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David and Ian McDougall are drafting editors at The Dictionary of Old English. As they compose word definitions, they consult the entire Old English corpus for uses of their headword; they look at manuscript facsimiles; they trace parallels and…

UNIVAC 1100 (James D. Spain, "Origins of the Computer Simulation Program in Biology at Michigan Tech," Spring 2012, http://blogs.mtu.edu/biological/2012/03/origins-of-the-computer-simulation-program-in-biology-at-michigan-tech/) While digitizing…

Digitizing the Old English Corpus "In general, optically scanned systems are labor-efficient but introduce a proportion of machine errors, while human entry systems are labor-intensive, and vary in their accuracy depending on the people themsleves. …

The DOE's research collection includes a reference library of dictionaries; at least one copy of each known Old English text; semantic and etymological studies of Old English words; facsimiles of Old English and Latin manuscripts from Anglo-Saxon…

Each word's file contains the word's definition illustrated by slips with citations from the DOE Corpus. The paper file is an essential component of the DOE's workflow.

Graduate assistants check citation slips against manuscript facsimiles.

Kasandra Castle, graduate research assistant at the Dictionary of Old English, checks citations against manuscript facsimiles.

"This eighth fascicle of the Dictionary of Old English, the letter G, consists of 1,319 headwords in 3,454 pages, on microfiche. The material on which G is based represents a fresh look at all surviving Old English (except some multiple copies of…

"The fifth fascicle of the Dictionary of Old English, the letter A, consists of 1,505 headwords in 2,331 pages on microfiche. The material on which A is based represents a fresh look at all surviving Old English (except multiple copies of texts), an…