Text encoding - descriptive
project: Conceptions of cultural studies in Cassirer's theory of symbolic forms
Grant Holder: Professor Roger Stephenson
"Ernst Cassirer was a noted philosopher of culture and the sciences at Hamburg until 1933, and he was granted a LL.D. by the law faculty of the University of Glasgow – hence it is appropriate for the University of Glasgow to be the site of this project. Cassirer’s most creative period in Germany occurred after he discovered the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, and this epoch is best documented by the correspondence and other documents housed today in the archive of the Warburg Institute, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. [read more]
project: Electronic corpus of Lute music (ECOLM) II
Grant Holder: Professor Geraint Wiggins
ECOLM is a web-accessible user-friendly digital scholarly resource centred around the musicology of the lute. By means of a guided interface, it supplies professional and amateur users with effective and efficient search methods (using words or music as queries) over a database comprising over 2000 pieces of lute music, which can be retrieved, viewed in tablature and (given a suitable computer) played back, without the need to understand specialist computer code. [read more]
project: TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
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TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation.
TAPoR has built a unique human and computing infrastructure for text analysis across Canada by establishing six regional centers to form one national text analysis research network. One of the major projects of the network was the development of the portal. This portal is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. [read more]
project: Wa dictionary and internet database for minority languages of Burma
Grant Holder: Dr Justin Watkins
The SOAS Wa Dictionary Project is a three-year effort (2003-2006), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to produce a high-quality dictionary, translating Wa into Chinese, Burmese/Myanmar and English. [read more]
project: Reconstructing the Quseiri Arabic Documents (RQAD)
Grant Holder: Professor Dionisius Agius
The research objective is to read or reconstruct the Arabic documents found at the harbour town of Quseir on the Egyptian Red Sea coast during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (13th-15th centuries)
ie:
a) to evaluate the texts combined with archeological enquiry;
b) to examine the content and context within the framework of the long distance trade and pilgrim traffic from Quesir as a chief port of the Red Sea region and its trade contacts with the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
c) to raise public and scholarly awareness about the significance of the documents as a source of academic, ed [read more]
project: Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
Grant Holder: Professor Robert Parker
Ancient Greek names provide crucial evidence to the historian. They reveal where people came from; they show what gods were popular at a given time; they may express political ideals. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names project traces every bearer of every name, drawing on a huge variety of evidence, from personal tombstones, dedications, works of art, to civic decrees, treaties, citizen-lists etc., as well as literature, artefacts, graffiti etc. The result: almost 400,000 ancient Greeks on record. [read more]
project: The clergy of the Church of England database, 1540-1835
Grant Holder: Professor Kenneth Fincham
The Clergy of the Church of England Database was established in October 1999 with a grant of £529,000 over five years from the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Its objective is to construct a relational database containing the careers of all clergymen of the Church of England between 1540 and 1835. [read more]
project: The Perdita Project: Early modern women's manuscript compilations
Grant Holder: Dr Elizabeth Rosemary Clarke
The Perdita Project
* is a collaborative project funded until 2005 by the AHRB in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University and Warwick University.
* has produced an online guide to over 500 manuscript compilations in collections around the world.
* is a research tool for historians and literary scholars.
The Perdita Project, established in January 1997 by Nottingham Trent University, has purchased a microfilm collection of about 400 manuscripts compiled by women in the British Isles. [read more]
project: The Edinburgh Historical Linguistic Atlases & Text Corpora: Early Middle English and Older Scots (2)
Grant Holder: Mr Derek Britton
The principal aims of the project are to produce two historical linguistic atlases: A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, 1150-1300 (LAME) and A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots phase I 1380-1500 (LAOS). These atlases follow «A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English» (LALME), ed. Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels and Michael Benskin (Aberdeen: AUP, 1986). In the periods covered by these atlases, neither English nor Scots were written in a standard form. Written forms are characterized by variation – different spellings of ‘the same’ word or morpheme. [read more]
project: Virtual Vellum
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Virtual Vellum is an e Science demonstrator project that has been funded by EPSRC/JISC/Arts & Humanities e-Science Initiative and the UK e Science Core Programme with the aim of promoting and demonstrating the use of technology within arts and humanities research.
The aim of the project is to investigate technologies that facilitate the retrieval, manipulation and annotation/hotspotting of very high resolution image datasets (typically greater than 8k x 6k pixels). Each dataset may consist of many hundred images, such as those from digitised manuscripts. [read more]