Ogham Palaeography+ (OPal+)

Ogham Palaeography+ (OPal+)旨在提高人们对独特的中世纪盖尔语Ogham文字的认识，并通过扩大其社会和文化范围和影响，传播英国-爱尔兰合作项目OG(H)AM （https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/）的成果。奥格姆是一种独特的、高度抽象的书写系统，发明于中世纪早期的爱尔兰，用于在三维空间上书写当地的爱尔兰语/盖尔语，在二维物体上不太常见。像条形码一样，这种文字由沿茎线或沿茎线的笔画和缺口组成。直到现在，这种文字在时间和空间上的发展（即它的古代学）还没有被研究过。OPal+将通过四个独立的项目来实现其目标，每个项目都与国际社会或学术机构、研究项目或艺术家合作。在Strand 1中，团队将与其他研究文字和铭文历史的国际项目合作，更新软件原型。原型是研究和比较跨时空写作风格变化的独特平台。使用Archetype软件，我们将创建交互式平台OPal ('Ogham Palaeography')，供学者们进一步研究，并通常作为关于Ogham的信息来源。研究小组将开始在蛋白石中填充来自三维和二维来源的奥格姆字母的代表性例子。第二次元和第三次元之间的紧张关系也将在《Strand 2》中得到检验。在与一位富有创造力的艺术家，抄写艺术家托马斯·凯斯和皇家爱尔兰学院的合作中，这个问题将被问到，当手稿从石头上“走下来”并被用于书籍写作时，手稿写作的实质性是如何影响奥格姆文字的。凯斯致力于中世纪手稿和现代城市涂鸦传统的结合，他将与爱尔兰皇家学院的奥格姆一起创作一件艺术品，以回应一些最著名的手稿内容。在Strand 3中，OPal+团队将与德文郡的社会企业Aquafolium合作，Aquafolium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。凭借他们在木材方面的专业知识，Aquafolium将能够阐明在木棒上书写欧姆的做法。虽然在中世纪的故事中提到过，但这种做法之前没有被研究过。这次合作的成果将是一套木棒，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，并通过专注于福利外展，吸引弱势群体和难以接触的群体，使其社会影响多样化。在《Strand 4》中，OPal+将与获奖的儿童书籍作家和插画家Chris Judge合作，首先开发关于奥格姆的儿童书籍的概念，然后制作针对5-9岁年龄组的插图。通过这种方式，我们希望在年轻的读者中提高对奥格姆的认识和知识。通过这种方式，该项目将对未来几代人产生文化和社会影响。

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.