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Uncertain Date, Uncertain Place: Interpreting the History of Jewish Communities in the Byzantine Empire using GIS
The presentation will address the problem of how to display uncertain historical data in a web-based Geographical Information System (GIS). In recent years the use of internet GIS has allowed the general public to access large volumes of spatial data. Although GIS has been applied in specific areas of academic...Rees, Gethin
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Indicios de procedencias en libros españoles antiguos de la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
La biblioteca de F.W. Cosens, su dispersión y las adquisiciones de la Biblioteca Nacional de España
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ejemplares del Quijote de la British Library: algunos datos sobre las procedencias de las ediciones de 1604/1605
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Prospects for a Big Data History of Music
This position paper sets out the possibility of a musicology based on the analysis of musical-bibliographical metadata as Big Data. It outlines the work underway, as part of the AHRC-funded project A Big Data History of Music, to align seven major datasets of musical-bibliographical metadata. After discussing some of the...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Bibliographic records as 'Big Data': seeking harmony in music metadata
The collaborative research project ‘A Big Data History of Music’ draws on a disparate array of music catalogues created over nearly two centuries. During that time, many different cataloguing rules have existed; national and international standards have developed for cataloguing printed materials, and, in many countries, separate protocols established for...Tuppen, Sandra
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Unlocking the Wandering Minstrels’ Archive: a case study in creating a database of performances
The Wandering Minstrels Orchestra was an orchestra of noblemen and gentlemen which gave hundreds of private 'smoking concerts' in London and charity concerts across England between 1860 and 1898. Surviving scrapbooks of photographs, press cuttings, programmes, letters and drawings relating to the Minstrels, many of them now preserved at the...Tuppen, Sandra
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Conference paper (published)
Latinised Arabic and connections to bilingual ability
As software support for non-Latin scripts is becoming more readily available, the continuing use of Latinised forms in online discourse highlights an interesting phenomenon. This paper focuses on Latinised Arabic (LA) as one manifestation of this trend. While there appears to be significant variation in the conventions used to Latinise...Aboelezz, Mariam