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project: Designing Shakespeare: an audio-visual archive 1960-2000
Grant Holder: Dr Christie Carson
Research Questions and Problems
Can a comprehensive audio-visual archive of performance information encourage further research into performance in English Departments and support teaching in Drama and Theatre Studies Departments?
Can oral history interviews with designers add significantly to the study of performance?
Can access to a large database of digital images based around a design theme encourage greater emphasis on the visual elements of performance for scholars and students of Shakespeare?
What can we conclude about the development of theatre design, theatre spaces and thea [read more]
project: The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
Grant Holder: Professor David Hewitt
The aim of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels is to publish the first critical edition of Walter Scott's fiction.
When compared with the manuscript there are usually in excess of 50,000 variants in the first edition of a Scott novel. Most of these are probably in accordance with what Scott wanted and expected, but the manuscripts were misread and misunderstood, and were subject to light bowdlerisation. Scott himself did not read proofs against his manuscript, and thus did not recognise mistakes when they made sense. [read more]
project: Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project
Grant Holder: Professor Charlotte Roueché
The aim is to publish as many as possible of the Greek inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria online, in order both to provide far fuller documentation than a book allows, and to meet the problems of the dissemination of expensive publications.
In so doing, we aim to develop and establish technological standards (using TEI compliant XML) which other epigraphers can use; we are trying to discuss the project with as many experts as possible, in the UK, US and Europe.
We plan to develop protocols not only for the final presentation of material, but also for collaborative editing and work online [read more]
project: Cinemagazines and the projection of Britain
Grant Holder: Linda Kaye; Luis Carrasqueiro
The project will research the history and output of British cinemagazines, weekly or monthly information films produced between 1918 and 1982. It will explore the ways in which the cinemagazine was used to construct images and reinforce values of British life, particularly films for overseas distribution. The project will add details of 25,000 cinemagazine stories to the BUFVC’s existing British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND), creating a unified record of over 185,000 items. The project will also produce a Researcher’s Guide to British Cinemagazines publication. [read more]
project: Acta of King Henry I
Grant Holder: Professor Richard Sharpe
This project aims to create a critical edition of the acta of King Henry I of England, and so provide a fundamental research tool for the history of the central middle ages whose absence has been lamented for decades past. The edition will integrate with the texts the contextual information on government and local affairs essential to the interpretation of the documents, and will provide a diplomatic analysis of the acta illuminating their form and use. It will therefore allow more informed and sophisticated use of the texts by non-specialists than has previously been possible. [read more]
project: TV Times Digitisation Project
Grant Holder: Professor John Ellis
TV Times is now the only record of many programmes shown on ITV, and particularly of those that no longer exist. TV Times exists in a relatively complete form in only two sources: the British Library and British Film Institute. [read more]
project: The Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Grant Holder: Professor Clive Upton; Mr Chris Sheppard
The aim of the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC) project is to unlock the full research potential of the large and varied archive of the University's former Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, now stored in the Brotherton Library’s Special Collections, by creating an innovative electronic resource.
The core of the archive, on the dialect side, is the material generated by the well-known Survey of English Dialects, which gathered its raw materials primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. [read more]
project: Reassessing ancient Egyptian crops, crop husbandry and the agrarian landscape
Grant Holder: Professor Peter Ucko
The main focus of the project is to provide a well-integrated reassessment of the diversity, distribution and use of Egyptian crops, crop husbandry and the agrarian landscape through the systematic compilation and analysis of Egyptian archaeobotanical data which will also be integrated with the textual, artistic and ethnohistorical evidence for crops and other species in order to create a more powerful methodology for understanding the complex processes of ancient Egyptian agriculture than the use of any single source of evidence alone. [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: Classical Archaeology and Art on the Web: the Beazley Archive
Grant Holder: Dr Donna Kurtz
The original project, a database of Athenian figure-decorated pottery 626-300BC, began in 1979. It was the second in the University of Oxford to be available 'on line' (after Cairns Science Library). From 1992 that database, and others begun from the early 1990s, began to be prepared for migration to the web. The project funded by the AHRB 2003/6 represented the first stage of an integrated multiple database system available on the web; more than 20 databases were programmed into XDB during 2004. Also during 2002/4 the digitisation of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum for the web was undertaken. [read more]