AHRC/IRC #DigitalHumanities project on #Gaelic and #Irish folktales and their deep histories @celtscotued @gaois_ie @bealoideasucd @durham_uni @IUFolkEthno
Agallamh le @UilleamUan mu dheidhinn ar n-obrach anns an iris, Scottish Studies @EdinburghUni
Dr Virginia Blankenhorn interviews Prof Will Lamb in the new edition of Scottish Studies - about the Decoding Hidden Heritages project #gaelic#AI#folklore
https://t.co/g7SbiJMbeZ
An important, new blog from Catherine Banks, who worked as a digitiser on the DHH project for many months. Catherine examines the exclusion of women's names in @EU_SSSA and how to recover them #feminism#archives@melissaterras
https://t.co/Sd4emZyJ2b
Blog ùr, cudromach bho Chatherine Banks, a bha ag obair dhuinn mar neach-digiteachaidh. Tha i a-mach air femineachas agus mar a bha boireannaich gan cleith ann an obair nan tasg-lann anns an fhicheadamh linn #feminism#archives
https://t.co/Sd4emZyJ2b
#ICASUV23 Their talk presents "Decoding Hidden Heritages of Gaelic Narrative" @DualchasCeilte.
The twofold objective of digitising for access & to be able to analyse the corpus of folklores resonates with a lot of such initiatives, & it's great to see it happen at this scale.
📢📢Job opportunity working with the School of Scottish Studies Archives @EU_SSSA and @LLCatEdinburgh! We seek a Digitisation and Data Entry Technician to work on the @DualchasCeilte project. Please circulate widely!! 📢📢 #Folklore#Scots#Gaelic
https://t.co/1wj5M0GQ3u
📢📢Job Klaxon! Seeking a postdoc research fellow for a 15-month post. Background in #NLP, #informatics, #DH or #machinelearning. Involves annotating, analysing & text-mining a huge corpus of #Irish and #Gaelic folklore. Please spread the word! 📢📢
https://t.co/vK1ER3nDzD
Looking for some inspiration on this #WritingWednesday? We're sharing examples of index cards from the @EU_SSSA tale archive over on our blog. All thanks to @melissaterras for the idea to use them as writing prompts! https://t.co/pThvCpR04k
I'm delighted to share that I've just signed an agreement to edit the Review of Scottish Culture in a new, dynamic, online format. More early in '23, including a call for contributions to the first themed issue @EU_SSSA@TobarDualchais@ei_folklore@AFSNewFolklore @TaibhsearCol
Mìle taing do Transkribus agus do @akerbeltzalba airson ar cur chun na co-farpais seo. Bhuannaich sinn!
Many thanks to Transkribus for selecting us amongst the winners of this competition - and to Michael Bauer for entering us 🙌🙌🙌 https://t.co/1xbDeYnXWR
Working in @Transkribus on the transcript of a #Gaelic story about two deer collected by Lady Evelyn Stewart, a pioneering fieldworker, in 1891. #MyTranskribusStory
Working in @Transkribus on the transcript of a #Gaelic story about two deer collected by Lady Evelyn Stewart, a pioneering fieldworker, in 1891. #MyTranskribusStory
For #ScottishMuseumsDay, our latest blog post takes a look at stories of happiness from @EU_SSSA and the different ways happiness can present itself: https://t.co/Vzs3Itr5Tz
#MuseumofHappiness
not for the faint-hearted, but a great tale, and resource A German version from the brothers Grimm is here, but without cats (lots of other critters instead) https://t.co/O7pmaDH1Mk
Today's blog makes a nod to #InternationalCatDay2022 however, it is far from cute and fluffy!
'Sùil a Sporan agus Sùil a Dia' as told by Donald Alasdair Johnson (1889-1978), from South Uist https://t.co/4drNzgKD1X
If you're in need of a giggle, check out this gem that just resurfaced in the Tale Archive at the SSSA, about contributor Angus MacMillan, who was apparently very enthusiastic about telling stories!
#oralhistory#scottishstorytellers