We're pleased to announce that, with the help of funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the raw transcripts of the Parish Clerks' Memorandum Books have now been fully uploaded onto ReScript.
These books comprise a journal of events in the parish of St Botolph Aldgate in the period 1583-1625, as recorded by the parish clerks. Significantly wider in scope than the parish registers, these sources offer a uniquely rich and detailed view into the social and economic lives of the parishioners.
The project will now begin looking for editorial input to help mark up the texts which it is envisaged will offer greater support for deeper analysis of trends. Since the books record the rights of passage of the parish, they offer the opportunity to follow the lives of individuals: their birth, marriage, baptism of their children and their death may all be recorded within the Memorandum Books.
If you are interested in volunteering to mark up these early modern texts, please contact us through the British History Online contact form, using the subject line 'PCM contributor'.
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Showing posts with label JISC. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Monday, 23 May 2011
Welcome to ReScript
Welcome to this new blog, which will be recording the progress of our JISC-funded project to enhance the usability/learnability of ReScript, our new online editing platform. You won't have seen ReScript yet as it's still in development, but the JISC funding will allow us to consult widely with researchers as we design the interface and, we hope, will result in a resource which is intuitive and fully meets historians' needs.
ReScript is being tested using three very different texts in order to ensure that it is sufficiently flexible to cope with the range of editorial activity undertaken by historians. Two of those identified (Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion and the St. Botolph Aldgate Parish Clerk’s Memorandum Books) already have editorial teams in place. The third, Foster’s Alumni Oxonienses, does not, but is an ideal candidate for a crowd-sourced edition, allowing a comparison between formal and informal editorial structures online.
We hope that you will not only follow our progress here, but also feed your opinions in to the project, whether by filling out an online survey or by taking part in a focus group. We'll post details of ways in which you can participate in the coming weeks. Watch this space!
ReScript is being tested using three very different texts in order to ensure that it is sufficiently flexible to cope with the range of editorial activity undertaken by historians. Two of those identified (Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion and the St. Botolph Aldgate Parish Clerk’s Memorandum Books) already have editorial teams in place. The third, Foster’s Alumni Oxonienses, does not, but is an ideal candidate for a crowd-sourced edition, allowing a comparison between formal and informal editorial structures online.
We hope that you will not only follow our progress here, but also feed your opinions in to the project, whether by filling out an online survey or by taking part in a focus group. We'll post details of ways in which you can participate in the coming weeks. Watch this space!
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