Digitisation Conference 2003: Examining the Impact
Proceedings from a conference held on 7 July 2003 at the Institute of Historical Research.
Session One
Review of a selection of the digital resources available at present and the strengths and weaknesses that these projects have encountered
- Chair: David Cannadine (Institute of Historical Research)
- The Old Bailey online: www.oldbaileyonline.org
Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) - Domesday Book: from 888 parchment folios to
four CD-Roms
Henrietta Pearson (Alecto Editions) - The British Library and British History Online:
actuality and prospects (PowerPoint show)
Clive Field (The British Library)
Session Two
What do scholars want to achieve with these resources - potential benefits and opportunities offered?
- Chair: Harold Short (King's College London)
- A discourse upon method, historical knowledge
and information technology
R. J. Morris (University of Edinburgh) - Space - a neglected frontier? Adding the geographical
component to research in the digital age
Ian Gregory (University of Portsmouth) - DIAMM: development and delivery of a digital resource
Julia Craig-McFeely (Royal Holloway, University of London and Oxford University)
Session Three
The challenges facing scholars wishing to transform their scholarship through the use of digital resources
- Chair: Rick Trainor (University of Greenwich)
- Digital resources: challenging use or users'
challenge?
Matthew Woollard (History Data Service) - Subject and object: national biography online
Phillip Carter (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) - The law remains an ass: copyright and data protection
in digitization projects
Alastair Dunning (Arts and Humamities Data Service)
Session Four
The way forward
- Chair: Seamus Ross (University of Glasgow)
- Digital research: processes, outputs and preservation
Michael Jubb (Arts and Humanities Research Board) - British History Online: a new digital resource
Matthew Davies (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR) - 'The web must be rent': the historian and historical sources in a
digital age
Andrew Prescott (University of Sheffield)
