LDT

LDT is a collaborative project involving the eDIL project in the University of Ulster and CELT in University College Cork. The CELT Project has published a large corpus of SGML-encoded Irish texts on the web, while the eDIL project is producing an electronic version of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language (DIL). The aim of the LDT project is to link eDIL to CELT’s corpus of on-line texts so that users of eDIL will be able to view in full on the internet texts cited in DIL. This will be extremely valuable to scholars who do not have easy access to a well-stocked research library but will also enable any researcher anywhere in the world to rapidly check the complete context of citations without leaving their desk.

Many of the texts cited in DIL are already available on the CELT website, but a major task for the LDT Project will be to capture and publish those texts not already on the site. Software is also being developed in UCC to enable automatic linking of the dictionary and the on-line texts.

The project is being funded by Strand 1 of the North-South Programme for Collaborative Research.