Mr Brian Aitken

  • Research Officer (English Language & Linguistics)

telephone: 0141 330 3392
email: Brian.Aitken@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 506, 13 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8qq

Import to contacts

Publications

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Number of items: 18.

2024

Halsey, K., Sangster, M. , Aitken, B., Baston, K. , Branagh-Miscampbell, M., Macfarlane, I., Smith, J. and O'Callaghan Yeoman, C. (2024) Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers. [Website]

2023

Lawson, E., Cleland, J., Stuart-Smith, J. , Aitken, B. and Beck, J. (2023) A Speech Therapy Animation and Imaging Resource (STAR). In: 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic, 7-11 Aug 2023, pp. 3879-3882. ISBN 9788090811423

2022

Smith, J. , Aitken, B., Eunson, B. and Robinson, M. (2022) Speak for Yersel. [Website]

2021

Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2021) Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: enlightenment systems and digital reconfigurations. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54(4), pp. 935-955. (doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0098)

2020

Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2020) Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow. [Website]

2019

Smith, J. , Adger, D., Aitken, B., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Gary, T. (2019) The Scots Syntax Atlas. [Website]

2018

Aitken, B., Hough, C. , Taylor, S. and Williamson, E. (2018) The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource. [Website]

2017

Fitzmaurice, S., Robinson, J., Hine, I., Dallachy, F. , Rogers, K., Alexander, M. , Pidd, M., Mehl, S., Groves, M. and Aitken, B. (2017) The Seven Words of the Virgin: Identifying Change in the Discourse Context of the Concept of Virginity in Early Modern English. In: Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, QC, Canada, 08-11 Aug 2017, pp. 225-227.

2015

Rennie, S., Warth-Szczyglowska, M. and Aitken, B. (2015) Historical Thesaurus of Scots. [Website]

Anderson, W. , Hough, C. , Kay, C., Bramwell, E., Aitken, B., Hamilton, R. and Alexander, M. (2015) Metaphor Map of Old English. [Website]

Anderson, W. , Hough, C. , Kay, C., Bramwell, E., Aitken, B., Hamilton, R. and Alexander, M. (2015) Metaphor Map of English. [Website]

2014

Anderson, W. , Aitken, B. and Hamilton, R. (2014) A digital metaphor map for English [poster]. In: DH2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-12 Jul 2014,

2012

Aitken, B., McCann, P., McHugh, A. and Miller, K. (2012) Digital curation and the cloud. Technical Report. JISC / Digital Curation Centre.

2010

Aitken, B., Ross, S. , Lindley, A., Michaeler, E., Jackson, A. and van den Dobbelsteen, M. (2010) The Planets Testbed: a collaborative research environment for digital preservation. In: The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2010, Glasgow, Scotland, 7-9 Sept 2010,

Aitken, B., Barr, M. , Lindley, A. and Ross, S. (2010) Developing infrastructural software for preservation: reflections of lessons learned developing the Planets Testbed. In: 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (IPRES 2010), Vienna, Austria, 19-24 Sept 2010,

Aitken, B., Innocenti, P., Ross, S. and Konstantelos, L. (2010) User requirements for a next generation digital preservation framework: analysis and implementation. In: IS&T Archiving 2010: Preservation Strategies and Imaging Technologies for Cultural Heritage Institutions and Memory Organisations, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 1-4 Jun 2010, pp. 48-52.

Lindley, A., Jackson, A.N. and Aitken, B. (2010) A collaborative research environment for digital preservation - the Planets Testbed. In: 19th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, Larissa, Greece, 28-30 June 2010, pp. 197-202. (doi: 10.1109/WETICE.2010.37)

Schlarb, S., Michaeler, E., Kaiser, M., Lindley, A., Aitken, B., Ross, S. and Jackson, A. (2010) A case study on performing a complex file-format migration experiment using the Planets Testbed. In: Archiving 2010, Den Haag, Netherlands, 1-4 June 2010,

This list was generated on Wed Oct 30 22:30:37 2024 GMT.
Jump to: Articles | Research Reports or Papers | Conference Proceedings | Website
Number of items: 18.

Articles

Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2021) Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: enlightenment systems and digital reconfigurations. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54(4), pp. 935-955. (doi: 10.1353/ecs.2021.0098)

Research Reports or Papers

Aitken, B., McCann, P., McHugh, A. and Miller, K. (2012) Digital curation and the cloud. Technical Report. JISC / Digital Curation Centre.

Conference Proceedings

Lawson, E., Cleland, J., Stuart-Smith, J. , Aitken, B. and Beck, J. (2023) A Speech Therapy Animation and Imaging Resource (STAR). In: 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic, 7-11 Aug 2023, pp. 3879-3882. ISBN 9788090811423

Fitzmaurice, S., Robinson, J., Hine, I., Dallachy, F. , Rogers, K., Alexander, M. , Pidd, M., Mehl, S., Groves, M. and Aitken, B. (2017) The Seven Words of the Virgin: Identifying Change in the Discourse Context of the Concept of Virginity in Early Modern English. In: Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal, QC, Canada, 08-11 Aug 2017, pp. 225-227.

