James Mill's common place books

Project start date: 2008-10
A three-year Collaborative Doctoral Award to transcribe and digitally publish James Mill's common place books, currently held in the archive of the London Library. The project is also researching James Mill's intellectual history, particularly the period of his close relationship with Jeremy Bentham (1808-1832). Because Mill was raised and educated in Scotland, there is also a significant Scottish Enlightenment context to the project.
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Methods usedCategory
Text encoding - descriptiveData structuring and enhancement
Text encoding - presentationalData structuring and enhancement
Text encoding - referentialData structuring and enhancement
Server scriptingData publishing and dissemination
Interface designData publishing and dissemination
Web browser scriptingData publishing and dissemination
General website developmentData publishing and dissemination
User contributed contentData publishing and dissemination
Use of existing digital dataData capture
Funding sources: 
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created: 
Text
Software tools used: 
MySQL, PHP, Oxygen XML Editor 11.1, OpenOffice
Source material used:  
Digital edition is based on a transcription by Robert A. Fenn of James Mill's four common place books located in the London Library. The books were bequeathed to the Library by John Stuart Mill in January 1872. The transcription has been made up into XML.
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TEI P5 XML
Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery via XSL.
Metadata standards employed: 
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

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UK HE institutions involved:
University of Sussex
UK HE institutions involved:
The London Library


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Author(s) of recordKristopher Grint
TitleJames Mill's common place books
Record created2011-09-19
Record updated2012-12-20 15:07
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/4339
Citation of recordKristopher Grint: James Mill's common place books.
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created: 2011-09-19, last updated 2012-12-20 15:07