tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734923711451157862024-03-05T14:38:47.649-08:00Digitising experiences of migrationThe development of interconnected letter collections
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">AHRC project reference: AH/K006231/1 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>[April 2013 - June 2014; PROJECT NOW COMPLETED]</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The purpose of this blog is to disseminate information and activities relating to an AHRC research networking project entitled 'Digitising experiences of migration: the development of interconnected letter collections'.<span style="font-size: small;"> The project ran from April 2013 to June 2014; a summary of the project aims<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>can be found <a href="http://lettersofmigration.blogspot.fr/p/project-overview.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span> Two areas we were particularly interested in exploring for this project were the use of markup for capturing and organising metadata relating to historical emigrant letter collections and using digital tools to search and visualise that metadata. See the '<a href="http://lettersofmigration.blogspot.fr/p/markup.html" target="_blank">Markup</a>' and '<a href="http://lettersofmigration.blogspot.fr/p/visualisation-tools.html" target="_blank">Visualisation tools</a>' pages of this blog for more on this. For a general overview of the project see Moreton, O'Leary and O'Sullivan (2014) and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amador-Moreno et. al. (2016)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> - full references are listed below. Possible templates for capturing information about emigrant letters, the participants involved in the act of communication and their locations can be found in chapters five and six of Moreton (2016). Details of the TEI markup schema for emigrant letters, created by <a href="http://muwi-detmold-paderborn.de/unser-team/stadler.html" target="_blank">Peter Stadler</a> and his team, can be found on <a href="https://github.com/peterstadler/Emigrant-Letters" target="_blank">GitHub</a>. See, also, the <a href="http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/SIG:Correspondence" target="_blank">TEI correspondence wiki</a> for more on using TEI to annotate letter collections.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please get in touch if you have any questions or comments regarding this project - we'd be very happy to hear from you! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/researchers/dr-emma-moreton/" target="_blank">Dr Emma Moreton</a></span><br />
Senior Lecturer<br />
Coventry University<br />
School of Humanities (HUM)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) <br />
Email: emma.moreton@coventry.ac.uk</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: yellow;"><a href="https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/hilary-nesi" target="_blank">Professor Hilary Nesi</a></span><br />
Coventry University<br />
School of Humanities (HUM)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) <br />
Email: h.nesi@coventry.ac.uk</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Relevant publications:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moreton, E.
(2016) 'Letters from America: Themes and Methods in the Study of
Irish Emigrant Correspondence'. In C-M. Bernier, J. Newman and M.
Pethers (eds.), <i>A Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing</i>. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.</span></span><br />
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Amador-Moreno, C.,
Corrigan, K. P., McCafferty, K., Moreton, E. and Waters, C. (2016)
'Irish Migration Databases as Impact Tools in the Education and Heritage
Sectors'. In K. Corrigan and A. Mearnes (eds.), <i>Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora - Volume 3: Databases for Public Engagement</i>. London: Palgrave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moreton, E. (2016) Ph.D. thesis: The emigrant letter digitised: markup and analysis. Birmingham: University of Birmingham. Available from: </span><a href="http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/6416/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/6416/</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moreton, E., O'Leary, N. and O'Sullivan, P. (2014) 'Visualising the emigrant letter'. </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revue Europ</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-indent: -18.933332443237305px;"><i>é</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ene des Migrations Internationales. Special issue: Traces of Dispersion</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. 30 (3 & 4) 49-69.</span><br />
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Relevant presentations:</span><br />
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Moreton, E. Digitising
experiences of migration: towards interconnected letter collections
[Paper presented at the 'Language and Migration: Transnational
Perspectives' seminar series, Warwick University, February 2015].</span><br />
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Moreton, E. Digitising
experiences of migration: the development of interconnected letter
collections [Paper presented at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de
l'Homme, 15 December 2014].</span><br />
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Moreton, E., Nesi, H. and
O'Leary, N. Digitising experiences of migration: the development of
interconnected letter collections [Paper presented at the Digital
Humanities Congress 2014, Sheffield University, 4-6 September 2014].</span><br />
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