Help us build the Celtic Resources Register

When you registered, we asked what most gets in the way of your work with Celtic-language materials. The answer given most often, by two in every three of you, was finding out what already exists. And when we asked what a community of practice should give you, a registry of resources and who maintains them came near the top.

So we’ve made a start on a list, with all the tools we have found useful to our learning and research: corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies, manuscript images, tools and communities. It’s linked below, and you are welcome to download or add your own resources.

Open the Celtic Resources Register

At the moment, the Register is just a Google doc. In line with our philosophy to build on existing work rather than recreating, we’ve incorporated content from Digital Projects for the Gaelic World, the digital resources register created by Padraic Moran in 2021.

Building a register is the easy part. The question of how we share, promote and maintain such resources remains open, and will be a key question for the Symposium.

How you can help

Add something we’ve missed. Tell us its name, a link, what it’s for, who looks after it, and anything worth knowing about its limits (file format, licence, whether it’s still maintained).

There are 68 resources currently on the list: there are definitely more out there. Open the doc, scroll to the bottom and add your favourites. Or if you comment below, we’ll add them for you.

If you work with Breton, Cornish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, modern or medieval: the register is biased towards Old and Middle Irish, and we’d love to see resources reflecting the entire community of Celtic languages.

Fill a gap. Some entries are missing details. If you know who maintains something, or where its data can be downloaded, please add the information directly to the document or comment below.

Correct us. If an entry is out of date, has moved, or is simply wrong, please let us know: make a correction, comment below, or email celticlanguageresearch@gmail.com.

If you have ideas or suggestions about how to promote, share and maintain a register of resources, please comment below and we’ll incorporate these into the Symposium workshops.

Comments from first-time posters are held briefly for approval; after that you can post freely. The thread stays open until 6 October.