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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.

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…

The entrance to the Dictionary of Old English: abandon eal hyht, you who enter here.

Antonette diPaolo Healey and Alex Fleck

The main workroom at the Dictionary of Old English. This office houses the DOE's drafting editors and the DOE's library of editions, reference works, and manuscript facsimiles.