Digital Humanities Research Group seminar: ‘Two new resources for manuscript studies: network graphs, linked open data, open-access publishing, natural language processing’

The second Digital Humanities Research Group seminar of this semester will take place on Wednesday 6 March 12pm in room THB-G010 (Hardiman Research Building).

Pádraic Moran, Classics, University of Galway
‘Two new resources for manuscript studies: network graphs, linked open data, open-access publishing, natural language processing.’

This talk will discuss Digital Humanities aspects of work in progress on two online resources for the study of early manuscript culture: Manuscripts with Irish Associations (MIrA) <http://www.mira.ie> and Gloss Corpus <http://www.glossing.org/glosscorpus>. The former is an online catalogue, with images, for manuscripts either originating in Ireland or written by Irish scribes abroad, or associated with Ireland in other ways. The latter is a collaborative resource for digital editions of glosses, that is, short texts written between the lines and in the margins of manuscripts. I will provide a short introduction to both resources, with some comments on technical infrastructure and digital sustainability. For MIrA, I will discuss the deployment of network graphs and critical issues surrounding their interpretation. I will also outline current efforts to a create an international network of Linked Open Data for early medieval Latin manuscripts. For Gloss Corpus, I will explain the concept and practice of open-access publishing as applied here and discuss plans for the application of data analytics using natural language processing.

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Full programme:
https://mooreinstitute.ie/event/digital-humanities-research-seminar-series-spring-2024/