Author: Craig
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The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945
The Reading Experience Database is about 10 years old now. It seeks to gather and provide access to (from a community of scholars) evidence of the history of reading in the UK over a 500 years period (pretty ambitious huh?). It is built on some solid conceptual and scholarly ideas, and has just undergone a…
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
This year is the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire. There are a lot of exhibitions and events taking place around London at the moment. Here is a timely new resources from the Arts and Humanities Data Service (btw. this is just the database files you download). The…
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Genevan Sex Crimes Database
Thanks to Alistair Dunning for the Link Exhibit is a tool from MIT. It “enables web site authors to create dynamic exhibits of their collections. The collections maybe browsed using facetted browsing. Assorted views of the collections are provided including tiles, maps, etc”. It allows anyone to put tabular data online with astonishing ease. http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit…
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What is ICT Guides: Community?
Part of my job here at King’s is to develop ICT Guides into a sustainable community resource. The present version of ICT Guides is built on a MySql database with a JSTL (Java) interface. The new community component of ICT Guides will (initially) be built on a Joomla (or Drupal) CMS (partly because it has…