The project website is a major output of the project. It is a MySQL database containing tables on venues, people, companies, films, newspaper and trade press articles. The venues and film locations (mainly for non-fiction Scottish films) are georeferenced. This is used to generate map markers to display on the public page, allowing users to click through from the map to otherinformation in the database. We have used the underlying data in other ways - classifying and comparing layers in response to specific research questions - so we intend to make the raw data available for other film historians. However the 'front end' of the web site will present a simpler interface for public access, with just venues and film locations.
The Estoria de Espanna is an extensive thirteenth-century history of Spain composed under the direction of Alfonso X of Castile and Leon (reigned 1252-1284). It runs from the origins of Spain to the death of Alfonso’s father Fernando III in 1252.
It is the history of the people who ruled the empire and therefore deals with Roman history, the history of the Goths and the history of the Christian kingdoms of the Peninsula after the Arab invasion of 711 which Alfonso regarded as the inheritors of Rome.
It exists in three major versions, two compiled during the lifetime of the king (1272 and 1282) and another during the reign of his son Sancho IV, in 1289.
The three major versions written in close succession to each other reveal a host of anxieties about contemporary events and so an examination of the differences between them can help to demonstrate the value of control of the past in present difficulty.
The Estoria de Espanna is the centerpiece of the medieval Castilian historiographical tradition, the first and greatest medieval history of Spain written in romance, and was originally conceived as part of an all-encompassing politico-cultural project by the king.
As is frequently the case with Iberian material, it is not well known outside the peninsula, and yet its status as comprehensive history of Spain makes it one of the finest examples of late medieval chronicle writing available to us.
The breadth of learning and sophisticated narrative construction of the Estoria make it prime material for the study of medieval narrative history generally and the project therefore has the aim of bringing both the Estoria and the enormous politico-cultural enterprise of which it formed a part to a wider audience.
ELECTRONIC EDITION
The project aims to provide an electronic edition of the chronicle which, by means of a search engine and collation tool, will allow comparison of the three major versions and provide full searching ability for any of the transcriptions. The project will therefore permit access to an important and foundational series of medieval chronicles to a wide readership, both specialist and non-specialist.
It will serve as a resource for future philological and historical enquiry, for example, the presentation of three almost contemporaneous major versions in a manner which permits the scholar to compare them, will allow significant advances in our understanding of the political context of their composition in the thirteenth century. The electronic edition will also facilitate access to the Estoria to a wider audience.
The online research environment will encourage the addition of transcriptions of other manuscripts and also images of the codices in the future, which will guarantee the on-going viability of the project.
This Database contains currently 198 Profiles of individual works of ancient Jewish literature, described according to the criteria and structure of the Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity (which is the subject of a forthcoming monograph, and published as a document on the Project website). Profiles tend to be between 6,000 and 10,000 words long each. A number of other texts will be added (those are already identified by greyed out names). These include a number of (a) individual Tractates of the Mishnah, Tosefta, or Talmuds, which are structurally very much similar to others already represented by a Profile in the Database or (b) individual Targums for which the same holds, and whose literary structures were the subject of a theme issue of Aramaic Studies (vol. 9:1, 2011) devoted to the Project methodology and database. The missing Profiles will be produced in the course of 2012 by A. Samely, P. Alexander and R. Hayward, in order to complete the Database. The completed Database will have some 312 Profiles.
This database includes bibliographical and summary details of over 200 printed sources of Scottish fiddle music from before 1850. Most of the sources are substantial printed collections, but the database also includes some of the hundreds of surviving single-sheet publications. 22 sources have been digitised and indexed complete.
This is a bilingual film database in which the information of the films collected by the project are presented in both English and Chinese, including synopsis, release year, director's biography, director's statement, posters, etc. This information is available to the pubic.
This database provides narrative accounts of the salient historical information on the history and architecture of the individual buildings and sites, accompanied by a full apparatus of references and by images of those buildings and sites.
The sheer number of individual programmes means that creating a union catalogue at item level is not a viable option in the short or medium term. Instead, the Concert Programmes Project aims to create an online database of concert programme holdings in the UK and Ireland at collection level to enable scholars and music lovers to locate material that may be relevant to their research and and interests, and library professionals to identify priorities for collection development and preservation.
Civil War Petitions contains petitions to the state from veterans and their families for welfare payments as a result of injuries and bereavement sustained during the English Civil Wars. It aims to share information on the human costs of this devastating conflict, which continued to affect communities long after the fighting was over.
The database, edited and principally compiled by Dr. Jami Rogers, contains the records of over 1100 productions of Shakespeare to which British black or Asian actors, directors and other production personnel have contributed. The database spans the time period of 1930 - 2015 and tracks casting patterns for ethnic minority performers. It contains information about the production, the media reaction to the BAME personnel's work within these productions, and lists the roles actors have played in the plays recorded. It provides a record of achievements and a statistical framework for analysing shifting professional opportunities over 85 years. The database is a major theatre history tool as well as having the ability to track casting policies from 1930 - 2015.
