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Workshop 3 - Cork, 25-26th March 2021: ‘Exploring texts: revealing hidden heritage'

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The third workshop organised as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council-Irish Research Council funded network: A Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World.

image with 3d visualisation of an ogham stone built into a church

Date(s): March 25, 2021 - March 26, 2021

Location: Online via zoom

Time: 13:20 - 17:30

Price: Free

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Summary

This workshop will build on the outcomes of the first two events with a focus on how digital resources have engaged a wider audience with the material and facilitated new forms of teaching language, literature and history within universities.

‘Exploring text: Revealing hidden heritage through online resources’

Workshop 3: UCC, 25^th and 26^th March 2021

Programme

Thursday, 25 March

13.20	Opening
13.30–15.30	Session 1: Online Teaching and its infrastructure Chair: Beatrix Färber Anne Marie O’Brien, DIAS – ‘Exploring Collections through Irish Script On Screen’ Kevin Murray, UCC – ‘Celtic Digital Initiative, Irish Sagas Online and the secondary digital environment’ Brendan Kane, UConn, with Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (MU), Emmet de Barra (UConn), Christina Cleary (DIAS) – ‘Exploring texts word-by-word: Léamh.org and networking the learning of Early Modern Irish’
15.00–15.30	30 min questions/discussion
15.30–16.00	30 min break
16.00–17.30	Session 2: Enhancing visibility and Impact on public engagement/self study Chair: Greg Toner Mairín MacCarron, UCC – ‘Digital Approaches for a Divided Archive: the Edgeworth family archive in the National Library of Ireland and the Bodleian Library’ Brian Ó Raghallaigh, DCU – ‘Logainm – Enhancing the public impact of the Placenames Database of Ireland’ Dennis Groenewegen, Stichting Van Hamel – ‘Mapping the sources with CODECS: some challenges and opportunities of developing a web-based project platform’
17.00–17.30	30 min discussion

Friday, 26 March

14.00–16.00	Session 3: Reaching out to communities: More public engagement Chair: David Stifter Nora White, MU – ‘Ogham in 3D and engaging digitally with our earliest writing in Irish’ Calum Cockburn, British Library – ‘Promoting The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Public Engagement in Online Environments’ Sharon Arbuthnot, SMO/Cambridge – ‘eDIL and Opportunities for Spreading the Words’
15.30–16.00	30 min discussion
16.05–16.25	Chair: Beatrix Färber Orla Murphy, UCC – General Reflections: ‘DH as Enabler’
16.25–16.40	15 min break
16.40–17.40	Session 4: Roundtable discussion: Use and experiences of digital resources in teaching Chair: Deborah Hayden Geraldine Parsons (Lecturer, University of Glasgow) Götz Keydana (Professor, Universität Göttingen) Oksana Dereza (Doctoral student and Early Career Researcher, NUI Galway) Nina Cnockaert-Guillou (Doctoral student, University of Cambridge)
17.40	Concluding remarks