Data modelling
project: A critical and bibliographical study of stars in modern French film
Grant Holder: Dr G Austin
An invaluable research resource in an exciting new area of French cultural studies the site comprises profiles of nearly 200 Francophone film stars, film descriptions and a database of references of press, radio and television coverage of Francophone film celebrities between 1949 and the present day. Publications selected for the database give a broad social and cultural perspective on film stars and the star concept. General mass-market titles like Paris-Match and Voici are complemented by titles conceived along the lines of gender, sexuality and age. [read more]
project: Privately-owned English urban manuscripts, 1300-1476: a database
Grant Holder: Professor Felicity Riddy
"The project aims to address the following questions:
* who were the private owners of books in late-medieval towns?
* what did their books contain?
* who produced them?
* was there a distinctive urban literate culture?
The answers to these questions will be presented in the form of a database which will provide for the first time a resource for the systematic study of the literate culture of English townspeople, lay and clerical, in the late Middle Ages. The results will be published in the form of a searchable web-based database. [read more]
project: The Material Renaissance:Costs and Consumption in Italy 1300-1650
Grant Holder: Professor Evelyn Welch
"The project explored:
• The comparative prices of different types of goods in Italy over both time and place
• The market for domestic goods such as food and clothing
• The market for objects now considered 'art', particularly panel paintings, metalwork and antiquities
The project aimed to investigate whether the relationship between the marketplace and individual or institutional artistic patronage changed between the 14th and the 17th centuries. [read more]
project: Russian Visual Arts, 1863-1913: Documents from the British Library Collection
Grant Holder: Professor Robert Russell
"Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909 is an online research archive documenting the growth of diverse forms of commentary on the visual arts (particularly painting) in Russia from the early ninteenth- to early twentieth centuries" (from project web site; please see for more details). [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: The Lexicon of Festus: text, translation and full scholarly commentary
Grant Holder: Professor Michael Crawford
"The Lexicon of Festus (de uerborum significatu) is a Latin dictionary compiled in the Roman imperial period which preserves a great deal of priceless information about the history, society, religion and topography of Rome and Italy in earlier centuries. It draws on a rich series of studies by the writers of Cicero's day, who collected and analysed information about the traditions of their past and the institutions of their own day, which they believed were in a state of serious decay. [read more]
project: Bibliography of Scottish literature in translation; pre 1900 project (2)
Grant Holder: Professor Ronald Jack
The Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT) is an online resource that offers an extensive and readily accessible source of information about Scottish literature in translation.
With currently over 25,000 records, and steadily increasing, BOSLIT aims to serve the needs of academic researchers, writers and translators, libraries, schools, literature administrators and general readers. [read more]
project: Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Grant Holder: Professor Dame Janet Nelson
"PASE is a relational database giving access to structured information on all of the recorded inhabitants of Anglo-Saxon England from the late sixth to the end of the eleventh century. It is intended to serve as a research tool suitable for a wide range of users with an interest in this period: whether academics in various disciplines, or local historians, or students in schools and universities, or those exploring the past for reasons of their own. [read more]
project: Lower Palaeolithic technology, raw material and population ecology
Grant Holder: Professor Clive Gamble
"This visual and metric database is the data component of a project funded by a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board between 1999 and 2001. The project was designed to examine Lower Palaeolithic technology and raw material and to use the findings to discuss aspects of population ecology during the period. The time range is from 1.5Myr to 300Kyr and includes material from Africa, Europe and the Near East. The database contains 10668 digitised images of 3556 bifaces, as well as information on provenience, raw material and standard measurements. [read more]