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• Dr. Sara L. Uckelman

uckelman@uni-heidelberg.de

Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg

MAD | HD 3–4 April 2014

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Content

All names recorded in sources written between 600 and 1600, minus: References to historical/non-contemporary people, and to names occurring

• nly in fictional literature or poetry.

Goal: available on the internet, hopefully for free (i.e., without subscription) fully searchable as well as browsable. updatable. with complete citations for all entries in so far as possible. exemplary of a wide range of spellings, dates, and usages.

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Motivation

Recently there has been significant interest in compiling word dictionaries

• f various medieval languages:

Middle English Dictionary the TLFi project (Old French) Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources Anglo-Norman Dictionary Dictionary of the Scots Language Dictionnaire Étymologique de l’Ancien Français These dictionaries, however, do not include personal names, in their citations, except incidentally (cf., e.g., personal names where the bynames are used as attestations of ME words in the MED).

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Audiences

Linguists and philologists Historians Genealogists Re-enactors Parents

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Technical

Right now, the Dictionary data is stored in individual XML files in a git

• repository. We are working on building an eXist-db app, for querying and

browsing via a web interface, into which the XML files will be imported. The Dictionary will be online at http://www.dmnes.org (not yet available).

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Prototype

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Prototype

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Prototype

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Stay informed, Get involved

You can follow the Dictionary’s progress via our blog and on Facebook: http://dmnes.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/thedmnes Want to help out? We’re looking for people with skills in: XML, XQuery writing TEI-compliant XML schemata eXist-db web development & design Contact Sara at sara.uckelman@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de.

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