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on other occasions, the authorship of that
seasonal poem `The Night Before
Christmas' was re-attributed to Henry
Livingston after having been assigned to
Clement Clarke Moore for a century and
a half. After 150 years, `The Night Before
Christmas' remains, even if a little too
materially so, a wonderful story of warmth
and seasonal cheer. All of us at DigiCULT
extend you our best wishes for the season
and hope that each of you may have a
happy and successful 2004.
Seamus Ross & John Pereira
Editors, DigiCULT.Info
ox.ac.uk/).This project, run by Peter
Fraser and Elaine Matthews at the
University of Oxford, aims to collect, doc-
ument and make accessible (e.g. publish)
for further research all surviving ancient
Greek personal names from the earliest
written materials to about the sixth century
AD.The project has been using computer
technology since shortly after its founda-
tion in 1972 to facilitate the development
of the lexicon.While the LGPN has used
computer technology to facilitate its
manipulating, processing and presenting, in
other cases it may be feasible to automate
the process of culling names from sources.
Colleagues at the Netherlands Institute for
Scientific Information Services have devel-
oped a tool for extracting names from lit-
erary texts that will enable research into
how authors use names (e.g. types, fre-
quencies, characterisation).
S
imilarly, research into the authenticity
of texts and the attribution of author-
ship has been substantially aided by com-
putational tools, whether it be the studies
led by Sir Anthony Kenny on Artistole,
Gerard Ledger on Plato, or Don Foster on
variety material from poems purported to
be by Shakespeare, to more contemporary
fiction and non-fiction.You may remember
that, in part, because of his efforts,
although less computationally based than
3D multimedia tools for archiving cultural
heritage materials from landscapes to
objects. One of the strengths of their work
is that it enables access to and display of
other data types alongside the models.This
theme of visualisation is also taken up in
the closing article by the Director of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute
for Philosophical Research, Professor
Kristóf Nyíri, as he examines the develop-
ment of the knowledge society.
D
igiCULT is funded under the Fifth
Framework Programme of the
European Commission and, as with all
such activities, the Commission appoints a
Project Officer to assist our work.
DigiCULT's first project officer, Axel
Szauer, retired early from the Commission
this autumn. One might not automatically
mark the passing of a project officer, but
Axel Szauer did much to ensure the suc-
cess of our activities, helped us to avoid
pitfalls that can bedevil projects, and gave
us support and encouragement.We were
sorry to see him go and wish him all the
best.
N
ames provide a rich source for
scholars, but culling them can be a
slow process. Our first encounter with this
scholarly domain was with the Lexicon of
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DigiCULT Project Manager
John Pereira, john.pereira@salzburgresearch.at
DigiCULT Thematic Issue Scientific Editor
Guntram Geser, guntram.geser@salzburgresearch.at
DigiCULT Network Co-ordinator
Birgit Retsch, birgit.retsch@salzburgresearch.at
HATII Humanities Advanced Technology and
Information Institute
Director, HATII & ERPANET
Seamus Ross, s.ross@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
DigiCULT Forum Technology Assessor
Martin Donnelly, m.donnelly@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
DigiCULT.Info Content & Managing Editor
Daisy Abbott, d.abbott@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
DigiCULT Web Developer
Brian Aitken, b.aitken@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
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