| -- Case Studies -- These Case Studies illustrate how existing and established projects have resolved particular digitisation issues. You can read these case studies on line, or print them out in PDF formar. To download the PDF versions you need Adobe Acrobat. If you do not have this on your computer please go to the [Adobe]
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[Writing AHRB Bids: The Stone in Archaeology Resource]
Writing an AHRB technical appendix for an archaeological project | |
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[Relating the Past: Efficient Database Design]
Developing a database to deal with a variety of early medieval historical sources
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[Writing AHRB Bids: The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi]
How one project wrote a successful AHRB technical appendix. | |
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[Restoring Harmony: The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music]
Digitising and restoring faded fragments of medieval polyphony. | |
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[Extending the Suffrage: Digitisation of the Women's Library Suffrage Banners]
Details of the multi-stepped process of creating digital versions of fragile objects | |
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[Writing under Victoria: The Whistler and Darwin Correspondence Projects]
Two projects compiling databases of nineteenth-century letters | |
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[Managing Change with Digital Data]
How the Essex Sites and Monuments Record has undergone four changes of database | |
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[Funding a Digitisation Project: The Great Britain Historical Database]
The funding history of a large-scale digitisation project, plus some useful advice | |
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[On Digitising Philosophy and Theology: The Electronic Grosseteste]
Creating a resource for those studying thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Robert Grosseteste | |
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[Spreading the Word: The Oxford Theology Faculty digital library project]
Digitising a theology reading-list for first year students | |
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[Plotting a Course in Database Creation: The Gloucester Port Books Database]
Designing and adding data to a database storing pre-industrial customs records | |
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[Designing Shakespeare: Remote Data Creator Capabilities at the PADS]
Developing a digital resource using remote access
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[Exeter Cathedral Keystones and Carvings]
Developing a digital resource using remote access | |
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[Recounting Digital Tales: Chaucer Scholarship and the Canterbury Tales Project]
Integrating digital and traditional research methods to answer age-old questions | |
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[Developing a Database Interface: The Continental Origins of English Landholders]
Creating an interface to suit academics' needs | |
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[Coded Letters: A Database for The Kircher Correspondence Project]
Structuring and classifying records for a database | |
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[The Lampeter Corpus: Choosing Material to be Digitised]
Developing criteria to choose which material to digitise from a large collection | |
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[Excavating Digital Data: The Retrieval of the Newham Archive]
The necessity of documentation and preservation while creating digital data | |
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[Accessed: The Imperial War Museum Art Collection]
Preparing data in order to deposit it with the AHDS | |
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[Wilfred and War on the World Wide Web: The JTAP Virtual Seminars Project]
Using digital resources in teaching and learning
It is also possible to read an [evaluation]
of the Wilfred Owen resource.
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