Paradox of Medieval Scotland (PoMS)
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Grant Holder:
Professor Dauvit Broun
The period between 1093 and 1286 laid the foundations for modern Scotland. At its start, the king of Scots ruled no more than a small east coast realm between Lothian and Moray. At its end, his authority extended over the whole area of modern Scotland apart from the Northern Isles. During the same period, Scotland’s society and culture was transformed by the king implanting a new nobility of Anglo-Norman origin and establishing English influenced structures of law and government. Rees Davies observed of Scotland that ‘paradoxically, the most extensively English-settled and Anglicised part of the British Isles was the country which retained its political independence’ (The First English Empire, 170).
As a part of the research a structured prosopography of Medieval Scotland has been created based around an extensive harvesting of data from legal charters of the period. This database is available for searching via the WWW.
Harvesting into online data entry forms of information found in the printed sources.
| Project start date: 2007-09 | Project end date: 2010-11 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Collocating | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Data modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Iterative design | Strategy and project management |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Collaborative publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| Audio-visual interaction (synchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
| Manual input and transcription | Data capture |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Text
Software tools used:
MySQL, Django, Oxygen XML Editor
Source material used:
Mainly published sources for over 6000 medieval Scottish charters made in the names of kings, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, knights, burgesses and others provided source data. Data was harvested from these charters and put into a "factoid-oriented" structured prosopographical database.
Digital resource created:
The prosopographical research resulted in a structured database that is searchable using a facetted browsing method over the WWW. Auxilary textual documents surround the resource. A particular auxilary textual research output is the "Feature of the Month": short articles which allow new thinking and recognise problems and other items of interest that arose from the research.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
MySQL Database; XML
Metadata standards employed:
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), Other
Publications:
Hammond, Matthew (ed) (2011). The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer (forthcoming).
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
|---|
| King's College London |
| University of Glasgow |
| University of Edinburgh |
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| Author(s) of record | John Bradley |
| Title | Paradox of Medieval Scotland (PoMS) |
| Record created | 2010-11-17 |
| Record updated | 2010-11-17 16:52 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/4214 |
| Citation of record | John Bradley: Paradox of Medieval Scotland (PoMS). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/4214> created: 2010-11-17, last updated 2010-11-17 16:52 |