10 January: fyi -- text databases, Liverpool

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The Arts and Humanities Research Board has recently announced a major award
of 108,894 over two years under its Resource Enhancement Scheme for Phase
1 of the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub project.

The twin overall aims of this project are:
* to open up for on-line access significant resources that will advance
research into the languages and society of medieval Britain and support
university courses across a wide areas of medieval studies;
* to develop, evaluate, deploy and propagate XML-based technologies
that will be of service in many areas of Humanities computing worlwide.
More specifically, the award is to fund a Web server and document managment
system dedicated solely to the project, technical consultancy for resource
development and electronic publication on that platform, and the
appointment of a Technical Support Officer to perform corpus digitisation,
in particular the application of TEI-conformant XML markup, to enable
maximum on-line accessibility of the digital resources.

Details of the post of Technical Support Officer may be found at:
http://and.lexilog.net:8090/job.html.

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