Historical Hansards: Completing the Jigsaw
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The aim of the project is to digitise more than 50 years of debates from the Upper Chamber of the Northern Ireland Parliament from 1921 to 1972, the Senate Hansard and make them available online as an extension to the Stormont Papers on-line collection. The project adds value to both collections by geo-referencing the place names with coordinates, and enabling visualisation of the debates over time and by place through a mash-up with an appropriate web service. Thus the combined resource will be more valuable that its component parts and it completes the digital availability of historical parliamentary debates for the British Isles.
Production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF files for web dissemination
| Project start date: 2008-10 | Project end date: 2009-09 |
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Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text recognition | Data capture |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| text | Content types |
Funding sources:
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Content types created:
Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Javascript, Google Earth, Omnipage, Fedora, Dojo Toolkit, Spring Framework
Source material used:
More than 50 years of debates from the Upper Chamber of the Northern Ireland Parliament from 1921 to 1972, the Senate Hansard.
Digital resource created:
Digital collection of the volumes of the Northern Irish Senate Hansard from 1921 to 1972.
The website provides a variety of search techniques, subject searching based on individual indexes contained in each Hansard volume, searching by office of state, searching by name, and searching and visualising by time and/or location.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Extensible Markup Language (XML), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, simple (DC)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| King's College London |
| Queen's University Belfast |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Sheila Anderson, Paul Ell |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s) |
| External expertise: |
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| Author(s) of record | Richard Gartner |
| Title | Historical Hansards: Completing the Jigsaw |
| Record created | 2010-05-21 |
| Record updated | 2010-05-26 10:46 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2981 |
| Citation of record | Richard Gartner: Historical Hansards: Completing the Jigsaw. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2981> created: 2010-05-21, last updated 2010-05-26 10:46 |