Category: Textual analysis

Mapping Metaphor from the University of Glasgow

Post author By Katie Faull
Post date August 30, 2015
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‘Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus‘ is a project researching changes in metaphorical thought and expression in the history of English. It was funded by the AHRC (grant reference AH/I02266X/1), was based in English Language, and ran from January 2012 to March 2015. From April 2015 to March 2016, we are continuing this work with the AHRC-funded project ‘Metaphor in the Curriculum’. Working with partners in education, this project uses the Mapping Metaphor research to create materials for schools based around metaphor.

*Our online, freely-available Metaphor Map of the English language is now available at this address*: http://mappingmetaphor.arts.gla.ac.uk. See our blog and Twitter feed for news, events and information.

Tags metaphor, Visualization

Crowdsourcing Digital edition Textual analysis

Transcribe Bentham

Post author By Katie Faull
Post date September 1, 2014

Transcribe Bentham

‘Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work‘, wrote the philosopher and reformer, Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832) in 1793. In this spirit, we cordially welcome you to Transcribe Bentham, a double award-winning collaborative transcription initiative, which is digitising and making available digital images of Bentham’s unpublished manuscripts through a platform known as the ‘Transcription Desk‘. There, you can access the material and—just as importantly—transcribe the material, to help the work of UCL’s Bentham Project, and further improve access to, and searchability of, this enormously important collection of historical and philosophical material.”

http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/

Preservation Textual analysis

The Great Parchment Book

Post author By Katie Faull
Post date September 1, 2014

The Great Parchment Book of The Honourable The Irish Society is a major survey, compiled in 1639 by a Commission instituted under the Great Seal by Charles I, of all those estates in Derry managed by the City of London through the Irish Society and the City of London livery companies. It represents a hugely important source for the City of London’s role in the Protestant colonisation and administration of Ulster. Damaged as the result of a fire at Guildhall in 1786, it has been unavailable to researchers for over 200 years. However, the manuscript has remained part of the City of London’s collections held at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA reference CLA/049/EM/02/018.) As part of the 2013 commemorations in Derry of the 400th anniversary of the building of the city walls, it was decided to attempt to make the Great Parchment Book available as a central point of an exhibition in Derry’s Guildhall.

Mapping Textual analysis

Map of Early Modern London

Post author By Katie Faull
Post date September 1, 2014

The Map of Early Modern London

“The Map of Early Modern London is comprised of four distinct, interoperable projects: a digital Map and gazetteer based on the 1560s Agas woodcut map of London; an Encyclopedia of London people, places, topics, and terms; a Library of marked-up texts rich in London toponyms; and a versioned edition of John Stow’s Survey of London.
These four projects draw data from MoEML’s five databases: a Placeography of locations (e.g., streets, sites, playhouses, taverns, churches, wards, and topographical features); a Personography of early modern Londoners, both historical and literary; an Orgography of organizations (e.g., livery companies and other corporations); a Bibliography of primary and secondary sources; and a Glossary of terms relevant to early modern London. All of the files in our databases use a common TEI tagset that enables us to work with primary and secondary texts simultaneously.”
Jenstad, Janelle. n.d. “About MoEML.” The Map of Early Modern London. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed August 24, 2014. http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/about.htm.

Digital edition Preservation Textual analysis

Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary

Post author By Katie Faull
Post date September 1, 2014

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project

Link to project home page

About the Project
(excerpted from the project website)

The publication of Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary: A Multispectral Critical Edition reveals for the first time the original record of a remarkable and traumatic period in the life of David Livingstone, the celebrated British abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa. The date of publication coincides almost exactly with the date Livingstone completed this diary in Central Africa 140 years ago. The original, previously unpublished text of the diary has remained inaccessible until now, due to the fragility of the paper and the near-illegible script. The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project has restored the full text of the diary by using cutting-edge spectral imaging and processing technology, and now makes the diary available through this electronic edition.