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”
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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!”
Transcribe Estoria
Those who have been following us on Facebook or Twitter might have seen our recent posts about Transcribe Estoria. This is our new crowdsourcing project which will involve as many people as possible in transcribing manuscripts of the Estoria de Espanna. We are working hard in the background getting everything ready for our autumn … Continue reading “Transcribe Estoria”
We’re back!
Guess what folks – we are back! We have not been sleeping since our 2017 exhibition but rather busily working hard on the next phase of the Estoria project. Watch this space for more news. Exciting developments are on their way this autumn.
The conference is this week!
The final conference is almost here, friends and colleagues from afar are already on the plane, those based closer to Birmingham will be arriving tomorrow and Tuesday morning, and although we can hardly believe it ourselves, the edition is ready to launch. You read that correctly. I know! I did wonder many times whether I was … Continue reading “The conference is this week!”
The Edition launch is fast approaching!
There is not long to go until we launch our digital edition of the Estoria de Espanna, which we have been working on for the best part of four years now, and which Aengus was preparing and envisioning for many years before that. So what’s going on as we make the last few tweaks and … Continue reading “The Edition launch is fast approaching!”
October Update
Things are starting to get really busy here at Estoria Towers. We are now within two months of launching our digital edition, and four years of work, plus countless years of preparation put in by Aengus before the start of the project, are all coming to fruition. Enrique has been working really hard on both … Continue reading “October Update”
Register for the 4th Annual Estoria de Espanna Digital Project Colloquium
You can now register for the 4th Annual Estoria de Espanna Digital Project Colloquium. Please follow this link to register. Register by 4th November 2016 to join us at the conference dinner. estoria-de-espanna-digital-project-poster-2
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”
Preparing the reader’s edition and planning the colloquium
August has been as busy as ever here at Estoria Towers, especially as we are now moving into the last semester of the project before the launch of the digital edition – yes really! Everyone is working on their own part of the project. Aengus is busy collating the witnesses ready for the reader’s edition, … Continue reading “Preparing the reader’s edition and planning the colloquium”