JISC

Manuscripts Online will be a a sister site to the JISC‐funded Connected Histories (1500‐1900) website and will extend the model of data clustering and federated searching developed by providing access to written and early printed primary sources for the period 1000 to 1500.

The ENGrich project will create a structured system for existing online teaching and learning resources in Engineering disciplines, ranging from static images to interactive animations. The completed set of resources will be used to help innovative and value-added teaching.

Old Maps Online will construct a portal for finding historic maps based on locality and period covered, not just title and publisher; and therefore of value for anyone studying the past, not just cartographic historians. Geo-referenced map metadata will be assembled from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the National Library of Scotland and A Vision of Britain through Time, all in the UK; the New York Public Library, Harvard University and the David Rumsey Collection in the US; and selected European collections. Best practices for defining persistent Uniform Resource Identifiers for historic maps will be created and shared.

The University of Oxford will integrate existing resources for the study of the English folk song and printed ballad tradition. Resources to be clustered are: a corpus of nearly 30,000 ballads, many of them unique survivals, printed between the 16th and 20th centuries, in Bodleian Library collections; nearly 5,000 largely pre-1700 ballads from the University of California’s online resource; and the Roud Broadside and Folk Tune Indexes, comprehensive indexes of the song tradition and references to songs, based at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.

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Kings College London

Linking Parliamentary Records through Metadata

This project will allow for the first time the federated searching and browsing of UK and Ireland Parliamentary papers by defining and implementing a unified metadata strategy for historical and contemporary parliamentary digitisation projects. The project will define a generic XML schema for parliamentary metadata, define controlled vocabularies for key components of this metadata, and produce a platform for a union catalogue of these materials based on the records created.

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The Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum (OVAM) will provide access to a comprehensive set of online veterinary anatomical resources from UK veterinary schools and other institutions. These will be aggregated and arranged in an environment which will make them easily discoverable and usable by a range of different learners.

Stepping TIme explores the mechanisms of linking and clustering historic data related to World War 2 bomb damage maps using geography and time. This will be achieved through the development of a geo-mobile application which overlays the real world with historical data views relating to bomb damage.