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Espen S. Ore
b. 1953

Senior Computing Officer
The National Library of Norway
Box 2674, Solli
N-0203 Oslo

Norway

E-mail: espen.ore@nb.no

Editing medieval manuscripts

Espen S. Ore has been employed at the HIT Centre (developed from among other institutions the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities-NCCH) at the University of Bergen since 1984. From 1980-83 he worked with software development for various projects in the humanities at the University of Oslo, and in 1995 he served as a temporary director for the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB).

He has worked in Greek papyrology and has directed a project in runology which had as one of its result a WWW-accessible database of runic inscriptions from Bergen and an analysis of rune forms using statistical tools has been published Fiona J. Tweedie and Craig Dougan: "Computers, statistics, and the grouping of rune forms" in DRH 98. Selected Papers from DRH 98, Glasgow 1998. He is now serving as director of computing at the project Henrik Ibsen's Writings.

Ore has also worked with multimedia and hypertext and was directing NCCH's part in the publication of electronic transcriptions and facsimiles of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Nachlass, a collaboration project between WAB, NCCH, and Oxford University Press.

Group report 2000-2001

The information on this page is valid as of June 2001