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


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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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[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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[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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