years (2006-2010) investigating the ways in which the experience of migration has impacted upon contemporary writing in the city and, by extension, the ways in which these multicultural publications and performances have impacted upon the urban population's view of itself as well as the wider perception of Manchester as a British city. [read more]
project: Person Data Repository of the 19th Century
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The project “Construction of a repository for biographical data on historical persons of the 19th century” – short form: Person Data Repository – enhances the existing approaches to data integration and electronically supported research in biographies. It investigates connecting and presenting heterogeneous information on persons of the “long nineteenth century” (1789–1914). The project's aim is to provide a de-central software system for research institutions, universities, archives, and libraries that allows combined access on biographic information from different data pools. [read more]
project: JainPedia
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JainPedia will be a free world-leading resource on the web. It offers translations and transcriptions of selected texts and a wealth of contextual information about the Jain religion and its host society in India.
The JainPedia team is leading the digitisation of approximately 4,000 pages of the thousands of jain manuscripts and Jain objects in the United Kingdom. The involvement of eminent academics and volunteers from the Jain community in the project highlights how the expertise and enthusiasm of different groups can work together to produce a valuable resource for all. [read more]
project: Schenker Documents Online
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The twentieth century's leading theorist of tonal music, Heinrich Schenker produced a series of innovative studies and editions between 1903 and 1935 and left behind a voluminous archive of correspondence, diaries and lessonbooks. Edited in near-diplomatic transcription and with English translations, these materials form the core of the edition, supported by additional documents relating to his life, and a set of "profiles" of people, places and organizations with which he came into contact. [read more]
project: Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
Grant Holder: Prof Laurel Brake
A three year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, ncse seeks to achieve two key objectives:
First the ncse project responds to the pressing need to republish these fragile printed items in ways which maintain their integrity. As physical collections are often incomplete, and deteriorating quality hampers access, electronic editions offer new opportunities to re-present such material in a way that is, for the first time online, comprehensive and freely available meaning that the material can be used in entirely novel ways. [read more]
project: Imagining history: medieval texts, contexts and communities in 'the English Brut Tradition'
Grant Holder: Professor John Thompson
"The 'Imagining History' project is the first large-scale collaborative investigation of the manuscripts of the Middle English Prose Brut chronicle, arguably the most prolificly disseminated secular text of the English Middle Ages. [read more]
project: Digitisation of the dictionary of the Irish language
Grant Holder: Professor Gregory Toner
This project (2003-07) set out to digitise and publish the complete contents of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language (DIL). The Dictionary has been an invaluable tool to scholars and students since its publication in twenty-three separate fasciculi between 1913 and 1976 but the difficulties in using the paper edition are widely recognised.
The digitised version ameliorates many of these problems and for the first time enables users to make searches of discrete data types such as translations, citations, grammatical descriptions and sources. [read more]
project: British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus
Grant Holder: Dr Hilary Nesi
The project enhances the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) corpus, which functions as a companion to the Michigan Corpus of Spoken Academic English (MICASE), a record of North American academic speech. [read more]
project: Line-by-line bibliographical database of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival'
Grant Holder: Professor David Yeandle
The intention is to produce a detailed line-by-line bibliographical database on Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, arguably the most important and complex work of medieval German literature. Owing partly to the vast secondary literature on Parzival and partly to its linguistic complexity, the need has constantly been expressed for an up-to-date detailed line-by-line commentary on the whole of Wolfram’s Grail romance. Some individual commentaries have been published within the last twenty years on portions of the work (e.g. David N. [read more]
project: People in Place: families, households and housing in early modern London
Grant Holder: Dr Vanessa Harding; Matthew Davies; richard smith; Mark Merry
This project examines the crucial role of family and household in the social and economic transformations that took place in London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Population growth, immigration, urbanisation, and commercialisation produced new patterns of sociability, gender relations, employment, and domestic lifestyle. The family was central to all these developments, but has been little studied in detail. [read more]