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

Graduate assistants check citation slips against manuscript facsimiles.

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.

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…

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. …

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…

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…

Image created with Wordle. Lemmatization is the process through which lexicographers assign word forms to a certain headword. For example, Modern English word forms such as burn, burns, burning, and burned all belong to the word to burn. Old English…

The DOE has its own library of editions and facsimiles of Old English texts and manuscripts, as well as an extensive collection of scholarly materials. Also in the collection, courage in desperate straits: "Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the…