Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue

The Digital Catalogue documents, visually and textually, the first ten years of Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral, outdoor practice. It replicates Goldsworthy's Slide Cabinet Index, and includes previously unpublished material from Goldsworthy's Sketchbook Diaries. Find out more

Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus

The Metaphor Map of English shows the metaphorical links which have been identified between different areas of meaning. These links can be from the Anglo-Saxon period right up to the present day so the map covers 1300 years of the English language. Find out more

Scots Syntax Atlas

The Scots Syntax Atlas presents the results of over 100,000+ acceptability judgments from over 500 speakers on over 250 morphosyntactic phenomena. The Atlas also contains a text-to-sound aligned corpus of spoken data totalling 275 hours and over 3 million words. Find out more

Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide

Featuring more than 1000 Burns Suppers across all 7 continents and in 75 countries around the world, this resource seeks to record, illustrate, and offer new insights into the ways in which the tradition of the Burns Supper continues to be maintained, adapted and reimagined in the 21^st century. Find out more

Seeing speech

The resource provides ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) and lip video of speech, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) video of speech, and 2D midsagittal head animations based on MRI and UTI data. Find out more

The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource

The resource includes historical research for all Berwickshire place-names on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map, including more than 1,600 place-names and 7,000 historical forms presented via a series of interactive maps. Find out more

The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné

The online catalogue includes some 550 oil paintings and over 1700 works on paper dating from ca 1850 to 1903. The evolution of each painting from sketch to final oil is described and illustrated. Find out more

Books and Borrowing: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers, 1750-1830

Books and Borrowing uncovers and reinterprets the history of reading in Scotland in the period 1750 to 1830 through 144,000 borrowing records across 18 libraries. Find out more

Bess of Hardwick's Letters

Bess of Hardwick's Letters brings together, for the first time, the remarkable letters written to and from Bess of Hardwick (c.1521/2 or 1527-1608), one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures. Find out more

The Historical Thesaurus of English

The University of Glasgow’s Historical Thesaurus of English is a unique resource charting the development of meaning in the huge and varied vocabulary of English. It consists of almost every recorded word in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, all arranged into detailed hierarchies of meaning. Find out more

Week Beginning 18th March 2024

Posted on25th March 202425th March 2024Authorbaitken

I was off sick from Tuesday to Thursday this week having caught some sort of virus that laid me low. However, on Monday I managed to complete the migration of all 156 poems in the Anthology of 16th and Early 17th Century Scots Poetry from ancient HTML to TEI XML. It’s something I’ve been working on since the New Year and it’s great to have finally completed it. The site is not yet live, though, as I need to wait until I receive feedback from the project PI. I’ll probably need to update and expand the information in the TEI header of each poem and I’d also like to make the XML files of the poems available as a downloadable ZIP file from the website, ideally under a Creative Commons license to enable researchers to reuse the data. I’ll also need to put in redirects from the old URLs, plus the PI has some updates to the poems and their glosses that I will need to incorporate. But until I hear back from him I can’t do anything else for the resource.

When I returned to work on Friday I had an update to the Anglo-Norman Dictionary waiting for me to process. The editor Geert had updated all entries beginning with ‘Y’, plus a handful of other related entries and I needed to run my scripts to delete the existing entries and replace them with the new versions. Thankfully all went smoothly.

I then moved onto a significant reworking of the Speech Star website (one of two websites for the project and the one that has not yet been officially launched). Previously this website featured access to several databases of ultrasound video files but the new update is going to shift the emphasis to a more focussed set animation video files, plus incorporating the IPA and extIPA charts and associated videos. There’s a lot to get through in this update and by the end of the day I had implemented only a part of it so I’ll continue with this next week.