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Sometimes the smallest comment someone makes just sticks with you. This is true for me with a comment I remember Aengus making back when I was a second year undergraduate in his Spanish intermediate linguistics class. He said something about not realising what you don’t know until you try to teach it to someone else. … Continue reading “Musings on yesterday’s Transcription Jamboree”

The new academic year is here and in full swing at Estoria HQ, and is promising to be even busier and more exciting than last year. Hold onto your hats. We have started to get dates sorted for various talks we will be giving and postgraduate workshops we will be running over the coming months. … Continue reading “A new academic year”

CLEMT Symposium 24th July 2014, Birmingham Word of our digital edition of Alfonso X’s Estoria continues to spread. This time the Estoria project were amongst Early-moderninsts from the English department at UoB. We shared our vision for a comprehensive set of tools for exploring manuscript culture in Late Medieval period, explaining the application of xml for … Continue reading “Spreading the word…”

As always there are exciting developments over here at EDIT HQ. We are making great progress with the transcribing and checking of the manuscripts. Both E1 and E2 are well on their way to being transcribed, and proof-reading has started, and transcription work has already been started on T and Q. The technical side of … Continue reading “EDIT meets E-Learning”

Honorary EDiT team member Alicia Montero Málaga will be presenting her paper “Urban elites and aristocracy in Castile at the end of the Middle Ages. New perspectives of analysis.” When? Wednesday 25th June 2014 at 11.00am Where? University of Birmingham, ERI Building, Room G54 Please come along to the next exciting Estoria event. All welcome.

The EDiT team have been very busy recently, now that conference season is well upon us. Bárbara has been shaking her Digital Humanities tail-feathers at a conference in Mexico City. Christian, Alicia and I have been promoting the project like nobody’s business at the EMREM Birmingham PG symposium last week. I have been to the … Continue reading “Estoria team members continue globe trotting”

So our first colloquium has been and gone. Over all it was a very successful and enjoyable event, even though we do say so ourselves, and we had some pleasing feedback from our guests. It was a great opportunity to show off all the things we have been doing and using so far, such as … Continue reading “Return to EDIT HQ”

Thankfully, despite the 442 views we got on Facebook this week, the whole EDIT team have survived ‘hug a medievalist day’ on Monday without too many PDAs as would be seemly for a project based in Britain. Good job really, since the very first annual EDIT colloquium is just around the corner. As you can … Continue reading “Time to Colloquium = 7 days and counting”

Christian and I spent the morning tagging along with Aengus’s second year medievalists in the university’s special collections library, the Cadbury Research Library. Despite the name there was unfortunately no chocolate to be eaten, but instead there were other goodies for us to get our teeth into. We looked at a couple of medieval Books … Continue reading “Too much excitement for a Tuesday morning”