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Young Reference has the following Middle English dictionaries:
Robert E. Lewis, etc. Middle English Dictionary (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952-).
PE679 .M54 (Also available online under UK's Electronic Resources)
Francis Henry Stratmann. A Middle-English dictionary, containing words used by English writers from the twelfth to the fifteenth century (Oxford: Clarendon, 1891).
PE 675 .S7
Also available in Young Reference:
A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, by members of the Middle English Group of the Modern Language Association of America. (New Haven, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967-).
PR255 .M3
The language of Middle English literature, David Burnley and Matsuji Tajima (Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 1994).
Z2012 .B925 1994 [Young Reference]
The Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol. II: 1066-1476, ed. Norman Blake (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992).
PE1072 .C36 1992 [4th floor stacks]
Studies in the Age of Chaucer (SAC). Norman, Okla.: New Chaucer Society, University of Oklahoma, c1979- ).
PR1901 .S88 [3rd floor Periodicals]
The Essential Chaucer. A friendly interface to a selective, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies by Mark Allen and John H. Fisher, available through the University of Texas at San Antonio.
The Hengwrt Manuscript, (Hg), National Library of Wales Peniarth 392D, Aberystwyth, Wales.
The Ellesmere Manuscript, (El), formerly Lord Ellesmere's, now Henry E. Huntington Library MS. El.26C.9, San Marino, California. The Lansdowne Manuscript, (La), British Library MS. Lansdowne 851, London.ONLINE RESOURCES
Luminarium: Chaucer
Online texts, resources, essays and articles.
Chaucer Metapage
Gateway that organizes and provides navigation aides for Chaucer resources on the WWW.
The Essential Chaucer. A friendly interface to a selective, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies by Mark Allen and John H. Fisher, available through the University of Texas at San Antonio.
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
An encyclopedic resource, written and maintained by medieval scholars.
The New Chaucer Society
A forum for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age, the Society organizes biennial international congresses of Chaucerians and publishes the annual Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
Pronunciation, Grammar, and Vocabulary
An introduction to Chaucer's English with audio files.
A Glossarial DataBase of Middle English
Includes names, but currently limited to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Middle English Compendium:
(Comprehensive definitions, texts, complex search facilities, and bibliography)
(Note: For remote "proxy" access use your last name as the ID and your 13-digit library barcode number as the password. For additional instructions see Off-Campus Access Instructions).
The Medieval Review
Reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies.
- Annotated Bibliography: Key Works in the Theory of Textual Editing
- Committee on Scholarly Editions. Modern Language Association. Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions, 2002.
- Greetham, D. C. Scholarly Editing: A Guide to Research. New York: Modern Language Association, 1995.
- McGann, Jerome. Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies After the World Wide Web. Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001.
- Unsworth, John. Reconsidering and Revising the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions' Guidelines for Scholarly Editions. New Directions for Digital Textuality: 2001 Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship.
- Oxford University Computing Services, Guide to Digital Resources for the Humanities, by Frances Condron, Michael Fraser, and Stuart Sutherland with an Introduction by Marilyn Deegan (West Virginia University Press, 2001)
- Association for Computers and the Humanities
- Computers and the Humanities: The Official Journal of the ACH (UK call no. Z699.5.H8 C65)
- The Humbul Humanities Hub "aims to be UK (the United Kingdom) higher and further education's first choice for accessing online humanities resources."
- McGann, Jerome. "Literary and Cultural Studies in a Quantum World" (pdf file). Public Lecture Webcast of the first Richard W. Lyman Award from the National Humanities Center.
- Unsworth, John. "What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?"
- McCarty, Willard. "A Note on Terminology: Humanities Computing or Humanistic Informatics?" 1999.
- Research in Computing for Humanities (RCH), University of Kentucky.
- Bouché, Nicole. Digitization for Scholarly Use: The Boswell Papers Project at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999.
- Franziska Frey, Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards. RLG DigiNews Vol. 1, Issue 3, 1997.
- Institute for Learning and Research Technology. University of Bristol and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI).
- Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Cornell: Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, 2000 (copies available in RCH office, Young 351).
- Kenney, Anne R., Oya Y. Rieger, and Richard Entlich. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial. Cornell: Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, 2000.
- Kenney, Anne R., Oya Y. Rieger, et al. version 1.0. Report of the Digital Preservation Policy Working Group on Establishing a Central Depository for Preserving Digital Image Collections. Part 1: Responsibilities of Transferee. Cornell: Cornell University Library, 2001.
- Kirschenbaum, Matt. LOOKSEE: Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing.
- Research Library Group-Digital Library Federation (RLG-DLF). Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging. Washington DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000.
- Sitts, Maxine K., ed. Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000.
SOFTWARE & TOOLS
- ImageMagick
- Irfanview
- Video Workshop: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (interactive tutorial on CDRom, three copies available in RCH office, Young 351)
Electronic Texts / Text Encoding
- Landow, George. Hypertext, Scholarly Annotation, and the Electronic Edition (Brown University).
- Morrison, Alan, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice. Oxford: Oxford Text Archive, 1999.
- TEI Lite: An Introduction to Text Encoding for Interchange, Lou Burnard and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, June 1995, revised May 2002.
- TEI Consortium. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
- TEI P4. The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines (June 2002).
- Searchable TEI Guidelines.
- Model Editions Partnership (MEP): Historical Editions in the Digital Age
- Café con Leche: XML News and Resources
- Cover, Robin, managing editor. The XML Cover Pages.
