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'Nation Words' in the OE Corpus (with optional Omeka assignment)
Classwork: students learn how to use DOE and DOE Corpus to search for 'nation-words', thinking about aspects such as date (where it is possible to date the OE text) and type of document (historical, homily, charter, private will) (1 hour) Optional…
Antonette diPaolo Healey
Antonette diPaolo Healey at the Dictionary of Old English, May 2014
Beowulf on Scantron
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. …
Checking citation slips against manuscript facsimile
Graduate assistants check citation slips against manuscript facsimiles.
Dictionary of Old English - Parts of an Entry
How to navigate the parts of a DOE entry.
Dictionary of Old English & Dictionary of Old English Corpus for Historians
How to use the DOE and the Corpus to mine primary texts and research history, law, medicine--even without a background in Old English
Dictionary of Old English Basic Searches
How to use the Dictionary of Old English to look up Old English and Modern English words.
Dictionary of Old English Corpus Basic Search
How to perform basic DOE Corpus searches finding one word in the corpus, restricting searches to one text or one class of texts, accessing bibliographical information for citations, and including compounds and inflected forms in searches.