H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

IMEP DCCP · Index of Middle English Prose: Digital Cotton Catalogue Project

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-09-01 → 2023-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 202 159 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Средновековните английски прозове от 1200–1500 г., като тези в колекцията „Котън“, се анализират чрез нов цифров инструмент за търсене. Това улеснява достъпа до културното наследство и помага за справянето с езиковите разлики в стария английски език.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Index of Middle English Prose: Digital Cotton Catalogue Project

Medieval manuscripts form a major part of our collective cultural heritage. They have become more easily available in recent decades due to digitisation, which has made it possible to develop advanced search tools. The Index of Middle English Prose (IMEP) is the most important reference tool for non-verse texts written in English between c. 1200 and 1500. Originally envisioned as a series of printed volumes, it is now available as a website hosted by the Cambridge University Library (CUL). The aim of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action titled Index of Middle English Prose: Digital Cotton Catalogue Project (IMEP-DCCP) was to develop and test a digital search tool enabling access to all entries in the Index of Middle English Prose website. The project had three main overall objectives: I Preparing a printed IMEP volume describing all Middle English prose from the Cotton collection housed in the British Library. Assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631), this collection is one of the most famous manuscript collections in Britain. II Developing a search tool capable of handling linguistic variation in Middle English. This tool was co-developed with the Text Laboratory of the University of Oslo for integration into the IMEP website. III Drafting guidelines for the future development and digitisation work related to the online version of IMEP.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The Index of Middle English Prose (IMEP) is the most important reference tool for Middle English non-verse texts. It seeks, for the first time, to locate and identify all surviving English prose texts composed between c. 1200 and 1500. In this project I will aim at developing and testing an innovative digital search tool that will greatly facilitate accessing all entries across the different IMEP catalogues and make it possible to search for texts regardless of the wide range of spelling variation. The prototype of the digital search tool will be based on a draft of an IMEP volume for one of the most famous medieval manuscript collections in Britain: the Cotton collection in the British Library. I will, additionally, edit an IMEP volume for print publication. The proposed research action formulates three main objectives. These seek to improve the functionality of the IMEP website, to expand the site with the addition of the Cotton volume and to lay the foundation for expansion of the IMEP by writing guidelines for the digitisation of further volumes. Since I am trained in manuscript studies and Middle English as well as in Digital Humanities and compilation of corpora of historical texts, I possess the necessary expertise to undertake the research action. The action includes research trips to the British Library in London as well as a secondment at the Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH). The host is the University of Oslo where local expertise is available that is highly pertinent to the research action, including the editor-in-chief of the IMEP and an IMEP advisory board member with complementary expertise in both manuscript studies, Middle English, and natural language processing. The research action will both consolidate and expand my profile to qualify me for an assistant/associate professorship.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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