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Item Types

Finding the Celtic contains information about resources related to Celtic Studies that exist on other websites on the internet. It functions like a sophisticated index, allowing you to browse through items, search for items (by settting constraints), collect items, visualize the geographical location of items, and so on.

Finding the Celtic has classified all entries into several different kinds of items (the types facet in the browser):

The other labels in the browser (times, places, stuff and language) refer to other attributes (or "facets") of these objects. By setting a constraint based on facet values, you restrict the items shown in the browser to those that match the constraint condition.

Considerations for Textual Narrative

Items that relate to narrative texts are somewhat more complex than other item types. This is because a single narrative archetype (such as the Táin Bó Cualgne) can produce a series of different versions over a long time span; editors in the modern period can create their own editions of any of the texts written in old manuscripts; translators can produce their own interpretations of texts based on any combinations of previous editions.

FtC accounts for the complexities of the textual history of narrative by recognizing each of these as individual items and recommending the following usages:

There are several items related to the history of the Táin Bó Cualgne in the FtC database which illustrate this usage.


For more details on facet definitions and values, see the Metadata Schema or Contributor Guidelines webpages.

For information about the FtC user interface, see the How to Use webpage.

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