Reconnecting with Gaelic Scotland's Community Traditions: The Legacy of Calum Iain Maclean's Collecting

通过与远远超出学术研究社区的受众进行接触，拟议的项目将促进对这位苏格兰和欧洲最著名和最具开拓性的民俗实地工作者之一的生活和工作的更多了解和欣赏。卡尔姆·伊恩·麦克林(1915-1960)因1942-1960年间主要在爱尔兰和苏格兰的盖尔语地区进行的创新田野收藏而被人们铭记。该文集主要由童话文本组成，尽管它也包括400首歌曲文本，以及麦克林的田野日记和两本由20世纪具有国际地位的朗诵者转录的长篇自传。AHRC资助的一个项目于2009年结束，创建了一个可搜索的Maclean转录材料数据库，该数据库现在是已知的最大的盖尔语口头散文数字语料库，总计约240万字。对现有资源的拟议增强将通过一系列旨在吸引更广泛受众的方法组合来实现。扩大网站的公众访问部分，包括音频和其他多媒体内容，将确保更具互动性的体验。将通过以下方式实现有效的外联：在线展览；麦克林职业生涯的行程；在爱丁堡和高地举行的一系列公开讲座；在各种主流渠道发表热门文章，以及同行评议的期刊；收录麦克林最重要的线人的30本胶囊传记，以促进知识交流和鼓励与捐赠界的互动；麦克林的代表性收藏品将作为2 CD集汇编在久负盛名的苏格兰传统丛书中发行，使用苏格兰民间音乐的领先出版商Greentrax作为其营销和发行渠道；为期一天的会议，最终在2013年5月的音乐会上结束项目。除了在更大程度上与公众和学术受众接触之外，后续阶段的成果还将显著改善苏格兰非物质文化遗产获得传统核心来源的机会。目前档案资源的一个独特特点是，它是我们目前已知的唯一一种利用口头文本数字出版的最新技术的档案资源。通过这样做，它加强了最近得到爱丁堡大学重大投入的其他民俗和技术倡议，如Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Rickets和Carmichael Watson项目。从这两个成功的项目中获得的专门知识和知识使凯尔特人和苏格兰研究和信息服务部与其在大学的合作历史在管理这些资源以期其未来的发展和加强方面具有明显的优势。

By engaging with an audience extending well beyond the academic research community, the proposed project will promote a greater understanding and appreciation of the life and work of one of Scotland's and Europe's most renowned and pioneering folklore field-workers. Calum Iain Maclean (1915-1960) is best remembered today for his innovative field collecting carried out primarily in the Gaelic-speaking regions of Ireland and Scotland between 1942 and 1960. The collection consists mainly of tale texts, although it also includes 400 song texts, along with Maclean's field diaries and two full-length autobiographies transcribed from twentieth-century reciters of international standing. An AHRC-funded project which concluded in 2009 created a searchable database of Maclean's transcribed materials which is now the largest known digital corpus of Gaelic oral prose, amounting to c. 2.4 million words.The proposed enhancement to the existing resource will be delivered through a combination of methods designed to engage a wider constituency. Expanding the public access section of the website to include audio and other multimedia content will ensure a more interactive experience. Effective outreach will be achieved through an online exhibition; an itinerary of Maclean's career; a series of public lectures in Edinburgh and in the Highlands; the publishing of popular articles in various mainstream outlets, as well as peer-reviewed journals; the inclusion of thirty capsule biographies of Maclean's most important informants to foster knowledge exchange and encourage interaction with donor communities; a representative selection of Maclean's collecting to be released as a 2 CD set compilation in the well-established Scottish Tradition Series using Greentrax, a leading publisher of Scottish folk music, for its marketing and distribution outlets; a one-day conference culminating in a concert in May 2013 to conclude the project. In addition to leading to a greater degree of engagement with public and academic audiences, the results of the follow-on phase will provide a significantly improved level of access to a central source of tradition for Scotland's intangible cultural heritage. A unique feature of the present archival resource is that it is currently the only one of any size known to us to harness the latest technology in the digital publication of oral texts. In doing so, it enhances other recent folklore and technology initiatives that have had a significant input from the University of Edinburgh, such as the Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches and the Carmichael Watson Projects. The expertise and knowledge gained from the two successful projects places Celtic and Scottish Studies and Information Services with their history of collaboration at the University at a distinct advantage in managing these resources with a view to their future development and enhancement.