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界的观众接触，拟议的项目将促进对苏格兰和欧洲最知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好理解和欣赏。Calum Iain Maclean（1915-1960）因其在1942年至1960年间主要在爱尔兰和苏格兰的盖尔语地区进行的创新性实地收集而被人们铭记。该系列主要由故事文本组成，但也包括400首歌曲文本，沿着麦克莱恩的野外日记和两本从二十世纪国际地位的朗诵者那里转录的全长自传。2009年结束的一个AHRC资助的项目创建了一个可搜索的麦克林转录材料数据库，该数据库现在是最大的已知盖尔语口头散文数字语料库，达到c。2.4将通过综合各种方法，扩大现有资源的拟议增加，以吸引更多的支持者。扩大网站的公众访问部分，以包括音频和其他多媒体内容，将确保提供更好的互动体验。将通过以下方式实现有效的外联：在线展览;麦克莱恩职业生涯的路线;在爱丁堡和苏格兰高地举办一系列公开讲座;在各种主流媒体以及同行评审的期刊上发表受欢迎的文章;列入麦克莱恩最重要的线人的30本简要传记，以促进知识交流并鼓励与捐助界的互动;麦克林收集的代表性选择将作为一个2 CD集汇编发行的完善的苏格兰传统系列使用Greentrax，苏格兰民间音乐的领先出版商，其营销和分销渠道;为期一天的会议最终在2013年5月的音乐会结束该项目。除了导致公众和学术界更大程度的参与外，后续阶段的成果将大大改善苏格兰非物质文化遗产传统的核心来源。目前的档案资源的一个独特之处是，它是我们目前所知的唯一一个利用最新技术以数字方式出版口头文本的档案资源。在这样做的过程中，它加强了爱丁堡大学提供重要投入的其他最近的民俗和技术倡议，如Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches和卡迈克尔沃森项目。从这两个成功的项目中获得的专业知识和知识，使凯尔特人和苏格兰研究和信息服务与他们在大学的合作历史，在管理这些资源方面具有明显的优势，以便他们未来的发展和提高。

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.