Women in Modern Irish Culture

Project start date: 2005-02 Project end date: 2007-05
The database includes a whole range of publications, such as novels, articles, poems, memoirs, travel writing, essays, cookery writing, plays, films, etc. The database also provides biographical details, where available, such as birth dates, date of death, place of birth and death, places associated with a particular author, together with all known pseudonyms. Every known edition of a book, play, or film is listed, along with details of printers and publishers for each work. The project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, was led by Professor Maria Luddy of the University of Warwick and Professor Gerardine Meaney of University College Dublin and the database has been designed by Robert O'Toole of Elab, University of Warwick.
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Methods usedCategory
Resource sharingCommunication and collaboration
Cataloguing and indexingData structuring and enhancement
Coding and standardisationData structuring and enhancement
CollatingData analysis
Data modellingData structuring and enhancement
DocumentationStrategy and project management
Iterative designStrategy and project management
Text encoding - descriptiveData structuring and enhancement
Text encoding - referentialData structuring and enhancement
PrototypingStrategy and project management
Record linkagesData analysis
Risk managementStrategy and project management
Server scriptingData publishing and dissemination
System quality assurance and code testingStrategy and project management
Usability analysisStrategy and project management
Interface designData publishing and dissemination
Web browser scriptingData publishing and dissemination
preservationStrategy and project management
historyDiscipline
Funding sources: 
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created: 
Dataset/structured data
Software tools used: 
Javascript, Microsoft Access, MySQL, Java, Visual Basic, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, JBOSS
Source material used:  
Material for this resource was accessed through archives in the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin, Library, the British Library, the National Archives, Dublin, as well as the Irish Literary Collections Portal at Emory University. Online library catalogues and COPAC were utilised as well as subscription sources such as the Chadwyck-Hely source, 'British Periodicals'.
Digital resource created:  
Since 2005 the project has constructed a bibliographical database of Irish women writers, who wrote in both Irish and English, between 1800 and 2005.
Access to digital resource:  
Open Access
Data Formats created: 
Microsoft Access Database (MDB), MySQL Database, Relational Database
adobe flash web application
Metadata standards employed: 
Other

Institutions affiliated with this project: 

UK HE institutions involved:
University of Warwick
UK HE institutions involved:
Dublin
University College
Ireland

Project staff and expertise: 

Principal staff member:Professor Maria Luddy, Professor Gerardine Meaney
Other staff:Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s)
External expertise:


Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record
Author(s) of recordMaria Luddy
TitleWomen in Modern Irish Culture
Record created2010-07-20
Record updated2010-07-20 10:30
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3581
Citation of recordMaria Luddy: Women in Modern Irish Culture.
<http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3581>
created: 2010-07-20, last updated 2010-07-20 10:30