A fascinating read on the challenges of maintaining and expanding a dictionary in the digital age. Well worth a read!

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/23/oxford-english-dictionary-can-worlds-biggest-dictionary-survive-internet

Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet?

The long read: For centuries, lexicographers have attempted to capture the entire English language. Technology might soon turn this dream into reality – but will it spell the end for dictionaries?

Fully funded PhD studentship

Working on the project 'Society and the Dead: Geospatial and Statistical approaches to complex cemeteries in early medieval Ireland'

A background in archaeology is not a requirement; cognate disciplines are welcome

https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/Research/Studentships/ArchaeologyandPalaeoecologyStudentships/

Archaeology and Palaeoecology Studentships | School of Natural and Built Environment | Queen's University Belfast

We are aware that some users, especially those not running Windows Explorer, are experiencing a problem in that they are being directed to the new concise version of the dictionary rather than the full version. The intention is that frequent users will be directed always to the full edition and we are working with our programmer to resolve the issue. In the meantime, we can only apologise for any inconvenience caused.

A quick update on yesterday's press...

You can listen to Professor Toner's interview on the following link (about 17 minutes in):

https://tg4.ie/ga/player/baile/?pid=6009009675001&teideal=Nuacht%20TG4&series=Nuacht%20TG4&dlft=35

And there is a short news item too:
https://tg4.ie/ga/nuacht/?id=1033753

Prof. Greg Toner, who leads the eDIL project, will be on Nuacht TG4 tonight, talking about the concise version of the dictionary and words you'll find there.

If you miss it, you should be able to catch up later:
https://www.tg4.ie/en/live/nuacht-tg4/

Very grateful to Darach Ó Séaghdha, who you may know from the fantastic ‘Motherfoclóir' and ‘Craic Baby’ books as well as the @TheIrishFor Twitter account, for his piece on the concise version of eDIL in today’s thejournal.ie.

Darach’s article is here:
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/the-irish-for-what-does-old-irish-tell-us-about-ancient-ireland-4507301-Feb2019/?utm_source=shortlink

Concise eDIL is here: http://www.dil.ie

Help us find out more about how and why people use eDIL by completing the survey that is now on the website of the Concise Edition. It only takes a couple of minutes ... or you can spend more time and tell us about your interests if you wish. Huge thanks to everyone who has given us feedback already!

http://dil.ie

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you!

We thought we would cook up something very special for all those who LOVE Old Irish and for those who are still falling in love with it. And what could possibly be more romantic than a new eDIL feature on our website!?

Welcome to eDIL-the consise edition (affectionately known as eDIL Lite): http://dil.ie/

Here you can type in an English word and find all Irish entries with a matching definition (as shown for the word 'love' below). You can 'Switch to full edition' at any time by clicking on the button beside the search bar or you can click on any of the Irish words shown to bring you to the full entry. A list of 'Suggested Searches' should give you an idea.

Le grá,

Your eDIL Team

COMING SOON. We are pleased to announce that a new concise edition of eDIL aimed at the general user will appear soon. It will contain simplified contents showing just the headword and definitions. If you are a regular user, you won’t be affected but you will be able to switch between the two versions if you want.

We had a fantastic turnout at the eDIL workshop in UCC last Saturday! It was great to see so many Irish and History teachers attend, and learn how to make the most out of eDIL and other medieval Irish sources in the classroom. We hope to see them again soon for a follow-up event!!!

Pictured here (left to right):

Dr Rebecca Shercliff (Cambridge)
Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (UCC)
Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge)

Exciting times ahead this week! Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Dr Rebecca Shercliff will be going to University College Cork this Saturday to talk to teachers of Irish and History about how to get the most out of eDIL for teaching!
If you know a post-primary teacher working in the UK or Ireland who might be interested in using eDIL in their classroom, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us via Facebook or Twitter! So don't be shy to tag your teacher friends!!!

Get a taste for birds and bugs! If you are excited to see which new words are going to be part of the revised electronic dictionary, check out Sharon Arbuthnot's recent article on birds and insects in the latest Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies available here:
http://www.cmcspublications.com/journal.html

CMCS | Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies | Journal

Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies (CMCS) is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal has an excellent reputation and provides an outstanding resource for students of Celtic Studies and anyone with an interest in Celtic topics.

Closing soon!!!

The CfP deadline for the 2019 TOTh Conference is Friday 25th January!

'The TOTh (Terminology, Onthology, Theories and applications) community was created more than ten years ago and, ever since, has drawn together researchers, teachers, trainers, practitioners, users and industrialists whose interests concern terminology and, in a more general way, the links between language and knowledge in the context of our discipline.

TOTh is open to all streams of thought, and sets out to provide a forum of exchange and sharing where problems are presented along with solutions and feedback from experience, on both the theoretic and the applied planes, as well as new tendencies and perspectives in the disciplines associated with terminology (translation, lexicography, knowledge engineering, the information sciences …).'

All information available here:

http://toth.condillac.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TOTh-2019-Call-for-papers-English-2.pdf

toth.condillac.org

In other lexicography news:

'Smart Lexicography' (apart from being eDIL's philosophy :D) is also the theme of the 2019 ELEX (Electronic LExicography) conference in Sintra, Portugal.

See details here:

https://elex.link/elex2019/

If you're wondering what we have been up to during the past five years on the eDIL project, you might be interested in Greg Toner's section of a newly published article on 'Early Irish Lexicography'. The article, co-authored with Aaron Griffith and David Stifter, appeared in vol. 63 of the journal Kratylos and can be read online here:
https://www.academia.edu/38001905/Early_Irish_Lexicography_-_A_Research_Survey_preprint_preredaction_

An amazing opportunity!

The OED is advertising summer internships at their Oxford offices for General Editor and Science Editor! For all you lexicophiles who would like to gain hands-on experience in what it means to write a dictionary, apply here: https://public.oed.com/about/oed-internships/

Deadline : 13th January 2019