Anglo-Saxon Cluster

Project start date: 2008-10

Project end date: 2009-09

The project builds on research carried out on four other projects mentioned elsewhere - PASE, LangScape, eSawyer and ASChart - which collectively provide models for digitising prosopographic data, boundary clauses, charter catalogues and the diplomatic discourse of the charters themselves. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) is developing a new web-based digital resource articulated around the Anglo-Saxon charters as core material, through which the data and the corresponding metadata embodied in each of the component projects will be available together in a thematic cluster. The Anglo-Saxon Cluster (ASC) will serve as a unified point of entry into the individual resources. It will allow users to see contextually appropriate data from each project in juxtaposition, and to access union indexes generated across the data in each resource. It will also serve as a platform for exploring different approaches to cross-searching and integration. The aggregation of data will be dynamic, taking into account the fact that the component resources will continue to be updated and evolve. The project is expected to have a dual impact: in the development of a technical framework for the integration of disparate resources, and as a possible model for gathering textual and contextual information around medieval charters.