Accessibility analysis

project: Paradox of Medieval Scotland (PoMS)

Grant Holder: Professor Dauvit Broun

The period between 1093 and 1286 laid the foundations for modern Scotland. At its start, the king of Scots ruled no more than a small east coast realm between Lothian and Moray. At its end, his authority extended over the whole area of modern Scotland apart from the Northern Isles. During the same period, Scotland’s society and culture was transformed by the king implanting a new nobility of Anglo-Norman origin and establishing English influenced structures of law and government. [read more]

project: Clergy of the Church of England Database (CCEd)

Grant Holder: Professor Kenneth Fincham

The Clergy of the Church of England Database aimed to construct a relational database containing the careers of all clergymen of the Church of England between 1540 and 1835. The Database brings together evidence about clerical careers from all 27 dioceses of England and Wales, which are held at 28 diocesan repositories and 23 other archives and libraries. [read more]

Tags: Accessibility analysis Cataloguing and indexing Collating Collocating Content analysis Data modelling Documentation General project management General website development Manual input and transcription preservation Record linkages Resource sharing Searching and querying Server scripting Textual interaction (asynchronous) Usability analysis Use of existing digital data Web browser scripting

project: Strandlines

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Strandlines Digital Community is a King’s College London initiative that explores one of London’s most famous streets, the Strand, and its past and present communities. The project brings together local residents, workers and visitors by means of storytelling. Using digital technologies and techniques from life writing – a creative field concerned with personal life stories – it seeks to foster a more active sense of community in the Strand area. [read more]

Tags: 2d Scanning and photography Accessibility analysis Documentation General project management General website development Human factors analysis Moving image capture Resource sharing Sound recording Textual interaction (asynchronous) Usability analysis Use of existing digital data

project: London Theatre Bibliography (LTB)

Grant Holder: John McGavin

This project combines two independent, but mutually supportive, projects which have complementary outputs: the need for a systematic and complete edition of all pre-1642 manuscript and printed records relating to the eight early Middlesex/Westminster theatres north of the Thames, and the complementary need for an aggregated bibliography which locates, assesses, and digests all printed transcriptions of pre-1642 documents relating to these theatres. [read more]

project: Magnetic moments in the past: Developing archaeomagnetic dating for application in UK archaeology

Grant Holder: Dr Cathy Batt

This project follows on from a previous collaboration which established a methodology for using measurements of the past magnetic field of the Earth for dating archaeological materials in the last 4000 years in the UK. The primary aim of this project is to realise the potential of this research by developing its practical application in UK archaeology. There is increasing interest in using archaeomagnetic dating as part of the suite of chronological tools available to archaeologists. However, it has yet to be adopted routinely. [read more]

project: Who Were the Nuns?

Grant Holder: Michael Questier

The project is a prosopographical study of the English convents in exile during the period 1600-1800 when it was illegal to be a nun in Britain. Key research questions include a broad response to the question 'Who were the nuns?' This involves locating the members in their family, religious, political and economic context and identifying the support networks sustaining the convents over two centuries. [read more]

project: Capturing the past, preserving the future: digitisation of the national review of live art video collection

Grant Holder: Prof Simon Jones

The Capturing the Past, Preserving the Future project has the following aims: To preserve for posterity the unique research materials contained in the National Review of Live Art Video Archive by digitising and maintaining the entire collection; To create an interactive and searchable on-line catalogue, including selected copyright-cleared examples of its holdings; To promote the enhanced research facility amongst the UK higher education, national and international performance research and practitioner communities; Readiness for developing curated programmes. [read more]

Tags: Accessibility analysis Audio interaction (asynchronous) Cataloguing and indexing Coding and standardisation Collaborative publishing Collating Collocating Curation Disk publishing Documentation Graphical interaction (asynchronous) Graphical interaction (synchronous) Human factors analysis Indexing Iterative design moving image Moving image capture MPEG-7 preservation Prototyping Resource sharing Risk management Searching and querying Security planning sound Sound compression Sound editing Sound encoding Sound recording Streaming media System quality assurance and code testing text Textual interaction (asynchronous) Textual interaction (synchronous) Usability analysis Version control Video and moving image compression Video editing Video post production Video-based interaction (asynchronous) Web browser scripting

project: The Prehistoric Stones of Greece: a resource from field-survey

Grant Holder: Professor Clive Gamble

The Prehistoric Stones of Greece (SOG) set out to enhance the research value of survey projects conducted in Greece that had recovered Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic materials. SOG’s focus was to establish a database of stone tools and prehistoric lithics generally and by drawing this material into a common format enhance the resource for a variety of archaeological purposes; in particular academic research and heritage management. [read more]

project: Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad (1870-1950)

Grant Holder: Professor Susheila Nasta; F S Stadler; Dr Sumita Muhkerjee;

The Making Britain Database launched in September 2010. It houses an annotated bibliography of selected materials relating to South Asian artists, writers, activists and organizations in Britain during the period 1870 to 1950. Britain has had a migrant South Asian population for over 350 years, since its early trading encounters with India. But the perception that a homogeneous British culture only began to diversify after the Second World War persists, and research into the South Asian diaspora in Britain has focused predominantly on this later, post-independence period. [read more]

project: Records of Early English Drama, Middlesex/Westminster: Eight Theatres north of the Thames

Grant Holder: Prof. John McGavin; John Bradley

This project focuses on two fundamental research problems: the need for a systematic and complete edition of all pre-1642 manuscript and printed records relating to the eight early Middlesex/Westminster theatres north of the Thames (1642 being the date of the closure of the London theatres by the authorities); the complementary need for a widely-available aggregated bibliography which locates, assesses, and digests all later printed transcriptions of pre-1642 documents relating to these theatres. [read more]

Tags: Accessibility analysis Cataloguing and indexing Collaborative publishing Data modelling Interface design Resource sharing Searching and querying text Textual interaction (asynchronous) Usability analysis Visualisation Web browser scripting