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Resource Enhancement awards

The list on this page shows all digital winners of the AHRC's Resource Enhancement up to awards given at the June 2006 panel meeting. If you are on the list and want to update some information, you can email the AHDS.

Links take you to a website or collection related to the project, if in existence. Note there may not be a direct correlation between project title and website. Further info gives more information on the project's methodologies, courtesy of the AHDS' ICT Guides

Dates marked with an asterisk (*) indicate the panel date where the award was given rather than the project start date.

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Panel 1: Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology
NameInstitutionAward startsProject titleFurther
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Prof R ParkerUniversity of Oxford01/04/2001Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
Prof M CrawfordSchool of Advanced Study01/05/2001The Italic Epigraphy Project: Text and Monument
Prof D PeacockUniversity of Southampton04/06/2001Stone in Archaeology: towards a digital resourceYes
Prof B CunliffeUniversity of Oxford01/01/2002The development of the Celtic Coin Index
Prof S KeayUniversity of Southampton01/02/2002Roman amphorae: a digital resource
Prof G BaileyUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne01/07/2002Web Access to Rock Art: the Beckensall Archive of Northumberland Rock Art
Prof R CrampUniversity of Durham01/02/2003Enhancement of CASSS Digital Archive4
Dr Y HarpurUniversity of Oxford01/03/2003Scene details in Ancient Egyptian monuments: Oxford Expedition's electronic database and publications project (c.2960 - 2040 BC)
Prof A CameronUniversity of Oxford01/04/2003Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE), period III (1025-1204)4
Dr D KurtzUniversity of Oxford01/04/2003Classical Archaeology and Art on the Web: the Beazley ArchiveYes
Dr H CunninghamUniversity of Sheffield01/06/2003Generic tools for linguistic annotation and web-based analysis of literary SumerianYes6
Dr M HortonUniversity of Bristol01/09/2003Papers of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)Yes4
Mrs C RouecheKing's College London01/02/2004An Epidoc Corpus of the inscriptions from Aphrodisias in CariaYes
Prof R ParkerUniversity of Oxford01/04/2004Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Asia Minor
Dr A MacGregorUniversity of Oxford01/11/2003*Rationalisation and enhancement of historic british archaeology collections at the Ashmolean Museum4
Dr H HamerowUniversity of Oxford01/05/2004*Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale - Kentish Anglo-Saxon graves and grave-goods in the Sonia Hawkes archive
Prof C S GambleRoyal Holloway, University of London01/11/2004*The prehistoric stones of Greece: a resource from field-survey
Dr D ObbinkUniversity of Oxford01/06/2005*Imaging Papyri at Oxford
Prof J DiggleUniversity of Cambridge01/11/2005*Cambridge New Greek Lexicon Project6

 

