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Transcription maximized; expense Minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
(Oxford University Press, 2012-03-28)
This article discusses the crowdsourced manuscript transcription project Transcribe Bentham, and how it will impact upon long-established editorial practices at the Bentham Project, University College London, which is ...
A networks-science investigation into the epic poems of Ossian
(WorldScientific Open Access, 2016-10-21)
In 1760 James Macpherson published the first volume of a series of epic poems which
he claimed to have translated into English from ancient Scottish-Gaelic sources.
The poems, which purported to have been composed by a ...
Pagan angels and a moral law: Byron and Moore's blasphemous publications
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-01)
Lord Byron's Cain and Thomas Moore's The Loves of the Angels are linked by critical accusations of blasphemy which threatened their legal and commercial integrity. Comparing the critical and legal reception of the two works ...
Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson's Ossian
(2014)
Ossian Online is a
project which will harness social media and new reading technologies to
crowdsource annotations to the sequence of eighteenth-century works known
collectively as the Ossian poems. The
project will ...
For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson's Ossian
(2014)
The argument presented by a
scholarly edition can usually be traced to the vision of a single editor or a
very small group of editors. But is
it possible or even desirable for an edition to present multiple, perhaps
competing, ...
The Contraband of Hibernia
(2013)
In the early 1980s, Anthony Cronin identified Thomas Moore as
"the necessary national bard" suggesting that his work was crucial
to the coherent articulation of Irish national identity in the early nineteenth
century. ...
Poetry by the Book, Poetry by Numbers
(2013)
The mass digitisation of our literary
heritage has resulted in both possibilities and problems for the literary
scholar. With the availability large-scale literary corpora comes the implicit
perception that digital ...
Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies
(2015)
Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the
literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s
Ossian poems. Many
revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ...
Manuscript Transcription: the Habits of Crowds
(2013)
Paper describes author's involvement in Transcribe Bentham, a project established to crowdsource transcriptions of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, and reflects more generally on the issues at stake in crowdsourcing ...
Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition : Ossian Online
(2014)
James Macpherson s Ossian
poems were the international sensation of the eighteenth-century. First
published in 1760, Macpherson s work caused a literary furore. Ostensibly
translations from Gaelic manuscripts, the poems ...