Digital project to boost Irish studies with 'virtual Ireland' website

A new ECAI-related project, "Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies," aims to better connect Irish studies materials and to make them easily accessible from anywhere with a quick click of the computer mouse.

 

This project transforms Irish studies and reinvents the library reference service," said project leader Michael Buckland, an emeritus professor in UC Berkeley's Information School. "In the past, one could use reference works in the library's reference collection to find explanations. We intend to show how that valuable service can be made available online. It's a bigger deal in Irish studies than in almost any other discipline."

 

UC Berkeley's task is to develop open source search and retrieval tools and interfaces to explore contexts and relationships through names, places and other words in maps, atlases, bibliographies, dictionaries, primary texts and secondary works.

 

Read the entire press release at: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/11/15_virtualireland.shtml