Panel 2: Visual Arts and Media: practice, history, theory
NameInstitutionAward startsProject titleFurther
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Dr P CrossleyCourtauld Institute of Art01/02/2001Corpus Vitrearum Medii AeviYes
Prof D WelchUniversity of Kent at Canterbury01/02/2001The Digitisation of the Modern Cuttings Collection, Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature
Dr J GeddesUniversity of Aberdeen01/04/2001The St Alban's Psalter: on the WebYes
Prof S StreetBournemouth University01/04/2001Project to Digitise the Archive of the Independent Local Radio (ILR) Programme Sharing Scheme
Prof A HigsonUniversity of East Anglia01/05/2001The British Cinema History Research Project
Prof M BruceUniversity of Manchester Institute of Technology01/08/2001Digital resource For Textile Arts, Crafts and Design
Prof R MulryneUniversity of Warwick01/09/2001Digitisation of Renaissance Festival Books in the Collections of the British Library4
Prof I WhyteUniversity of Edinburgh01/10/2001Redesigning the City: The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection
Prof J EllisRoyal Holloway07/01/2002TV Times Digitisation ProjectYes6
Prof J JefferiesGoldsmiths College01/02/2002The Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles
Prof V FraserUniversity of Essex01/03/2002Latin American Art: an on-line research resourceYes
Mr C HarrisonUniversity of Oxford01/09/2002John Ruskin's Teaching Collections3
Prof D WalkerUniversity of St Andrews01/10/2002Dictionary of Scottish Architects
Prof M Le GriceCentral St Martins College of Art and Design01/02/2003Improving access to the British artists' film & video study collectionYes
Mr T HeslopUniversity of East Anglia01/04/2003The corpus of Romanesque sculpture in Britain and IrelandYes
Dr J AulichManchester Metropolitan University01/05/2003Posters of conflict: the visual culture of public information and counter informationYes
Prof C BrewardThe London Institute01/07/2003Conservation, cataloguing and indexing of journals held as part of the EMap archiveYes
Mr F GrayUniversity of Brighton01/07/2003South East Film and Video Archive's digital access project
Mr J CooteUniversity of Oxford01/10/2003Recovering the material and visual cultures of the southern Sudan: A museological resourceYes4, 6
Dr J ThomasCardiff University05/01/2004A web-mounted database of mid-Victorian wood engraved illustrationYes
Mr R TaylorDe Montfort University01/02/2004Photographs exhibited in Britain 1839 - 1865
Prof D GanzInstitute of English Studies, University of London01/03/2004Digital catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the Western Collections of the British Library (DigCIM)4, 6
Dr N McKernanThe Open University01/03/2004Cinemagazines and the projection of BritainYes
Ms E EdwardsUniversity of Oxford01/04/2004Tibetan visual history 1920-1950: an online resourceYes4, 6
Dr J Ten BrinkUniversity of Westminster01/04/2004Artists of film: a database and digital archive of Arts Council-funded documentary films 1953-1999Yes
Dr A AdamsUniversity of Glasgow01/11/2003*Glasgow emblem digitisation project5
Prof P S AlexanderUniversity of Manchester01/11/2003*The survey of the Jewish built heritage in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Dr F Ames-LewisBribeck, University of London01/11/2003*The national inventory research project
Prof C HarrisManchester Metropolitan University01/05/2004*BBC North West regional news and documentary film 1966-1985: preservation and research access4
Dr P HollandBournemouth University01/05/2004*Database and catalogued archive relating to the ITV current affairs programme This Week (1956-1992)
Mr E McArthurUniversity of Dundee01/05/2004*The Demarco Archives: accessing a 40-year dialogue between Richard Demarco and the European Avant-Garde
Prof B SmithNottingham Trent University01/05/2004*Capturing the past preserving the future; digitisation of the national review live art video collection7
Ms J KnightUniversity of Luton01/11/2004*Databasing key documents and narrative chronologies of artists' film and video distributors in the UK
Mr I McClureUniversity of Cambridge01/11/2004*Windsor & Newton Colourman's Manuscript Archive: Page-Image Database of Historic Recipes for Paint Making6
Mr J PendleburyUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne01/11/2004*Town and Townscape:The Work and Life of Thomas Sharp
Prof J KanerBuckinghamshire Chilterns University College01/06/2005*Creation of High Wycombe furniture electronic archive
Dr C P MelvilleUniversity of Cambridge01/06/2005*Digital index of Shahnama minature painting
Dr K RattenburyUniversity of Westminster01/06/2005*Online searchable item level catalogue and sample digital surrogate of the Archigram archives
Prof S BrownDe Montfort University01/11/2005*Photographs Exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915
Prof A HigsonUniversity of East Anglia01/11/2005*Anglia Television at the East Anglian Film Archive: A Catalogue of the Collection, 1959 to 2000
Prof S StreetBournemouth University01/11/2005*Central Southern England Independent Local Radio 1975-1986 Digitisation Project6

 

