Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic
Project URL
http://www.digipal.eu/
Summary
The Digital Resource for Palaeography is funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (FP7). Its aim is to bring the methods and resources of digital humanities to bear on palaeographical exploration, citation and teaching. It involves a web resource which will allow scholars to rapidly retrieve digital images, verbal descriptions, and detailed characterisations of the writing, as well as the text in which it is found and the content and structure of the manuscript or charter. It will incorporate different ways of searching, using images, maps, timelines and image-processing as well as conventional text-based browsing and searching. The palaeographical content will focus on a case-study of vernacular English script from the eleventh century, but the project will allow scholars to test and apply new general developments in palaeographical method which have been discussed in theory but which have hitherto proven difficult or impossible to implement in practice.
Start date
October 2010
Status
Active development
Participants
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Participant
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Role of participant
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Institution
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Department
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Peter A Stokes
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Principal Investigator
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King's College London
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Digital Humanities
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Stewart Brookes
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Research Associate
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King's College London
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Digital Humanities
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Paul Caton
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Lead Analyst
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King's College London
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Digital Humanities
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Geoffroy Noël
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Lead Developer
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King's College London
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Digital Humanities
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Beatriz Caballero
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Interface Developer
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King's College London
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Digital Humanities
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Funders
European Research Council
Disciplines
Palaeography, manuscript studies