Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
project: Digitisation and Access Enhancement of the Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts at the British Library
Grant Holder: Dr Sam Vanschaik; Dr Jacob Dalton
"Following extensive excavations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tens of thousands of manuscripts, paintings, textiles and other artefacts dating from 100 BC - AD 1200 were found in the Library Cave at Dunhuang and at numerous other ancient Silk Road cities, temples and tombs in the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. These constitute a fragile but very rich source of information about religion, art, history, politics, trade, science, culture and social life on the Eastern Silk Road around the first millennium AD. [read more]
project: CURSUS An On-line Resource of Medieval Liturgical Texts
Grant Holder: Mr David Francis Lanfear Chadd
The purpose of the CURSUS project is to employ the Extensible Markup Language (XML), together with transformations performed by the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT), to make data from sources of medieval Latin liturgy available on the Web. [read more]
project: Urban connectivity in Iron-Age and Roman Southern Spain
Grant Holder: Professor Simon Keay
The Urban Connectivity in Iron Age and Roman southern Spain Project, funded by the AHRC between 2002 and 2005 with subsequent support by the University of Southampton and institutions in Seville, has been studying changing social, economic and geographical relationships between some 195 towns and nucleated settlements in central and western Baetica between c.500 BC and AD 200. The project has the following five research questions, based on data gathered in the field and through archival research between 2002 and 2008:
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project: TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
Grant Holder:
TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation.
TAPoR has built a unique human and computing infrastructure for text analysis across Canada by establishing six regional centers to form one national text analysis research network. One of the major projects of the network was the development of the portal. This portal is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. [read more]
project: The clergy of the Church of England database, 1540-1835
Grant Holder: Professor Kenneth Fincham
The Clergy of the Church of England Database was established in October 1999 with a grant of £529,000 over five years from the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Its objective is to construct a relational database containing the careers of all clergymen of the Church of England between 1540 and 1835. [read more]
project: The Perdita Project: Early modern women's manuscript compilations
Grant Holder: Dr Elizabeth Rosemary Clarke
The Perdita Project
* is a collaborative project funded until 2005 by the AHRB in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University and Warwick University.
* has produced an online guide to over 500 manuscript compilations in collections around the world.
* is a research tool for historians and literary scholars.
The Perdita Project, established in January 1997 by Nottingham Trent University, has purchased a microfilm collection of about 400 manuscripts compiled by women in the British Isles. [read more]
project: The Online Froissart Project
Grant Holder: Professor PF Ainsworth
The Online Froissart is a joint project based in the French Departments of the Universities of Sheffield and Liverpool. It is delivering an interactive, searchable edition of Books I-III of Jean Froissart's Chronicles, the most important prose history in French of the Hundred Years' War, covering the years 1325-1390. [read more]
project: A critical edition of the Acts and Monuments by John Foxe
Grant Holder: Mike Pidd
John Foxe’s famous ‘Book of Martyrs’ is a foundation text for the English Reformation. Its vision has profoundly influenced English culture. This project completes the task of making the whole of Foxe’s text available in an innovative on-line edition in which specialists and non-specialists alike can appreciate the ways in which Foxe sought to counter his critics, absorb new materials, and justify the protestant reformation to his contemporaries. In Books 1-9, Foxe put this reformation into its deeper historical, ecclesiastical and theological perspective. [read more]
project: John Ruskin's Teaching Collections
Grant Holder: Mr Colin Harrison; Mr Rupert Shephard
This two-year project presented via the Web, a fully searchable and browsable catalogue linked to digitized images of John Ruskin's 'Teaching Collections' held in the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. The interface presents users with a means of linking Ruskin's original catalogues of his collection with modern catalogue information, presenting the entire Oxford-based collection as a single resource: as some of the original collections have now been dispersed under individual artist categories, the project virtually reassembled them in Ruskin's original sequences. [read more]
project: A corpus-based study of speech, thought and writing presentation in contemporary spoken British English
Grant Holder: Professor Mick Short
The Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation Spoken Corpus has been built as part of an AHRB-funded project to investigate the nature of speech, writing and thought presentation (SW&TP) in contemporary spoken British English. [read more]