Anderson, W. , Aitken, B. and Hamilton, R. (2014) A digital metaphor map for English [poster]. In: DH2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, 7-12 Jul 2014,

Aitken, B., Ross, S. , Lindley, A., Michaeler, E., Jackson, A. and van den Dobbelsteen, M. (2010) The Planets Testbed: a collaborative research environment for digital preservation. In: The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2010, Glasgow, Scotland, 7-9 Sept 2010,

Aitken, B., Barr, M. , Lindley, A. and Ross, S. (2010) Developing infrastructural software for preservation: reflections of lessons learned developing the Planets Testbed. In: 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (IPRES 2010), Vienna, Austria, 19-24 Sept 2010,

Aitken, B., Innocenti, P., Ross, S. and Konstantelos, L. (2010) User requirements for a next generation digital preservation framework: analysis and implementation. In: IS&T Archiving 2010: Preservation Strategies and Imaging Technologies for Cultural Heritage Institutions and Memory Organisations, Den Haag, The Netherlands, 1-4 Jun 2010, pp. 48-52.

Lindley, A., Jackson, A.N. and Aitken, B. (2010) A collaborative research environment for digital preservation - the Planets Testbed. In: 19th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, Larissa, Greece, 28-30 June 2010, pp. 197-202. (doi: 10.1109/WETICE.2010.37)

Schlarb, S., Michaeler, E., Kaiser, M., Lindley, A., Aitken, B., Ross, S. and Jackson, A. (2010) A case study on performing a complex file-format migration experiment using the Planets Testbed. In: Archiving 2010, Den Haag, Netherlands, 1-4 June 2010,

Website

Halsey, K., Sangster, M. , Aitken, B., Baston, K. , Branagh-Miscampbell, M., Macfarlane, I., Smith, J. and O'Callaghan Yeoman, C. (2024) Books and Borrowing, 1750-1830: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers. [Website]

Smith, J. , Aitken, B., Eunson, B. and Robinson, M. (2022) Speak for Yersel. [Website]

Sangster, M. , Baston, K. and Aitken, B. (2020) Eighteenth-Century Borrowing from the University of Glasgow. [Website]

Smith, J. , Adger, D., Aitken, B., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Gary, T. (2019) The Scots Syntax Atlas. [Website]

Aitken, B., Hough, C. , Taylor, S. and Williamson, E. (2018) The Berwickshire Place-Name Resource. [Website]

Rennie, S., Warth-Szczyglowska, M. and Aitken, B. (2015) Historical Thesaurus of Scots. [Website]

Anderson, W. , Hough, C. , Kay, C., Bramwell, E., Aitken, B., Hamilton, R. and Alexander, M. (2015) Metaphor Map of Old English. [Website]

Anderson, W. , Hough, C. , Kay, C., Bramwell, E., Aitken, B., Hamilton, R. and Alexander, M. (2015) Metaphor Map of English. [Website]

This list was generated on Wed Oct 30 22:30:37 2024 GMT.

Research datasets

Jump to: 2020
Number of items: 2.

2020

Mckeever, G. L. and Aitken, B. (2020) Romance Cartography: a map of Paul Jones (1826). [Data Collection]

Smith, J. , Adger, D., Aitken, B., Heycock, C., Jamieson, E. and Thoms, G. (2020) The Scots Syntax Atlas. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Wed Oct 30 19:23:20 2024 GMT.

Additional information

I am the Digital Humanities Research Officer for the School of Critical Studies., and I’m responsible for developing, implementing and supporting the School’s extensive collection of digital resources, principally those developed through externally and internally funded research projects.  

I am the website and database manager for The Historical Thesaurus of English and A Thesaurus of Old English, and I also developed the visualisations and interface for the Mapping Metaphor project.  I was responsible for developing the online resource for the Dictionary of the Scots Language, the iOS and Android app for the Scots Schools Dictionary and for the redesigned versions of the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech and the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing. 

I am a technical advisor for the Survey of Scottish Place-Names and have developed the data structures and online interfaces for a number of place-name projects, such as the Place-names of Fife, the Scottish Words and Place-names project and the Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland project. 

I have developed online resources for several projects within Scottish Literature, such as the website for the Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century project, which included a series of interactive historical maps of Burns’ walking tours, a site dedicated to choral settings of works by Burns, an interactive map of Edinburgh’s enlightenment, a digital edition of the radical late 18th century newspaper the Edinburgh Gazetteer, and the website and database of poems for The People’s Voice project.

I also serve as Resources Director for the STELLA project and have been responsible for creating iOS and Android apps from existing teaching materials, such as ARIES: Assisted Revision in English Style, The Basics of English Metre, English Grammar: An Introduction, Essentials of Old English, and Readings in Early English.

I created the technical infrastructure for the Digital Humanities Network and the Medical Humanities Network websites, developed the website and bibliographical database for the Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities project, and I created a digital edition of a Virginia Woolf short story for the New Modernist Editing project. 

There are several ongoing projects that I am involved with, including the Scots Syntax Atlas, Linguistic DNA and Speech Across Dialects of English.

In addition to supporting current and legacy digital resources across the School, I am also available to advise any member of Critical Studies staff who is in the process of submitting bids for projects that feature a digital component.

An extensive list of the projects I have been involved with can be found on the Digital Humanities Network website, and I also write a weekly blog that discusses my ongoing work and has been online since 2012.