Coding and standardisation
project: ICTGuides
Grant Holder: Sheila Anderson
The ICTGuides project is now incorporated within this project (arts-humanities.net).
Two developments gave birth to the ICTGuides database: an increase in the use of ICT in arts and humanities research and an awareness that information on how ICT is used in arts-humanities research is not readily available online. [read more]
project: Tibetan visual history 1920-1950: an online resource
Grant Holder: Dr Clare Harris; Dr Elizabeth Edward; Haas Esset
The Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum together hold extraordinarily rich, and overlapping, collections of over 6,000 historical photographs of Tibet taken between 1920 and 1950. Conceived by their photographers as a unified visual resource, the photographs chart a crucial period in Tibetan history and in Anglo-Tibetan relations. More importantly the photographs constitute a vital record of Tibetan culture destroyed since the Chinese occupation. [read more]
project: Historical database of twentieth century local elections in Great Britain
Grant Holder: Professor Michael Thrasher
The aim of the proposal was to facilitate outside access to a local elections database that provides as comprehensive coverage as possible of local elections in Britain throughout the twentieth century. Plymouth University's Local Elections Centre had earlier collated in database form the results of some 120,000 local authority ward elections since 1973. [read more]
project: From Archive to Researcher: a Generic Tool Set
Grant Holder: Professor Susan Hockey
There were two major aims in the LEADERS (Linking EAD to Electronically Retrievable Sources) project:
1.To carry out research on the needs of users of archive and records collections
2.To develop a toolset to deliver finding aids, transcriptions and digital images of archives over the Internet
The Internet makes it possible for finding aids (metadata about archives) to be accessed electronically, most often using the Encoded Archival Description (EAD), a standard for electronic finding aids. [read more]
project: The Vindolanda writing -tablets: edition with commentary and electronic database
Grant Holder: Professor Alan Bowman
The principal aim of the project was to offer a complete electronic publication of the Latin writing-tablets from Vindolanda published by A.K.Bowman and J.D.Thomas in Tabulae Vindolandenses I-II (1983 and 1994), supplemented by the addenda and corrigenda from volume III (2003). The publication includes all text and commentaries, together with a full photographic record and accompanying historical and archaeological essays. [read more]
project: Palaeopathology and the origins and evolution of horse husbandry
Grant Holder: Professor Graeme Barker
A collaborative, interdisciplinary project, rooted in archaeology and employing veterinary science to identify osteological differences between riding, traction and free-living horses, resulting from their different life-ways, in order to further our understanding of the origins and evolution of horse husbandry. Two analytical methods are employed:
1) A detailed comparative study of skeletons from a wide range of sources, both modern and ancient. We are examining samples from 3 populations of modern horses (free-living Exmoor ponies, Lithuanian draught horses, and riding ponies. [read more]
project: Developing Archival Context Standards for Functions in the Higher Education Sector
Grant Holder: Mrs Lesley Richmond
The project is carrying out research into the potential impact of a functional approach to archival description. It is verifying new ways of accessing archival information by identifying and describing the functions and activities of Scottish Higher Education Institutions from the fifteenth century to the present day, flagging up relevant archival records held in Scottish Universities and Colleges. [read more]
project: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS)
Grant Holder: Professor John Corbett
SCOTS uses computer technology and the web to bring a unique electronic collection of Scots and Scottish English texts to scholars and the public. The resource contains written and spoken material, the latter with online audio/video clips, stored in a database along with extensive metadata. Linguists can investigate where particular words and phrases are used, and by whom. Displayed alongside the texts is a range of information about authors and speakers, so that it is possible to search for, e.g., “audio clips featuring Ayrshire women under 40”. [read more]
project: The Science Fiction Hub: a subject portal for science fiction studies
Grant Holder: Dr Maureen Watry
The SF Hub is an online subject portal for science fiction studies. It aims to facilitate research into science fiction and its related literary genres.
The Project has three components: Indexing the contents of un-indexed periodicals and amateur publications; Compiling web guides; Integration of these resources with the existing catalogue of science fiction books.
The SF Hub is based on the research resources in the Science Fiction Collections of The University of Liverpool's Special Collections and Archives, including the Science Fiction Foundation Collection. [read more]
project: Merv, Central Asian city: a programme of ceramic analyses
Grant Holder: Tim Williams
The project explored the changing types and styles of pottery found at the ancient cities of Merv (now in Turkmenistan, Central Asia), one of the great urban centres of the Silk Roads. [read more]