Bytes, Words, Texts: The Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its Text-Base

This paper summarizes how the Anglo-Norman Dictionary project has developed from an originally paper-based and print dictionary, to a fully digital, freely available online resource, comprising not only the Dictionary itself, but a substantial text-base in the same XML format as the Dictionary. The...

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Main Author: David Trotter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2012-02-01
Series:Digital Medievalist
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Online Access:https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/35
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Digital Medievalist
Dictionaries
Anglo-Norman
Text-bases
Encoding
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
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title Bytes, Words, Texts: The Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its Text-Base
title_short Bytes, Words, Texts: The Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its Text-Base
title_full Bytes, Words, Texts: The Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its Text-Base
title_fullStr Bytes, Words, Texts: The Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its Text-Base
title_full_unstemmed Bytes, Words, Texts: The Anglo-Norman Dictionary and its Text-Base
title_sort bytes, words, texts: the anglo-norman dictionary and its text-base
publisher Open Library of Humanities
series Digital Medievalist
issn 1715-0736
publishDate 2012-02-01
description This paper summarizes how the Anglo-Norman Dictionary project has developed from an originally paper-based and print dictionary, to a fully digital, freely available online resource, comprising not only the Dictionary itself, but a substantial text-base in the same XML format as the Dictionary. The paper reviews the history of the Dictionary; the principles of structured encoding; the relationship between the citations (attestations) in the Dictionary, as instances of 'parole', and the broader Anglo-Norman language (the langue); and the detailed encoding of entries.
topic Dictionaries
Anglo-Norman
Text-bases
Encoding
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
url https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/35
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