Panel 3: English Language and Literature
NameInstitutionAward startsProject titleFurther
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Dr V SkretkowiczUniversity of Dundee01/02/2001Dictionary of the Scots LanguageYes
Prof C BrownUniversity of Reading01/04/2001The Beckett International Foundation Catalogue On-line5
Dr H OwenUniversity of Wales, Bangor01/06/2001Creating a place-name database in Wales: computerization of the Melville Richards Place-name Archive
Dr K CorriganUniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne14/11/2001A linguistic Time-Capsule: The Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside EnglishYes5
Dr A McDermottUniversity of Birmingham01/01/2002The Johnson Dictionary project
Dr M BellUniversity of Birmingham01/04/2002The British Book Trade Index on the Web4, 6
Dr M WatryUniversity of Liverpool30/04/2002The Science Fiction Hub: a subject portal for science fiction studiesYes6
Dr B MillettUniversity of Southampton01/05/2002A trial electronic edition for the Early English Text SocietyYes
Dr C UptonUniversity of Leeds01/06/2002The Leeds Archive of Vernacular CultureYes
Prof W ScaseUniversity of Birmingham01/02/2003An electronic catalogue of vernacular manuscript books of the Medieval West Midlands
Prof A WarnerUniversity of York12/05/2003The parsed corpus of early English correspondence5
Dr E ClarkeUniversity of Warwick01/06/2003Web publication of the metadata from the Perdita project
Dr A McRaeUniversity of Exeter01/02/2004Early Stuart Libels: an electronic edition of political poems from manuscript sources
Dr J CorbettUniversity of Glasgow01/04/2004Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS)Yes
Prof T Turville-PetreUniversity of Nottingham01/04/2004A Key to English Place-Names4
Dr L BrakeBribeck, University of London01/11/2003*Nineteenth-century serials edition project (NCSE)
Prof J NelsonKing's College London01/11/2003*The language of landscape: reading the Anglo-Saxon countryside4
Dr M LuddyUniversity of Warwick01/05/2004*Women in modern Irish culture4
Dr R PearsonUniversity College Worcester01/05/2004*Digitisation of Lacy's Acting edition of Victorian plays
Dr J JohnUniversity of Liverpool01/11/2004*Retrospective electronic cataloguing, St Deiniol's library, and an annotated database recreating William Gladstone's collection4
Prof E LarrissyUniversity of Leeds01/11/2004*Leeds Poetry 1950-1980
Prof W R OwensThe Open University01/06/2005*The reading experience database 1800-19456
Dr C BurrowUniversity of Cambridge01/11/2005*Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts, Online
Prof W L ScaseUniversity of Birmingham01/06/2005*A digital edition of the Vernon Manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng.poet.a.1)
Prof K SutherlandUniversity of Oxford01/06/2005*Jane Austen's holograph fiction manuscripts: a digital and print resource
Dr L PrattUniversity of Nottingham01/11/2005*The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Parts 1-4: 1791-1815)

 

Panel 4: Medieval and Modern History
NameInstitutionAward startsProject titleFurther
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Dr T HitchcockUniversity of Hertfordshire01/02/2001The electronic Old Bailey Sessions proceedings, c.1670-1778Yes
Prof P RichardsonUniversity of Hull01/02/2001The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: a revised and enlarged database
Dr I ArcherUniversity of Oxford01/05/2001On-line version of Royal Historical Society Bibliographies on British and Irish HistoryYes
Mrs M ClapinsonUniversity of Oxford01/06/2001Catalogue of the papers of Sir Isaiah Berlin8
Dr A PearnUniversity of Cambridge01/06/2001Online calendar of the correspondence of Charles Darwin
Dr P GrayUniversity of Southampton01/02/2002EPPI: Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922
Dr U PagelSchool of Oriental and African Studies01/03/2002Digitisation and Access Enhancement of the Tibetan Dunhuang Manuscripts at the British Library8
Prof C DivallUniversity of York01/04/2002Joining Tracks: enhancing academic access to the National Railway Museum LibraryYes6
Dr K JefferysUniversity of Plymouth01/04/2002Historical database of twentieth century local elections in Great BritainYes
Mrs C WoodlandUniversity of Warwick01/04/2002Cataloguing the archives of the Trades Union Congress, 1970-90
Miss H CreatonSchool of Advanced Study01/05/2002London's Past Online: a bibliography of Greater London's historyYes6
Prof N RodgerUniversity of Exeter01/09/2002Guide to the Naval Records in the Public Record Office
Prof R HoyleUniversity of Reading01/04/2003The Rural History Centre Library cataloguing project: assimilating the MAFFLibrary6
Prof W OrmrodUniversity of York01/04/2003Medieval Petitions: A catalogue of the 'Ancient Petitions' in the Public Record OfficeYes6
Prof D RollasonUniversity of Durham01/05/2003Durham Liber Vitae: A Digital Analysis, Interlinked Texts, Images and Research
Prof C BurnettSchool of Advanced Study01/07/2003A Catalogue of Medieval British Manuscripts Containing Commentaries on Aristotle8
Prof S KeynesUniversity of Cambridge01/07/2003A revised and augmented edition of P H Sawyer's catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters
Mr L GoldmanUniversity of Oxford01/09/2003Victorian Social Reform: A Bibliography of the Published Papers of the Social Science Association 1857-86Yes8
Dr P EllThe Queen's University Belfast01/10/2003From Partition to Direct Rule: 50 years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Papers online
Prof R SharpeUniversity of Oxford01/10/2003Acta of King Henry IYes
Dr I ArcherUniversity of Oxford01/01/2004Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish HistoryYes
Prof D ArnoldSchool of Oriental and African Studies01/04/2004Guide to Sources for the History of Science and Environment in India, 1780-1920
Prof R J P KainUniversity of Exeter01/11/2003*British town maps (Wales and Scotland), 1470-1895: a catalogue and cartographic analysis6
Prof J PalmerUniversity of Hull01/11/2003*An electronic edition of Domesday Book (1086): interlinked translation, facsimilie, databases, mapping, scholarly commentary, software
Prof A PettegreeUniversity of St Andrews01/11/2003*French vernacular books. Books published in French before 1601.
Prof D CarpenterKing's College London01/05/2004*The Henry III fine rolls project
Dr K FinchamUniversity of Kent01/05/2004*Clergy of the Church of England database 1540-1835
Prof J NelsonKing's College London01/05/2004*The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England II
Dr N J CrowsonUniversity of Birmingham01/11/2004*Database of Archives of UK Non-Governmental Organisations (DANGO)
Prof T HitchcockUniversity of Hertfordshire01/11/2004*Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court 1834 to 1913, Online
Dr E Savage-SmithUniversity of Oxford01/11/2004*The Book of Curiosities: An early 11th-century Arabic cosmography
Prof J SecordUniversity of Cambridge01/11/2004*The complete work of Charles Darwin online6
Dr M GreenbankUniversity of Cambridge01/06/2005*Digitisation of the South Asian oral history archive6
Prof M HunterBirkbeck, University of London01/06/2005*Digital library of British printed images to 17002
Prof W M OrmrodUniversity of York01/06/2005*Medieval Petitions: A catalogue of exchequer, chancey and gascon petitions in the national archives6
Dr I ArcherKeble College, University of Oxford01/11/2005*Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History Online
Prof JC BelchemUniversity of Liverpool01/11/2005*Liverpool In Print - An online bibliography of Liverpool's history6
Prof T FraserUniversity of Ulster01/11/2005*'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-conflict Northern Ireland
Mr P HarperUniversity of Bath01/11/2005*Cataloguing and electronic access to archives of British mathematical and physical scientists
Dr D JeaterUniversity of the West of England, Bristol01/11/2005*Wars of Liberation, Wars of Decolonisation: The Rhodesian Army Archive Project6
Dr WJ SheilsUniversity of York01/11/2005*The Records of Central Government Taxation in England and Wales: Clerical Taxes 1173 – 1664

