General website development
project: Electronic corpus of Lute music (ECOLM) II
Grant Holder: Professor Geraint Wiggins
ECOLM is a web-accessible user-friendly digital scholarly resource centred around the musicology of the lute. By means of a guided interface, it supplies professional and amateur users with effective and efficient search methods (using words or music as queries) over a database comprising over 2000 pieces of lute music, which can be retrieved, viewed in tablature and (given a suitable computer) played back, without the need to understand specialist computer code. [read more]
project: Study of Norse-Celtic place-names in the frontier zone of the medieval province of Moray. A pilot project for the Scottish place-name database
Grant Holder: Dr Simon Taylor
The place-names were collected as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Board-funded (AHRB) ‘Norse-Gaelic Frontier Project, which ran from autumn 2000 to summer 2001, the full details of which are published as Crawford and Taylor 'The Southern Frontier of Norse Settlement in North Scotland: Place-Names and History’ (2003). Its main aim was to explore the toponymy of the drainage basin of the River Beauly, especially Strathglass, with a view to establishing the nature and extent of Norse place-name survival along what had been a Norse-Gaelic frontier in the 11th century. [read more]
project: The Canterbury Tales Project
Grant Holder: Dr Peter Robinson
The Canterbury Tales Project aims to investigate the textual tradition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales to achieve a better understanding of the history of its composition and publication before 1500. [read more]
project: The Edinburgh Historical Linguistic Atlases & Text Corpora: Early Middle English and Older Scots (2)
Grant Holder: Mr Derek Britton
The principal aims of the project are to produce two historical linguistic atlases: A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, 1150-1300 (LAME) and A Linguistic Atlas of Older Scots phase I 1380-1500 (LAOS). These atlases follow «A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English» (LALME), ed. Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels and Michael Benskin (Aberdeen: AUP, 1986). In the periods covered by these atlases, neither English nor Scots were written in a standard form. Written forms are characterized by variation – different spellings of ‘the same’ word or morpheme. [read more]
project: Mapping the medieval urban landscape: Edward I's 'new towns' of England and Wales
Grant Holder: Dr Keith Lilley
This project employed modern spatial technologies to explore how towns were formed in the middle ages. Its focus was on a group of 'new towns' established in England and Wales in the later thirteenth century during the reign of King Edward I. [read more]
project: The digital and computer-based arts in the United Kingdom from their origins to 1980
Grant Holder: Dr Charles Gere
CACHe is a major research project into the origins and history of British computer arts.
We are based at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. The substantial government funding for our project indicates the level of interest in creating an historical framework for this period. CACHe began its work in 2002.
CACHe is investigating the early days of the computer arts in the UK from their origins in the 1960s to the 1980s, when the first personal computers began to be used. [read more]
project: Web Access to Rock Art: the Beckensall Archive of Northumberland Rock Art
Grant Holder: Dr Aron Mazel
Beckensall’s archive of Northumberland rock art has provided the inspiration for the development of a unique interactive, database-driven website, which provides virtual access to this cultural resource. It is believed to be the most detailed website of its kind globally. [read more]
project: A Shape Retrieval System for Watermark Images
Grant Holder: Professor John Eakins
The Institute for Image Data Research and the Conservation Unit, School of Humanities, within the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, were awarded funds by the Arts and Humanities Research Board to undertake this project, which ran from 1st October 2000 to 31st March 2002.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The overall aim of the project was to research a variety of techniques designed to improve the accessibility of historical watermark images in paper to researchers and scholars.
Our specific objectives were:
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project: Dynamic encoding of historical documents: people, property and rights in 18th century Corsican notaries acts
Grant Holder: Professor Michael Fischer
The project aimed to develope and evaluate portable and transparent methods and tools based on SGML/XML for managing complex document collections. As a test case we examined patterns of co-operation and disagreement between people as expressed in legal documents of the 18th century from southern Corsica concerning rights over property. Our approach aimed to relate coding, modelling, interpretation and catalogue entries with the source material, resulting in a layered representation that includes references to as much of the research context as possible. [read more]
project: The British Book Trade Index on the Web
Grant Holder: Dr Maureen Bell
The British Book Trade Index is a computerised index of the names, brief biographical and trade details of all those who worked in the English and Welsh book trades and were at work before 1852. It includes not only printers, publishers and booksellers but also stationers, papermakers, engravers, auctioneers, ink-makers, pen and quill sellers, etc., so that the trade may be studied in the context of allied trades.
BBTI began in 1983 and in 2002, at the beginning of the AHRB-funded BBTI on The Web Project, it contained c.70,000 records, each of 25 fields. [read more]