Ogham Palaeography+ (OPal+)

奥甘古文字学 (OPal)

• 批准号: AH/Y007387/1
• 负责人: Katherine Forsyth
• 金额: $ 14.22万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY007387%2F1
• 关键词: Ogham; Palaeography+; OPal+

Ogham Palaeography+ (OPal+) aims at enhancing the awareness of the unique medieval Gaelic ogham script and disseminating the results of the UK-Ireland collaborative project OG(H)AM (https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/) by broadening its social and cultural reach and impact. Ogham is a unique and highly abstract writing system invented in early medieval Ireland to write the local Irish/Gaelic language on three-dimensional, less commonly on two-dimensional objects. Like a barcode, the script consists of strokes and notches along or across a stemline. Until now, the development of this script across time and space (i.e. its palaeography) has not been studied. OPal+ will pursue its aims in four separate strands of the project, each in collaboration with international social or academic institutions, research projects or artists.In Strand 1, the team will update the software Archetype in collaboration with other international projects that research the history of writing and epigraphy. Archetype is a uniquely suitable platform to study and compare the variation of writing styles across time and space. Using the Archetype software, we will create the interactive platform OPal ('Ogham Palaeography') for further research by scholars and generally as a source for information about ogham. The team will start to fill the OPal with representative examples of ogham letters, from three-dimensional and from two-dimensional sources.The tension between the second and third dimension is also one that will be examined in Strand 2. In a partnership with a creative artist, the scribal artist Thomas Keyes, and the Royal Irish Academy, the question will be asked how the materiality of manuscript writing influenced the ogham script when it 'stepped down' from the stones and was adopted for book writing. Keyes, who works in the interface of the medieval manuscript and the modern urban graffiti tradition, will produce an artwork that responds to the contents of some of the most famous manuscripts with ogham in the Royal Irish Academy.In Strand 3, the OPal+ team will collaborate with the Devon-based social enterprise Aquafolium, who specialise in supporting people's well-being by connecting them with nature in a woodland environment. With their expertise in working with wood, Aquafolium will be able to shed light on the practice of writing ogham on wooden sticks. Although mentioned in medieval tales, this practice has not been researched before. The material result of this collaboration will be sets of wooden ogham sticks that can be used for educational purposes in museums and schools. Furthermore, Aquafolium will provide training to the OPal+ team to enhance its current outreach offering and diversify its social impact by focusing on outreach around wellbeing and on engaging disadvantaged and harder-to-reach groups.In Strand 4, OPal+ will team up with the award-winning author and illustrator of children's books Chris Judge in order to develop first the concept for a children's book about ogham, and then to produce it with illustrations aimed at the age group of 5-9. In this way we hope to raise the awareness of and increase the knowledge about ogham among readers of a younger age group. In this way the project will literally have a cultural and social impact in generations to come.

Ogham Palaeography+(Opal+)旨在通过扩大OG(H)AM(https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/))项目的社会和文化影响，提高人们对独特的中世纪盖尔语OGHAM文字的认识，并传播联合王国和爱尔兰合作项目OG(H)AM(OG(H)AM)的成果。Ogham是一种独特的高度抽象的书写系统，发明于中世纪早期的爱尔兰，用来在三维物体上书写当地的爱尔兰/盖尔语，在二维物体上不太常见。就像条形码一样，手写体由沿或跨短划线的笔划和凹槽组成。到目前为止，这种文字在时间和空间上的发展(即它的古文字学)还没有得到研究。Opal+将在项目的四个不同阶段实现其目标，每个阶段都与国际社会或学术机构、研究项目或艺术家合作。在阶段1中，团队将与其他研究书写和金石学历史的国际项目合作，更新软件原型。原型是研究和比较写作风格在时间和空间上变化的独特平台。利用原型软件，我们将创建Opal(‘Ogham Palaeography’)互动平台，以供学者进一步研究，并通常作为有关Ogham的信息来源。该团队将开始用来自三维和二维来源的欧罕字母的代表性范例来填充欧罕字母。第二和第三维度之间的紧张关系也将在Strand 2中得到检验。在创意艺术家、抄写者托马斯·凯斯和爱尔兰皇家学院的合作下，这个问题将被问到，当欧罕文字从石头上下来并被用来写书时，手稿的重要性如何影响欧罕文字。凯斯致力于中世纪手稿和现代城市涂鸦传统的结合，他将创作一幅艺术品，回应爱尔兰皇家学院一些最著名的欧甘姆手稿的内容。在Strand 3中，Opal+团队将与总部位于德文郡的社会企业Aquafolium合作，后者专门通过在林地环境中将人们与自然联系起来来支持人们的福祉。凭借他们在木头方面的专业知识，Aquafolium将能够揭示在木棍上书写ogham的做法。虽然在中世纪的故事中提到了这种做法，但以前没有人研究过这种做法。这一合作的物质成果将是几套木制火腿棒，可用于博物馆和学校的教育目的。此外，Aquafolium将为Opal+团队提供培训，以加强其目前的外展服务，并通过专注于围绕福祉的外展以及吸引弱势群体和更难接触到的群体来实现其社会影响的多样化。在Strand 4中，Opal+将与屡获殊荣的儿童图书作者兼儿童书籍插画家克里斯·贾奇合作，首先开发关于Oham的儿童图书的概念，然后制作针对5-9岁年龄组的插图。通过这种方式，我们希望在更年轻的年龄段的读者中提高对欧甘姆的认识和知识。通过这种方式，该项目将在未来几代人中产生文化和社会影响。