Listing 33 project(s) whose Methods and Technique is (or has relevance to) Manual transcription

1641 Depositions Project

This 3 year project aims to transcribe and digitise the Depositions comprising 3,500+ depositions, examinations and associated materials, located in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, in which Protestant men and women of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641.

A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters, c. 1244-1509

The original rolls of the Irish chancery were destroyed in 1922. CIRCLE provides a reconstruction of these invaluable record. It brings together all known letters enrolled on the Irish chancery rolls during the Middle Ages (1244–1509) using copies, transcripts and calendars ranging in date from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries. The website also includes sample images of original Mss.

A Digital Edition of the Alcalá Account Book

This project focused on the creation of a digital edition of the 17th c. Alcalá Account Book, from the Irish College of Alcalá de Henares, Spain. We have provided an online, interactive, full-text, searchable version of the manuscript, along with its transcription (Spanish), translation (English) and preservation quality images.

Ainm.ie Irish-language biography project

An Irish-language biography project developed by Fiontar, DCU, with Cló Iar-Chonnachta, and Diarmuid Breathnach and Máire Ní Mhurchú, original authors. The Dept. of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs is funding the initial strand to digitize and publish online nine volumes of Irish biographies (1986-2007). A valuable original study comprising biographies of Irish men and women, 1560-2006.

Ars Apodemica Online

Creating a searchable bibliographic and content description database of early modern "travel advice" (ars apodemica) literature, and digitize in searchable full text format documents belonging to this group.

Art College Student Registers

The Art College Student Registers comprise 150 ledgers spanning the period 1877-1986. Each page of the ledgers has been digitally scanned and the individual names of students, and the academic year of enrollment have been indexed and are available as a searchable database. Approximately 20,000 named individuals have been recorded, providing a unique record of Irish artists and designers.

Christ on the Cross: Textual and Material Representations of the Passion in Medieval Ireland (800-1200)

'Christ on the cross' is a multidisciplinary project that includes amongst its ambitions the creation of a database detailing all the images of the Passion surviving from Ireland 800-1200, linked to the texts in which they are described.

Conflict Archive on the INternet

The CAIN Web site provides information and source material on 'the Troubles' and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. There is also information on Northern Ireland society.

Corpus of Electronic Texts

CELT brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture to the Internet. By August 2010, it has a searchable online textbase of 13.7 million words, in Irish, English, Latin and other languages, encoded in TEI-conformant XML, in over 1100 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature and the other arts.

Digital Resources & Imaging Services

Digital Resources & Imaging Services is a new department dedicated to the creation of digital content from the Trinity College Library Dublin's extensive collections of Early Printed Books and Manuscripts. The DRIS department is currently engaged in the development of a digital library collections online repository to provide open access to these valuable cultural and academic resources.

Doegen Records Web Project

This project will publish the Doegen sound archive of native Irish speakers from the early 20th century on the web. The archive consists of over 200 records made during the period 1928-31 and includes speakers from each of the four provinces. Items recorded include stories, songs and prayers.

Earley and Company Archives

This is the archive of one of the largest and most prestigious ecclesiastical decorators in Ireland and the UK which operated out of Dublin offices from 1852-1974. The collection of designs and supporting documentation was donated by the Earley family to the National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL) at NCAD between 2002 and 2005. A project to index and digitise the drawings was completed in 2004.

Early Irish Glossaries Project

The Early Irish Glossaries Project is working on new print editions of Sanas Cormaic (Cormac's glossary), O'Mulconry's glossary, Dúil Dromma Cetta and related texts. These were compiled in Ireland from the eighth century, and are important for our understanding of early Irish literary and language studies. The online Early Irish Glossaries Database provides a range of supplementary resources.

electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

eDIL is an electronic edition of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of the Irish Language, based mainly on Old and Middle Irish. All major discrete data types are tagged, including headword, grammatical information, definitions, citatations, translations and bibliographical information. We are currently preparing supplementary and revised entries based on more recent research.

Electronic lexicon of Old Irish

This prototype electronic lexicon of Old Irish is the result of research that I carried out investigating how XML can support the advanced search and interrogation of Old Irish historical lexicography, especially in terms of word forms and the complexities of morphology and orthography that are, for historical reasons, so pronounced in Old Irish.