The digital archive of the Swedish East India Company, 1731‐1813: a joint project of a university library and a history department

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 328-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margareta Benner
Keyword(s):  
East India Company ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
University Library ◽  
History Department

scholarly journals The Revd George Lewis: his life and collection

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Ansorge
Keyword(s):  
East India Company ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
University Library

Abstract In 1727 the Revd George Lewis (c. 1663–1729) donated a wooden cabinet containing a diverse collection of items, including many manuscripts, to Cambridge University Library. Lewis was chaplain to the East India Company at Fort St George, Madras, 1692–1714 when the contents of the cabinet were collected. The cabinet and its contents are described, as are the interests and activities of Lewis, while in Fort St George. The manuscript collection is described in further detail and the ways in which it reflects Lewis’s own interests are assessed. This investigation throws new light on the Lewis collection, the man, his interests and his life.

scholarly journals From the manuscript to the screen: Implementing electronic editions of mediaeval handwritten material

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Calle-Martín ◽  
Antonio Miranda-García
Keyword(s):  
Middle English ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
English Version ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Electronic Editing ◽  
University Library

From the manuscript to the screen: Implementing electronic editions of mediaeval handwritten material This paper describes the electronic editing of the Middle English material housed in the Hunterian Collection at Glasgow University Library (GUL), a joint project undertaken by the universities of Málaga, Glasgow, Oviedo, Murcia and Jaén which pursues the compilation of an electronic corpus of mediaeval Fachprosa in the vernacular (http://hunter.filosofia.uma.es/manuscripts). The paper therefore addresses the concept of electronic editing as applied to The corpus of Late Middle English scientific prose with the following objectives: (a) to describe the editorial principles and the theoretical implications adopted; and (b) to present the digital layout and the tool implemented for data retrieval. A diplomatic approach is then proposed wherein the editorial intervention is kept to a minimum. Accordingly, features such as lineation, punctuation and emendations are every now and then accurately reproduced as by the scribe's hand whilst abbreviations are yet expanded in italics. GUL MS Hunter 497, holding a 15th-century English version of Aemilius Macer's De viribus herbarum, will be used as a sample demonstration (Calle-Martín - Miranda-García, forthcoming).

Using open access digital archive in scientific libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Kovyazina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
University Library ◽  
Scientific Libraries ◽  
The University ◽  
Foreign Universities

For many years, the open access digital archives have been operating in majority of foreign universities. As a rule, the university library maintains and supports the digital archive. Unfortunately, this practice has stagnated in Russia. What does impede the progress and which advantages can digital archives offer to research libraries? The author attempts to review practical difficulties of digital archive acquisition as well as advantages to the libraries. The solution may be found in balancing the difficulties to be overcome and the spectrum of possibilities the libraries would get with the open access digital archive.

scholarly journals Digitizing the paper of record: Archiving digital newspapers at the New York Times

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110238
Author(s):  
Sharon Ringel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Online News ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
The Times

This study uses three archiving efforts at the New York Times as a means to analyse the newspaper as an archival object. I study the traditional ‘morgue’ of physical clippings and photos, the Times’ joint project with Google Cloud to digitize its photo collection, and the TimesMachine interactive digital archive, which made scanned editions of printed issues from 1851 to 2002 publicly available online. Based on interviews with staff and analysis of documents describing past and present newspaper archiving practices, it is clear that the digital archive is not a comprehensive copy of an analogue original. There are a significant number of documents stored in physical archives that have not been translated to digital, and whose loss would be detrimental to historians and media scholars alike. Moreover, even the documents that have been scanned and made available as digital objects do not perfectly mirror their analogue equivalents, meaning that information loss is inherent to the digitization process. As active producers of the past for contemporary purposes, these online news archives serve as cultural gatekeepers, actively shaping journalistic practice and reframing current events in reference to the past.

scholarly journals Use of GIS for Presentation of the Map and Pictorial Collection of the National and University Library of Slovenia

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata Solar ◽  
Dalibor Radovan
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Web Based ◽  
University Library

<span>The Map and Pictorial Collection of the National and University Library of Slovenia encompasses map and pictorial documents that are part of the national collection. New technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) provide a novel way to display, access, and research the valuable, interdisciplinary holdings of an institution. This paper discusses a pilot, Web-based application that explores the possibilities of GIS by creating a virtual collection of diverse materials. Spatial data are the basis for this digital archive on which other pictorial elements, such as views and portrait images, are connected by hyperlinks.</span><br />

A famine in Surat in 1631 and Dodos on Mauritius: a long lost manuscript rediscovered

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Winters ◽  
J. P. Hume ◽  
M. Leenstra
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into

In 1887 Dutch archivist A. J. Servaas van Rooijen published a transcript of a hand-written copy of an anonymous missive or letter, dated 1631, about a horrific famine and epidemic in Surat, India, and also an important description of the fauna of Mauritius. The missive may have been written by a lawyer acting on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It not only gives details about the famine, but also provides a unique insight into the status of endemic and introduced Mauritius species, at a time when the island was mostly uninhabited and used only as a replenishment station by visiting ships. Reports from this period are very rare. Unfortunately, Servaas van Rooijen failed to mention the location of the missive, so its whereabouts remained unknown; as a result, it has only been available as a secondary source. Our recent rediscovery of the original hand-written copy provides details about the events that took place in Surat and Mauritius in 1631–1632. A full English translation of the missive is appended.

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