Arts and Humanities Data Service

Case Studies

These Case Studies illustrate how existing and established projects have resolved particular digitisation issues.

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		Writing AHRB Bids: The Stone in Archaeology Resource Writing an AHRB technical appendix for an archaeological project
		Relating the Past: Efficient Database Design Developing a database to deal with a variety of early medieval historical sources
		Writing AHRB Bids: The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi How one project wrote a successful AHRB technical appendix.
		Restoring Harmony: The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music Digitising and restoring faded fragments of medieval polyphony.
		Extending the Suffrage: Digitisation of the Women's Library Suffrage Banners Details of the multi-stepped process of creating digital versions of fragile objects
		Writing under Victoria: The Whistler and Darwin Correspondence Projects Two projects compiling databases of nineteenth-century letters
		Managing Change with Digital Data How the Essex Sites and Monuments Record has undergone four changes of database
		Funding a Digitisation Project: The Great Britain Historical Database The funding history of a large-scale digitisation project, plus some useful advice
		On Digitising Philosophy and Theology: The Electronic Grosseteste Creating a resource for those studying thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Robert Grosseteste
		Spreading the Word: The Oxford Theology Faculty digital library project Digitising a theology reading-list for first year students
		Plotting a Course in Database Creation: The Gloucester Port Books Database Designing and adding data to a database storing pre-industrial customs records
		Designing Shakespeare: Remote Data Creator Capabilities at the PADS Developing a digital resource using remote access
		Exeter Cathedral Keystones and Carvings Developing a digital resource using remote access
		Recounting Digital Tales: Chaucer Scholarship and the Canterbury Tales Project Integrating digital and traditional research methods to answer age-old questions
		Developing a Database Interface: The Continental Origins of English Landholders Creating an interface to suit academics' needs
		Coded Letters: A Database for The Kircher Correspondence Project Structuring and classifying records for a database
		The Lampeter Corpus: Choosing Material to be Digitised Developing criteria to choose which material to digitise from a large collection
		Excavating Digital Data: The Retrieval of the Newham Archive The necessity of documentation and preservation while creating digital data
		Accessed: The Imperial War Museum Art Collection Preparing data in order to deposit it with the AHDS
		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.