PHILORD

The new information technologies have had a major impact on the research-development-innovation ecosystem, giving it an unprecedented dynamics during over the last two decades. In this context of widespread digitization, philological research has also been part of a large-scale process of reshaping its own heuristic strategies, aiming to reconcile classical research methods and resources with new information technologies, a direction known today as "Digital Humanities".

In Romania, this line of research responded promptly to this new challenge, taking over and adapting to its own specifics some methodological directions developed at the international level, but also successfully innovating in many areas. Lexicography and geolinguistics represent two such fields in which researchers from the academic centre in Iași have made important contributions towards the digitization of specific research tools, running since the early 2000s some pilot projects focused on the development of dictionaries and linguistic atlases in digital format (CLRE – https://clre.solirom.ro/, ALAB – https://philippide.ro/alab/).

The purpose of this project is that, through exchanges of best practices and knowledge transfer, all this experience of over 20 years of the Iași researchers will be shared with colleagues from the Republic of Moldova. This goal will be implemented through a collaboration between the two teams from Iași and Chișinău in order to realize critical editions in digital format and Latin alphabet of two significant works for Romanian linguistics: Atlasul lingvistic moldovenesc, published between 1968–1973 in Chișinău using the Cyrillic alphabet, and Disionăraş românesc de cuvinte tehnice şi altele greu de înţeles, published in 1851 in Iași by Teodor Stamati, using the Romanian transitional alphabet. This cooperation between the two teams will ultimately contribute to a stronger integration of research from both sides of the Prut River into the European research ecosystem.