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Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Locating London’s Past

A GIS interface for mapping textual and artefactual data relating to the 17th and 18th centuries against early maps of London.

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Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Crime in the Community

Enhancing user engagement for teaching and research with the Old Bailey Online website.

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Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

Connected Histories: Sources for Building British History, 1500-1900

Sophisticated, federated searching of a wide range of electronic sources on the subject of early modern and nineteenth-century British history.

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Completed / Digging into Data Challenge

Data Mining with Criminal Intent: Using Zotero and TAPoR on the Old Bailey Proceedings

This project illustrated how the tools of digital humanities can be used to wrest new knowledge from one of the largest humanities data sets currently available: the Old Bailey Online.

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Completed / Jisc

Scrutiny: A Firefox Extension for Entity Recognition within Research Data

The project developed a Firefox extension called Scrutiny, which scans scan web pages selected by individual users and highlights entities that it thinks will interest them.

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Completed / Dr Sharon Howard (Project Manager – University of Sheffield)

London Lives

A comprehensive electronic edition of primary sources on criminal justice and the provision of poor relief and medical care in eighteenth-century London.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Armadillo: Historical Data Mining

This project used a set of online resources in 18th century British social history to evaluate the potential benefits of Semantic Web technology for Arts and Humanities researchers.

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Alumni Fund (The University of Sheffield) / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Old Bailey Proceedings Online

The proceedings of the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 provide accounts of 197,000 criminal trials.

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