Computers and Old English Concordances: Conference Proceedings, 1969, Title Page (Kalil)

Computers and Old English Concordances: Conference Proceedings, 1969, Title Page (Kalil)

"The earliest published plans for the Dictionary are the transcripts of a conference held in Toronto on 21-22 March 1969; these were published as Computers and Old English concordances, and while concordances were one of the two main topics of discussion, the other was “an exploration of the possibilities for beginning work on a large-scale Old English dictionary.”2 As well as being an important record for historians of computing in the humanities, this volume notes several issues that would arise again and again throughout the next forty years of the Dictionary of Old English Project, the consideration of which, in 1969, would have far-reaching consequences. These included basing the Dictionary on a digital corpus, the use of editions or manuscripts for this corpus, problems in lemmatization, and the decision to produce the Dictionary in a digital environment" (Peter A. Stokes, "The Digital Dictionary," Florilegium, vol. 26 (2009): 37-65, p. 38). The volume shows the Dictionary of Old English's emblem, the wyrm, based on a ninth-century sculpted creature on a cross-shaft fragment from Wamphray, Dumfriesshire (Cameron et al, p. 2; see also https://canmore.org.uk/site/319260/wamphray-church).

Angus Cameron, Roberta Frank, and John Leyerle (editors)

University of Toronto Press

1970

University of Toronto Press

Book

English

Toronto