 

Panel 5: Modern Languages and Linguistics
NameInstitutionAward startsProject titleFurther
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Dr Y MatrasUniversity of Manchester01/02/2001Morphosyntactic typology of Romani: database enhancement
Dr D WillisUniversity of Cambridge01/02/2001A historical corpus of the Welsh languageYes
Prof V Worth-StylianouOxford Brookes University31/07/2001CESAR a comprehensive online repository of French Theatre resources in the 17th and 18th centuries
Dr P EleyUniversity of Sheffield01/09/2001Partonopeus de Blois: an Electronic ResourceYes
Prof D TrotterUniversity of Wales, Aberystwyth01/03/2002The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub (Phase 1)Yes
Dr P MercierUniversity of Sheffield01/04/2002The Andre Gide on-line press archive
Dr H NesiUniversity of Warwick01/04/2002British Academic Spoken (BASE) corpusYes
Dr F MylesUniversity of Southampton01/03/2003French interlanguage oral corporaYes
Dr J WatkinsSchool of Oriental and African Studies01/06/2003Wa dictionary and internet database for minority languages of Burma
Dr G TonerUniversity of Ulster01/09/2003Digitisation of the dictionary of the Irish languageYes
Dr S Hugh-JonesUniversity of Cambridge01/02/2004Tibetan-Mongolian Rare Books and Manuscripts8
Prof E TimmsUniversity of Sussex01/03/2004Database of British archival resources relating to German-speaking refugees, 1933-1950Yes
Prof A RothwellUniversity of Wales, Swansea15/04/2004The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub (Phase 2)Yes
Prof P ThomasCardiff University01/06/2004An electronic corpus of medieval Welsh prose
Prof M BannisterOxford Brookes University01/11/2003*CESAR images: a searchable online repository of French theatre images 1600-1800
Prof D SeverinUniversity of Liverpool01/11/2003*An electronic corpus of 15th century Castilian cancionero manuscripts; towards completion of the Dutton project
Dr J ShawUniversity of Edinburgh01/05/2004*A searchable standards based catalogue of the Calum Maclean collection of Gaelic oral narrative
Dr J BainesMagdalen College, University of Oxford01/11/2004*The reuniting of Osip Mandelstam's texts and archives in digital form
Dr P RussellUniversity of Cambridge01/06/2005*Early Irish Glossaries Project
Prof J EversonRoyal Holloway, University of London01/11/2005*The Italian Academies 1530-1650: a themed collection database
Dr B O HuwsUniversity of Wales, Aberystwyth01/11/2005*An electronic version of Peter Clement Bartrum's Welsh Genealogies AD.300-1500

