Estoria de Espanna Digital : A digital critical edition of the Estoria de Espanna de Alfonso X el Sabio
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 39290858
- Type
- H - Website content
- Month
- July
- Year
- 2017
- URL
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http://estoria.bham.ac.uk
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This critical digital edition is the product of 4 years work by a team of up to eight people. It represents the generation of an extended and complex piece of research which required the co-ordination of multiple team members across three countries and the development of bespoke digital guidelines and practices. It further demonstrates the collection and analysis of a large body of material - over 2500 folios of manuscript text which represent over 270,000 lines of tagged xml text.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Product of a four year AHRC-funded research project, the Estoria de Espanna Digital is a digital critical edition of the most important medieval Castilian chronicle. It provides digital transcriptions and collations of over 3,000 double-columned medieval manuscript pages, in a variety of formats. Original research aims of overcoming the ‘printed book effect’ and bringing the text to wider scholarly and non-scholarly audiences, in creative ways that were previously impossible, could only be fulfilled in a digital environment. The research advances therefore lay, not solely in the insights about medieval textuality in general and the Estoria de Espanna in particular, but also in the methodology, for the Estoria Digital helped to interrogate the underlying principles of critical scholarly editing and aimed to revise these for the postdigital age. The research process involved the compilation of TEI5-compliant xml transcriptions of the most significant manuscripts of the Estoria; this part of the research led to the devising of, and subsequent publication of transcription guidelines which provide a basis for future digital transcription in the iberomedieval field. In parallel, the project further developed the CollateX system for the collation of medieval prose. All of the data and metadata of the project are freely available. The research also took advantage of traditional methodologies to advance knowledge and understanding of medieval Iberian historiography; it digital means of dissemination allows future scholars to develop this understanding further through the access the digital edition gives to the primary materials – manuscript text held in disparate archives.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The requirement for an abstract is waived for outputs submitted in UoA 26.
