We hope you are finding your way around our transcription system well. Remember that in addition to the videos, you can see (and download) a pdf from the beginning of the Training page which gives you all of the information you need to use the transcription desk: While you are practicing on this passage, you … Continue reading “The training text: Del conseio que ouieron los de carthago como fiziessen contra los romanos”
Author: Aengus Ward
Welcome to Transcribe Estoria!
Today, we launch the signup process at our research and public engagement project Transcribe Estoria. From today, you can sign up to explore the world of medieval manuscripts, and Alfonso el Sabio’s great history of Spain, the Estoria de Espanna, composed around the year 1270. On the project website, you will have access to a … Continue reading “Welcome to Transcribe Estoria!”
September Update
The launch and conference in December will soon be upon us, and the Estoria team has been hard at work on both the edition and our Impact activities. The HRI in Sheffield has begun to produce our exhibition and teaching materials. A mockup of the opening page currently (but not for long) looks like this: … Continue reading “September Update”
Brief Update and welcome to Lauren, our newest team member
Although we have been a little quiet of late, work has been continuing at fever pitch on the Estoria project. The launch date of 15th December is fast approaching… The Impact activities are now in full swing. Enrique is working hard on preparing the digital exhibition and teaching materials. This week we hope to have … Continue reading “Brief Update and welcome to Lauren, our newest team member”
Project Update: April 2016
There’s lots going on here at the EDIT project and it’s about time we gave you a little update. We have finished or almost finished all of the witnesses we are going to be transcribing. Aengus has been busily preparing the collation and Zeth has made a regularisation tool that Christian and I will be … Continue reading “Project Update: April 2016”
¡Feliz Navidad!
A very happy Christmas to all. We have a busy final year of the project coming up and we’ll be back in touch in the New Year with some further exciting news from the AHRC. Aengus
III EDiT Colloquium/II Jornadas de Historiografía/Historia de la Lengua
Our third colloquium took place at the Universidad de Sevilla in collaboration with our wonderful colleagues from the Historia15 project between the 23rd and 25th of November 2015. It proved to be a marvellous week of intellectual exchange which will live long in the memory. Day 1 saw the inauguration in the presence of the … Continue reading “III EDiT Colloquium/II Jornadas de Historiografía/Historia de la Lengua”
Mesa Redonda: 11/11/15
The Estoria de Espanna Digital project will hold a round table next week, details as follows: Enrique Jerez Cabrero, “La sabiduría de Alfonso el Sabio: aspectos sapienciales de la Estoria de España” Christian Kusi Obodum, “‘Aquella mala secta’: el profeta Mahoma en la Estoria de Espanna” Javier Sebastián “La “tiranía” económica de la ciudad de … Continue reading “Mesa Redonda: 11/11/15”
Revised transcription Guidelines and preparation course
In advance of the colloquium at Magdalen College Oxford, we have published a revised set of Transcription Guidelines for the project, which can be found here. Polly and Christian have now finished the training course for transcribing for the Estoria project (with thanks to Enrique, Alicia and Marine for help with the translations).
Building the textual community
While working on the Estoria project and producing its digital outputs, I hope a side effect is that we can add to the general infrastructure of the ‘textual community’, and in particular the Birmingham and Saskatchewan implementations of that. I wrote a rather longer post here about how the technology of different projects could work … Continue reading “Building the textual community”