The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub

Phase 1 of the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub project (2002-2004), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board under its Resource Enhancement Scheme, had the following aims and objectives:

to open up for on-line access significant resources that will advance research into the languages and society of medieval Britain and support university courses across a wide areas of medieval studies;

to develop, evaluate, deploy and propagate XML-based technologies that will be of service in many areas of Humanities computing worlwide.

More specifically, the award has funded

the conversion to TEI-conformant XML of the existing Word files containing the revised letters A to E of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary and their publication on-line (access limited pending publication of the print version, due 2005-2006)

Digitisation of the corpus of sources and a body of scholarly literature on Anglo-Norman topics, employing TEI-conformant XML markup, to enable maximum on-line accessibility of the digital resources, including interlinking of cited sources with their full-text versions.

Phase 2 of the Project (2004-2007) adds the digitisation, also by conversion from existing Word files, of letters F-Z of the first edition of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary to allow them to be accessed on-line along with the revised A-E. It also allows for a significant extension of the digitisation of source materials and scholarly papers.

The Revision of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary F-H project (2003-2007) funded by a Major Research Award of the Arts and Humanities Research Board had as its main aim

To revise comprehensively the Anglo-Norman Dictionary (London: MHRA, 1977-1992; = AND1), letters F to H, which currently occupy pp. 291-358 of the first edition, and to make the outcome freely available on line.

The progressive increase in the texts cited during AND1, and the additions since, mean that the revision of F-H will draw on almost 200 texts in addition to the 350 used for the corresponding part of AND1. F-H is likely to be approximately three times the size of the first edition. Much of the new material comes from registers of Anglo-Norman which played a limited role in he corresponding section of AND1. The major expansion is in the fields of administrative, scientific, and legal texts.

Since then, the Project has received further AHRC funding, for the Revision of I-M (2007-12). Currently (June 2010) I-K have been published and we will shortly be putting L on line.