 

Panel 6: Librarianship, Information and Museum Studies
NameInstitutionAward startsProject titleFurther
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Prof S HockeyUniversity College London01/10/2001From Archive to Researcher: a Generic Tool SetYes
Mrs L RichmondUniversity of Glasgow01/08/2003Developing Archival Context Standards for Functions in the Higher Education SectorYes
Dr R MerkinLiverpool John Moores University01/04/2004The Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: electronic catalogue of its archive and associated developmentsYes7
Prof D CharltonRoyal Holloway01/06/2004The British Contribution to RISM Series A/II: Phase III - catherdral and private collections7
Mrs L RichmondUniversity of Glasgow01/06/2005*Empowering the user: the development of flexible archival catalogues

 

Panel 7: Music and Performing Arts
NameInstitutionAward startsProject titleFurther
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Dr J DackRoyal Holloway01/02/2001Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (UK operations)Yes
Prof D CharltonRoyal Holloway01/06/2001The British Contribution to Series A/ii of Repertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
Dr J BishopUniversity of Sheffield01/07/2001A Descriptive Catalogue of the James M. Carpenter Collection of Traditional Song and DramaYes3
Prof A WatheyRoyal Holloway01/09/2001The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)Yes
Dr W EdwardsUniversity of Glasgow01/02/2002Early 18th Century Scottish Manuscripts
Dr G PoesioUniversity of Surrey01/04/2002Dance Data On-Line
Dr S NieldUniversity of Surrey, Roehampton01/02/2003The Mander & Mitchenson theatre collection: enhancing access for research
Dr G WigginsCity University01/02/2003Electronic corpus of Lute music (ECOLM) II
Prof N CookUniversity of Southampton01/09/2003Hofmeister XIXYes
Prof J RinkRoyal Holloway01/03/2004Chopin's first editions onlineYes
Prof L LandyDe Montfort University01/11/2003*ElectroAcousticResourceSite (EARS)
Prof J TyrrellCardiff University01/11/2003*The cocert programmes database for the UK and Ireland (phase 1)
Prof J BrattonRoyal Holloway, University of London01/05/2004*Burried treasure: rediscovering the Lord Chamberlain's collection of plays
Dr S HibberdUniversity of Nottingham01/05/2004*Repertoire international de litterature musicale (UK): phase 2
Prof A IvashkinGoldsmiths College, University of London01/11/2004*Access to Russian Music: Catalogue of published works: Serge Prokofiev Archive, Centre for Rusian Music
Dr L McKernanThe Open University01/11/2004*An International Database of Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio3
Dr S ChoaUniversity of East Anglia01/06/2005*Developing a web-based thematic catalogue: the music of Benjamin Britten6
Dr KM CockinUniversity of Hull01/11/2005*Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database3
Dr S J WhatleyCoventry University01/11/2005*Siobhan Davies Dance Online

 

Panel 8: Philosophy, Law and Religious Studies
NameInstitutionAward startsProject titleFurther
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Dr N ReidUniversity of St Andrews30/06/2001Cataloguing the Papers of Wilfred Ward (1856-1916)Yes
Dr D MiersCardiff University01/01/2002Law making in Wales: an on-line analysisYes
Prof P SchofieldUniversity College London01/04/2003Catalogue of the papers of Jeremy Bentham at University College London LibraryYes
Prof L BentlyUniversity of Cambridge01/11/2004*Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) (Electronic Database of Historical Materials on Copyright from Five Key Jurisdictions)
Prof D C ParkerUniversity of Birmingham01/06/2005*A scholarly digital edition of Codex Sinaiticus, published on the internet
Dr D ThomasUniversity of Birmingham01/06/2005*The bibliographical history of Christian-Muslim Relations 1
Prof P AlexanderUniversity of Manchester01/11/2005*The John Rylands Cairo Genizah Project