History
project: Connecting Historical Authorities with Linked data, Indices Contexts and Entities
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CHALICE seeks to build an RDF gazetteer of location entities extracted from the digitized selections of the volumes of the English Place Name Survey. CHALICE should be a fun challenge in an as yet under-explored research area of historic text mining – tuning grammar rules to do markup that can then be used to train machine learning recognisers, and comparing the results. [read more]
project: The Rural History Centre Library cataloguing project: assimilating the MAFF Library
Grant Holder: Kate Arnold-Forster; Julie Munro; Rupert Wood; Richard Hoyle
The library of the Museum of English Rural Life is the national library for the history of farming, food and the countryside. [read more]
project: Wars of Liberation, Wars of Decolonisation: The Rhodesian Army Archive Project
Grant Holder: Kent Fedorowich
The Rhodesian Army Archive project was set up by the University of the West of England, Bristol, in September 2006, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to catalogue the extensive collection of papers and other materials from the Rhodesian Army Archive, which is held by the Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol. The archive was deposited in uncatalogued boxes at the Museum. However, despite this richness of material, there was no way of locating specific documents, and no organising principle behind the boxes. [read more]