links

A few links to digital projects using early records, compiled yesterday at the Gerald Aylmer seminar @the IHR, illustrating how digital technology can be used to reflect, explain, illustrate medieval diplomatic – Lucia Duranti would be pleased :

• Henry III Fine Rolls – here is where the ‘diplomatic’ markup gets interesting
• Gascon Rolls
• Early English Laws
• Medieval Soldier project on a surprisingly boring looking website
• The Great Hospital Online – records in context from the medieval hospital of St Giles in Norwich

These projects are wonderful, and are only scratching the surface of worlds of new ways to explore old documents. But what was pointed out repeatedly yesterday is that dwindling numbers of people are able to get to grips with the handwriting, language or structure of the originals, and what wasn’t asked was… how many people actually use this resource?

Lots of exciting projects from KCL’s Centre for Computing in the Humanities here, UCL Digital Humanities here. I had no idea that there was any coordinated aproach to Digital Humanities at Oxford – there kind of is: https://dighumdb.oerc.ox.ac.uk

February 26, 2011 | Categories: link | Tags: archival records, diplomatic, link, manuscripts, online resources, palaeography | Comments Off on links