-- This page is no longer updated, it represents the status on 31st March 2008 ---- AHDS Case Studies --

AHDS Case Studies illustrate how projects have dealt with particular digitisation issues.


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[Working with the AHDS]
Benefits of collaboration for smaller organisations

A case study on the partnership between the Scottish Traditions of Dance Trust and AHDS Performing Arts

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[The Newton Project]
Implementing and Exploiting XML


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[Fine Art Project Digital Capture Pilot Study]
A case study on the direct digital capture of artworks

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[Digital or Conventional image capture?]
Comparing digital and conventional photography at the Royal College of Art


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[Protecting Copyright]
How one project dealt with its resources being copied without permission


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[Developing Licence Agreements]
Seeking and negotiating the rights to digitise images


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[Tracing Copyright Holders]
Tracing copyright holders of historical material


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[Writing AHRC Bids: The Stone in Archaeology Resource]
Writing an AHRC 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 AHRC Bids: The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi]
How one project wrote a successful AHRC 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]
An archive of 40 years of Shakespearan performance

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[Exeter Cathedral Keystones and Carvings]
A case study in project management

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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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Copyright

* Protecting Copyright
* Developing Licence Agreements
* Tracing Copyright Holders

Text / XML

* Newton Project
* Whistler & Darwin Correspondence
* Canterbury Tales Project
* The Electronic Grosseteste

Technical Appendices / Funding

* AHRC Bids: Stone in Archaeology
* AHRC Bids: Corpus of Stained Glass
* Funding a Digitisation Project: The Great Britain Historical Database

Image Capture

* Conventional or Digital Photography?
* Digital Capture Pilot Study
* Medieval Music Manuscripts
* Suffrage Banners
* Tracing Copyright Holders

Database Design

* Patronage in Rome
* English Landholders
* Gloucester Port Books
* Kircher
* Essex Archaeological Service

Project Management

* Exeter Cathedral
* Collaboration: Scottish Dance and AHDS

Preservation

* Newham Archaeological Service
* Collaboration: Scottish Dance and AHDS

Content Selection

* Lampeter Corpus

Depositing with AHDS

* Imperial War Museum
* Collaboration: Scottish Dance and AHDS

Mixed Media

* Designing Shakespeare
* Theology Digitisation Project
* Wildred Owen Archive
* Evaluation of Wildred Owen Archive

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