Text encoding - presentational
project: TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
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TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation.
TAPoR has built a unique human and computing infrastructure for text analysis across Canada by establishing six regional centers to form one national text analysis research network. One of the major projects of the network was the development of the portal. This portal is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. [read more]
project: Reconstructing the Quseiri Arabic Documents (RQAD)
Grant Holder: Professor Dionisius Agius
The research objective is to read or reconstruct the Arabic documents found at the harbour town of Quseir on the Egyptian Red Sea coast during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (13th-15th centuries)
ie:
a) to evaluate the texts combined with archeological enquiry;
b) to examine the content and context within the framework of the long distance trade and pilgrim traffic from Quesir as a chief port of the Red Sea region and its trade contacts with the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
c) to raise public and scholarly awareness about the significance of the documents as a source of academic, ed [read more]
project: The clergy of the Church of England database, 1540-1835
Grant Holder: Professor Kenneth Fincham
The Clergy of the Church of England Database was established in October 1999 with a grant of £529,000 over five years from the Arts and Humanities Research Board. Its objective is to construct a relational database containing the careers of all clergymen of the Church of England between 1540 and 1835. [read more]
project: Dynamic encoding of historical documents: people, property and rights in 18th century Corsican notaries acts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]
The UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS) is a software system developed to undertake the automatic semantic analysis of text. It has been in use since 1990 when it was developed as part of a project to analyse large bodies of transcribed spoken interviews.project: The Online Froissart Project
Grant Holder: Professor PF Ainsworth
The Online Froissart is a joint project based in the French Departments of the Universities of Sheffield and Liverpool. It is delivering an interactive, searchable edition of Books I-III of Jean Froissart's Chronicles, the most important prose history in French of the Hundred Years' War, covering the years 1325-1390. [read more]
project: Multidimensional Visualisation of Archival Finding Aids
Grant Holder: Dr Ian Anderson
As more archival finding aids, of increasing complexity, become available online the difficulty of seeing the 'wood from the trees' increases. This is particularly the case when these are implemented in EAD (Encoded Archival Description). In part, this is caused by the inherent difficulty of navigating hierarchical structures (the need go back up and across before you can go down again) but also a symptom of the lack of innovation in visualising archival information. [read more]
project: Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690-1800
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Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690-1800 aims to create a digital archive of manuscript and printed sources concerning the lives of ordinary people in eighteenth-century London, focusing on poor relief, criminal justice, and medical care. It also integrates existing electronic resources, making use of recent technical advances in the analysis of multiple digital sources. The result will be a freely-available web-based resource enabling the reconstruction of ‘ordinary’ lives in the round, rather than as documented in single contacts with administrative bodies. [read more]
project: From Partition to Direct Rule: 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online (Stormont Papers)
Grant Holder: Dr Paul Ell
Casting a unique and valuable light on the development of Northern Ireland,
the Papers consist of the Parliamentary Papers of the devolved government of
Northern Ireland from June 7 1921 to the dissolution of Parliament in March
28 1972. They make up 84 printed volumes - around 93,000 pages and 74
million words. Based on the model of British Hansard, the papers record the
utterances of MPs sitting at the Stormont Parliament within the first period
of Home Rule.
Up to now, the few surviving sets of complete volumes could only be
consulted within their relevant library. [read more]