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This is pretty true in general. Many have spent entire careers doing cataloguing of manuscripts and what is in them. The Royal Irish Academy did that in the early to mid part of th…

My degree is in Celtic Studies. This kind of discovery may be surprising to those not versed in it but not those who have studied these languages. Some of the best preserved Old Ir…

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley who founded Freelance Programmers in 1962 and hired predominately women who worked from home has died at the age of 91.

I am a BaseX user and I really appreciate it! I actually do not mind XML at all. XQuery and BaseX makes searching large numbers of XML file or just one large XML file really easy.

I still have a Samsung Galaxy S8. It runs fine. I don't really need more from a phone. Maybe I am missing something but I really cannot see myself getting a new phone.

I find these articles both baffling and frustrating at the same time. I find it frustrating because I spent recess after recess locked inside to practice cursive. After many months…

I am not an expert in any way, shape or form but I wonder how this squares with this other journal article in Nature: Molecular Psychiatry which came out in 2024? "11C-UCB-J PET im…

Reading this, I am increasing my belief that this is very, if not exactly, like XSLT. You are searching a tree looking for parents, siblings, children, etc nodes then analysing or …

Your comment very much reminds me of the Isaac Asimov story "The Feeling of Power" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power ). I think it might be worth the time read o…

I am glad to see this as well. I decided to use RDF for my personal project because it was well specified, has many implementations, and a human readable syntax. In the end, it is …

I will try. I tend to think of "The Celts" linguistically as a set of related languages. However, that is an artefact of my own training and background. How the people who spoke th…

I have a degree in "Celtic Studies" and while I tend to study the Irish early medieval period rather than the ancient period, I would highly recommend reconsidering the entire idea…

If you are interested in cats in Early Medieval Ireland, I would recommend reading "Catṡlechta and other medieval legal material relating to cats" by Kevin Murray in Celtica 25, pp…

If you love wisdom literature. You may also enjoy "Old Irish wisdom attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria: an edition of Bríathra Flainn Fhína maic Ossu" ( https://worldcat.org/t…

Here is Brian Kernighan mentioning the Unicode work in an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyQxXw_oMQ

For those interested in the archaeology of early Medieval Ireland, I would highly recommend this survey: Early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100: the evidence from archaeological excav…

The author of this post mentions the Humanities at the end of their post and TerminusDB. I work on a Humanities based project which uses the Semantic Web ( https://github.com/cyocu…

I occasionally work with data in the Humanities. The data here is often very, very small. I talk to other Humanities researchers and I often find that they really want to get on th…

If you would like more information on what the Irish ate before the potato, I would recommend these two books to start: * Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly ( http://www.worldcat.…

After looking around a bit, this strongly reminds me of Václav Havel's play, "The Memorandum" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memorandum ).

To help answer your first question, I would recommend reading Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages, 2nd ed. by K. W. Nicholls ( http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/471778201 )…

For those who want more on this topic, you will want to read Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly ( http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462769441 ) and Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100 …