Summary

This workshop will build on the results of the Network's first workshop by focussing on a consideration of how different forms of representation (facsimile, photograph, diplomatic, critical edition, digital edition, database) have changed scholars’ perspectives on texts and their relationship to the originals.

Programme

Thursday 21st January

2 pm: Opening remarks (Deborah Hayden)

Session 1, 2.10–3.40 pm

Digital editing: methods, problems and impact

Chair: Deborah Hayden

Paul Russell (University of Cambridge): ‘Reflections on the Early Irish Glossaries Database (and Other Online Materials) in its Second Decade’

Beatrix Färber (CELT project, University College Cork): ‘Squaring the Circle? Electronic Editing and the Integrity of the Text’

Elliott Lash (Universität Göttingen): “Why the Minor Glosses Portion of CorPH is a Linguistic Database and not a Digital Edition”

3.40–4 pm: Break

Session 2, 4–5.30 pm

The capture and markup of texts

Chair: David Stifter

Chris Yocum (Independent Scholar): ‘IrishGen: Capture Structure within Texts’

Fangzhe Qiu (University College Dublin): ‘Capturing Linguistic Changes in Early Irish Texts: Variation Tagging in CorPH’

Martina Maher & Eystein Thanisch (Faclair na Gàidhlig, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig): ‘Hand-crafted: the Manual Capture of a Corpus of Tagged Gaelic Manuscript Texts and its Potential’

Friday 22nd January

Session 3: 11 am–12.30 pm

Chair: Jo Tucker

Techniques of data extraction, visualisation and analysis

Bernhard Bauer (ChronHib project, Maynooth University): ‘(Semi-)automatised Transcription of Medieval Manuscripts: Optical Character Recognition & Handwritten Text Recognition’

Pat Palmer, Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh & Evan Bourke (MACMORRIS project, Maynooth University): ‘Visualising Literary Patronage Networks in Gaelic Ireland c. 1550–1650’

Peter Stokes (École pratique des hautes études, Paris): ‘From Images to Information: Some Digital and Computational Approaches to Manuscript Studies’

12.30–1.30 pm: Lunch Break

Session 4: 1.30–2.30 pm

Roundtable discussion on the digitisation of Gaelic manuscript sources

Moderator: Greg Toner

Participants: Claire Breay (British Library); Barbara McCormick (Royal Irish Academy); Ulrike Hogg (National Library of Scotland); Anne Marie O’Brien (ISOS project, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies); Pádraig Ó Macháin (Watermarks in Irish Documents project, University College Cork)

2.30–2.40 pm: Break

Session 5: 2.45–3.30 pm

Presentation of the Corpus PalaeoHibernicum (CorPH) database by members of the Chronologicon Hibernicum project (Maynooth University)