Dictionary of Old English: 2002 Progress Report
The highlight of 2002 has been the development of the beta version of the CD-ROM of the Dictionary of Old English: A to F. It has recently been sent out for testing and will be issued in Spring 2003. In preparation for this, the editors completed, in the course of the year, the updating and revision of the previously published fascicles. As well, we have concentrated on writing entries for G and H and have begun writing entries for I and Y. We were sorry to lose Pauline Thompson from the editorial staff this year. She joined us in 1986, and retired from the project in May; she was replaced by Dorothy Haines. At this time, we would like to thank Professor Roberta Frank of Yale University, a member of our International Advisory Committee, for her many years of unfailing dedication as Editor of the Toronto Old English Series and the Publications of the Dictionary of Old English. Professor Andy Orchard, another member of the International Advisory Committee, has now assumed her position as Editor. We would also like to note the great interest taken in our research and in the humanities in general, by our former Vice-President, Research and International Relations, Professor Heather Munroe-Blum, who has left Toronto to become Principal of McGill University. Her support has been invaluable to the well-being of the project over the years.
Technological Advances
In February, Peter Mielke, who had been our systems analyst since 1998, accepted a position out in industry. He had worked, with unfailing good cheer, to move us to a more standard platform by SGMLizing our entire operation. He has been replaced by Xin (Linda) Xiang, who has been responsible for developing the beta-test version of the Dictionary on CD-ROM. As promised in last year's report, we released early in the New Year our web tool which allows for wildcard or regular expression searches on the Corpus; this tool makes possible variant spelling searches and provides a direct link to citations in the Web Corpus. It can be accessed through our website at http://www.doe.utoronto.ca/. We continue to be pleased that so many members of the scholarly community are finding the Web Corpus a useful tool for their research. As funds allow, we are updating our hardware by replacing our aging SPARCstations.
In 2002, the Dictionary was part of a University of Toronto team, within a consortium of six Canadian universities, which successfully applied to the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) for the creation of a Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR). This is a most exciting venture for us, as we (along with our Toronto colleagues) will have access to powerful servers customized to provide an environment suitable for lexicographic research. We plan to distribute the Dictionary on the Web through this portal as soon as the infrastructure is developed.
Grants and Gifts
This year, as always, we have searched for funds to ensure the completion of the Dictionary. We are delighted to report that during the year we were awarded a two-year (2002-4) grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. One-year grants by the British Academy, London, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, New York, and a first-time grant by the Salus Mundi Foundation of Tucson, Arizona, together with gifts from the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists as well as from colleagues and friends are all helping us to match our most recent NEH grant. We are immensely grateful to our funding agencies and individual donors, for without their generosity the Dictionary could not be completed. A list of gifts to the project in the past year is appended.
Dissemination and Outreach
We were pleased this year to have visits from two members of our International Advisory Committee – Professor Eric Stanley of the University of Oxford and Professor Roberta Frank of Yale University. As always, we have been happy to welcome scholars and students from around the world who consulted our collection for their own research; Ms. Ruth Möhlig of the University of Köln worked here for an extended period in the Spring. Our staff continues to represent the project at conferences. In March, Pauline Thompson gave a paper at the Symposium on "The Study and Use of the Bible in the Middle Ages and Renaissance" at the University of Western Ontario. In May, Antonette diPaolo Healey attended the Advisory Board meeting at the Richard Rawlinson Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies and Manuscript Research at Western Michigan University and attended the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies where our colleagues Carl Berkhout and Helen Damico were honored. Also in May, she attended the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Medievalists in Toronto during the 2002 Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities. The Dictionary was pleased to host an open house for fellow-medievalists, giving tours of the project and demonstrating our research tools. In July, together with Bob Lewis and Eric Stanley, Antonette diPaolo Healey spoke on "Polysemy" at the Oxford English Dictionary forum in Oxford, and then again at a session of the First International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology at the University of Leicester. In September, Dorothy Haines gave a paper at a workshop on the Vercelli Book at the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies in Toronto which was also attended by other members of the editorial staff. In December, Antonette diPaolo Healey attended the meeting of the MLA in New York, where she gave a report on the project to the Old English Executive committee.
