Use of existing digital data
project: The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub
Grant Holder: Professor Andrew Rothwell
Phase 1 of the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub project (2002-2004), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board under its Resource Enhancement Scheme, had the following aims and objectives:
to open up for on-line access significant resources that will advance research into the languages and society of medieval Britain and support university courses across a wide areas of medieval studies;
to develop, evaluate, deploy and propagate XML-based technologies that will be of service in many areas of Humanities computing worlwide. [read more]
project: Pacific Pathways: Multiplying Contexts for the Forster ('Cook-Voyage') Collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Grant Holder: Mr Jeremy Coote
Comprising 185+ artefacts obtained on James Cook’s second voyage of discovery from 1772 to 1775, the Forster Collection is one of the great collections of Pacific ethnography. Between 1995 and 2001, I gathered together in a database all the information held within the Museum about each object in the collection. This work culminated in the launch of a website devoted to the collection at . The present project was concerned with understanding the ways in which the Forster Collection is important today, especially for members of ‘source’ communities. [read more]
project: A critical study of the Bailun, Aryadeva's 'Treatise in One Hundred Verses' (Sata sastra)
Grant Holder: Professor Brian Bocking
The project began as a translation and critical study of the Hundred Treatise, a Madhyamika Buddhist text in Chinese attributed to Aryadeva (Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo Vol.30, no. 1569). Investigation of this text ultimately required translation of a far larger text, T1571 (Aryadeva's 'Extended Hundred Treatise' which corresponds to part of the Catuhsataka or 'Four Hundred (stanzas) Treatise'. [read more]
project: Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (UK operations)
Grant Holder: Dr Sarah Hibberd
Compilation of bibliographical information and abstracts of all scholarly writings on music published in all formats in the UK. These are sent electronically to RILM head quarters in New York to be added to the international database available by subscription to institutions and individuals. This phase of the project (RILM-UK 1999-2004) has brought the UK coverage of monographs up to date, thereby ensuring that a great part of the strengths and diversity of UK musicology is properly represented within, and made available to, the national and international community. [read more]
project: A trial electronic edition of the Preface to 'Ancrene Wisse' for the Early English Text Society
Grant Holder: Dr Bella Millett
The project involved the development of a trial electronic edition of a short Middle English work, the 'Preface' to the thirteenth-century rule for recluses 'Ancrene Wisse', in conjunction with the Humanities Computing Development Team at Oxford, to work out an 'EETS template' which could serve as a model for electronic versions of future EETS editions. Since this is a prose work (the great majority of electronic editions of Middle English works are of verse texts) surviving in several manuscripts, it constituted a relatively demanding project. [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: 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: French Vernacular Books: A Short-Title Catalogue of Books in the French language published before 1601
Grant Holder: Professor Andrew Pettegree
The St Andrews French Book Project intends to create an analytical bibliography of all books published in the French language before 1601. It is the first ever global survey of early French books, based on an exhaustive investigation of over 1550 libraries worldwide. It is also the first major national bibliographical project to have been designed and completed entirely in the electronic age. [read more]
project: The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
Grant Holder: Mr Sandy Heslop
The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) is an evolving electronic archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture.
ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE
Romanesque sculpture marks a high point of artistic production in Britain and Ireland, corresponding to the boom in high-quality building that followed the Norman Conquest in 1066, and reflecting a new set of links with mainland Europe. A good deal of this sculpture remains in parish churches and cathedrals, houses and halls, castles and museums throughout these isles. [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]