- W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- XML From the Inside Out
SOFTWARE AND TOOLS
- Garshol, Lars Marius. Free XML Tools and Software.
- NoteTab (available on all RCH lab computers)
- Scholarly Technology Group (STG), Brown University. STG XML Validator.
- TEI Consortium. TEI Software Page.
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- A Gentle Introduction to XML. Text Encoding Initiative. The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines.
- Bray, Tim, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and Eva Maler, eds. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation. 6 October 2000.
- Flynn, Peter, ed. The XML FAQ, v. 3.01. University College, Cork, Ireland (14 Jan 2003).
- Harold, Elliotte Rusty. Introduction to XML. Last modified August 2001.
- Møller, Anders and Michael I. Schwartzbach. The XML Revolution: Technologies for the Future Web. BRICS, University of Aarhus. Revised December 2001.
- XML Tutorial (at W3Schools)
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) and XSL Transformations (XSLT)
- Adler, Sharon et al., eds. Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0, W3C Recommendation. October 2001.
- Clark, James. ed. XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0, W3C Recommendation. 16 November 1999.
- Cover, Robin. The XML Cover Pages: Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), last modified August 2003.
- Ducharme, Bob. Using the W3C XSLT Specification, June 2001.
- Harold, Elliotte Rusty. Chapter 17 of the XML Bible, Second Edition : XSL Transformations. Last modified December 2001.
- Pawson, David. XSL FAQ, v. 5.11, December 2001.
- Tennison, Jeni. Jeni's XSLT Pages.
- Walsh, Norman. XSL Tutorial, June 2001.
- XSL Tutorial (at W3Schools)
- XSLT Tutorial at XFront (download), updated July 2003.
- Clark, James and Steve DeRose, eds. XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0, W3C Recommendation. 16 November 1999.
- Nic, Miroslav and Jiri Jirat. XPath Tutorial.
- XPath Tutorial (at w3Schools).
- Cover, Robin. The XML Cover Pages: XML Schemas, updated August 2003.
- Fallside, David C., ed. XML Schema Part 0: Primer, W3C Recommendation. 2 May 2001.
- van der Vlist, Eric. Using W3C XML Schema: Part I.
- van der Vlist, Eric. Using W3C XML Schema: Part II.
- van der Vlist, Eric. Comparing XML Schema Languages.
- XML Schema FAQ
- XML Schema Tutorial at W3Schools
- XML Schema Tutorial at XFront (download), updated January 2003)
- DeRose, Steve, Eve Maler, and David Orchard, eds. XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0, W3C Recommendation. 27 June 2001.
- Jirat, Jiri. XLink Reference. 2000.
- Lowe, David and Eric Wilde. Improving Web Linking Using XLink. First Open Publish Conference. Sydney, Australia. July 30, 2001 - August 02, 2001.
- McLaughlin, Brett. How to Use XLink with XML. IBM developerWorks. July 2001.
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
- Nic, Miroslav. XHTML 1.0 Reference with Examples.
- Pemberton, Steven et al, eds. XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language: A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0, W3C Recommendation. 26 January 2000.
- Richmond, Alan. WDVL: Introduction to XHTML, with eXamples, February 2000.
- W3Schools XHTML Tutorial
SOFTWARE AND TOOLS
- World Wide Web Consortium. HTML Tidy. August 2000.
- World Wide Web Consortium. W3C HTML Validation Service.
Electronic Character Standards
- IBM. IBM's Ease of Use Website.
- Cognetics Corporation. Logical User Centered Interaction Design (LUCID) Framework.
- Nowviskie, Bethany. Interfacing the Edition. University of Virginia, April 2000.
- Bourret, Ronald. XML and Databases, updated July 2003.
- Bourret, Ronald. XML Database Products, updated August 2003.
- Meier, Wolfgang. eXist: Open Source XML Database.
- Firebird Open Source Database
- MySQL Open Source Database
- Open Source Database Benchmark
Metadata and Digital Preservation
- Baca, Murtha, ed. Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2000.
- Beckett, Dave. Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide, last modified August 2003.
- The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 2003.
- Duval, Eric, and Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, and Stuart L. Weibel, "Metadata Principles and Practicalities," DLib Magazine, April 2002.
- Hirtle, Peter, assoc. ed. "Digital Paleography," Editorial. D-Lib Magazine, April 2000.
- Morrison, Alan, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander, "Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice," Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Guides to Good Practice
- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Auugst [sic] 2003.
- Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
- Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art, OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata, January 2001.
- PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies), OCLC Research, Working Group II: Implementation Strategies, June 2003.
Intellectual Property and Copyright
- ARL: Association of Research Libraries, Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Status and Analysis
- NINCH: National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. Copyright Town Meetings, "bringing the basic facts about copyright law and recent copyright issues to wide audiences in the educational and cultural communities."
- Lutzker, Arnold P., Esq. Primer on the Digital Millenium: What the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act Mean for the Library Community. Lutzker & Lutzker LLP, Washington, DC. Last modified March 1999.
- Mintzer, Fred, Jeffrey Lotspiech, Norishige Morimoto. Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Digital Watermarking. D-Lib Magazine, December 1997.
- Seville, Catherine and Ellis Weinberger. Intellectual Property Rights lessons from the CEDARS project for Digital Preservation. Presentation to the CEDARS Conference, York, 8 December 2000.
- U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
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