Staff
EDITOR: Antonette diPaolo Healey
REVISING EDITOR: Joan Holland
DRAFTING EDITORS: Dorothy Haines
David McDougall
Ian McDougall
Pauline Thompson
EDITORIAL STAFF: Catherine Monahan
Peter Mielke (Systems Analyst)
Xin Xiang (Systems Analyst)
Elaine Quanz
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Roberta Frank: Yale University
Helmut Gneuss: University of Munich
Simon Keynes: University of Cambridge
Andy Orchard: University of Toronto
Fred C. Robinson: Yale University
Eric Stanley: Pembroke College, Oxford
DIRECTOR OF COMPUTING:
Richard L. Venezky: University of Delaware
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS:
Aidan Conti
Sarah Downey
Damian Fleming
Rob Getz
Holly Jagger
Connell Monette
Mark Sundaram
STUDENT ASSISTANTS: Raliza Stoyanova
Philippa Geddie (Mentorship student)
Paul Franz (Mentorship student)
EDITOR, Toronto Old English Series: Andy Orchard
EDITOR, Publications of the Dictionary of Old English: Andy Orchard
Funding
- The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (formerly the Canada Council): Grants in Aid of Research, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975; Major Editorial Grants, 1976-81, 1981-86, 1986-91, 1991-96; Grants from the Federal Matching Funds Policy, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991; Special Presidential Grant, 1993; Consortium Support Programme 1996-98, 1998-2000, 2000-
- British Academy
- Connaught Fund, University of Toronto, 1986-1991
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2002-2003
- Early English Text Society
- Marc Fitch Fund
- Foundation for Education and Social Development, Boston
- Jackman Foundation
- Macdonald-Stewart Foundation
- McLean Foundation, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2000
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1985-90, 1994-99, 2000-
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Tools Program, 1991-93, 1993-95, 1995-98, 1998-2000, 2000-2002, 2002-
- Presidents' Committee, University of Toronto
- Salamander Foundation, 1998-2001, 2001-
- Salus Mundi Foundation
- University of Toronto
- Xerox Corporation University Grants Committee
##FRIENDS OF THE DICTIONARY OF OLD ENGLISH
We wish to acknowledge the very generous contributions the project has received during the past year. Donors who supported our research in memory or in honor of individuals are also noted separately at the end of the list. All of us on the project are grateful to each one of you. We would like to mention especially the generous donation of $1,265 from the International Society of Anglo Saxonists. The strong support of the most important scholarly organization in our field has been invaluable to us. We are also very grateful to all those scholars who have kindly donated books to the DOE library. Such contributions of publications, both new and old, enable us to maintain our research collection. We hope to have included all who have so generously supported our work, but must apologize to any donors inadvertently left off this list of acknowledgements. This list encompasses gifts given between December 10, 2001, and December 10, 2002.
Up to $499
Scott Beaver
Estate of Sharon Butler
Jacek Fisiak
Rivi Frankle
Catherine Georgi
F. Roger Higgins
Brenda Hosington
Haruko Momma
William and Lucille Owen
Carol Percy
Richard W. Pfaff
Winifred I. Potter
Paul Remley
Charles R. Smith
E.G. Stanley
Julie Towell
Yoshihiro Yoshino
$500 and above
St. Clair Balfour
Wendy Cameron
Wendy Cecil
Antonette diPaolo Healey
E.D. and M.P. Hirsch
M. Jean Houston
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Bill and Allison Kingsmill
Timothy Mark
Philip and Mary Maude
Michiko Ogura
Gordon Pratt
A.G. and Jennifer Rigg
Anonymous (1)
IN MEMORY OF ASHLEY CRANDELL AMOS
Bill and Allison Kingsmill
Michiko Ogura
Yoshihiro Yoshino
IN MEMORY OF SHARON BUTLER
Brenda Hosington
IN MEMORY OF ANGUS CAMERON
M. Jean Houston
Bill and Allison Kingsmill
Philip and Mary Maude
William and Lucille Owen
Richard W. Pfaff
A.G. and Jennifer Rigg
Yoshihiro Yoshino
IN MEMORY OF ROWLAND COLLINS
Ann Hutchison
IN MEMORY OF MARY AND JAMES MARK
Timothy Mark
IN MEMORY OF JOHN C. POPE
E.D. and M.P. Hirsch
IN MEMORY OF NANCY JO NOONAN VIRSIS
Antonette diPaolo Healey
