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| − | ==Celebrating our tenth anniversary this year== | + | ==MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022== |
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| − | '''To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of Marine Lives we aim to make publicly available and searchable by the end of 2022 a high quality machine transcription of 34 mill words of English High Court of Admiralty depositions, 1574 to 1688.''' | + | '''We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database''' |
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| − | [[File:Our HTR Goals Revised 11092022.jpg|750px|thumb|left|Celebrating our tenth anniversary]] | + | [[File:Seminar Agenda 05042024.JPG]] |
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| − | ==MarineLives research agenda for 2022== | + | ==Who will benefit from attending this seminar?== |
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| − | '''Marine Lives celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022. To mark reaching the remarkable digital age of ten we announced in March 2022 our goal to publish by the end of 2022 a high quality machine transcription of fifty nine volumes of English High Court of Admiralty depositions for the period 1574 to 1688. This initiative will use handwriting recognition models we are developing for C17th Secretary Hand and links to the first point in our four point research agenda for 2022: | + | '''This seminar is intended for doctoral students, post-docs and early career scholars interested in exploring the potential of English High Court of Admiralty material''' |
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| − | 1. Developing and optimising keyword search algorithms for C17th Secretary Hand in English language English High Court of Admiralty manuscript documents.
| + | Participants will: |
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| − | 2. Completing the next phase of our metadata for the HCA 13/ series. Currently, we have metadata for 22,000 deponents from the years 1570 to 1688, supported by 50,000 digital images held offline.
| + | 1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar |
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| − | 3. Publishing a [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636_Project_Home_Page#Work_product_by_the_HCA_30.2F636_team hybrid digital edition of three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s], taken from HCA 30/636.
| + | 2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions |
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| − | 4. Organising two workshops with the Oldenburg Prize Papers team on (a) Developing a broadly applicable digital C16th and C17th commercial document ontology (b) Forming and developing an online international community to study mariner letters.
| + | 3. Hands on experience of using the database, with free online access to 30,000 images which support the database |
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| | + | 4. Ongoing support for seminar participants after the seminar as they further explore and use the database |
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| | + | ==Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database== |
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| − | ==Creating a Ground Truth==
| + | [[Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database]] |
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| − | '''We are creating a bespoke HTR model to read C17th English Secretarial hand. We plan two models. The first using 500,000 words from our existing diplomatic transcriptions of HCA 13/72. The second will be twice the size, and will add an additional 500,000 words from an earlier volume of HCA depositions.'''
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| − | [[File:Contact Us 10032022.jpg|750px|thumb|left|Contact Colin Greenstreet (Marine Lives) or Holly Brewer (UMD) if you would like to learn more about our work on machine recognition of C17th Secretary Hand]] | + | |
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| − | Below an image showing the first manuscript page from HCA 13/72, which we have now entered into Transkribus.
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| − | [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Marine_Lives_guide_to_creating_a_Transkribus_Ground_Truth Click here] to view pages we are developing to illustrate practical aspects of creating a Ground Truth
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| − | [[File:HCA 1372 f1r GROUND TRUTH 02032022.png|750px|thumb|left|HCA 13/72 f.1r: entered into Transkribus as part of the Ground Truth we are creating]]
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| − | ==Fantasy Early Modern book competition== | + | ==What we would like in return?== |
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| − | '''Announcing a one week FANTASY EARLY MODERN BOOK COMPETITION.''' | + | '''In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:''' |
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| − | '''Rules: List the chapter titles of a fantasy book you WISH EXISTED and post to the [https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg @Marinelivesorg Twitter] account.'''
| + | 1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions |
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| − | '''Winner(s) will be those book titles/chapters which get MOST LIKES ON THE [https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg @Marinelivesorg Twitter] account.'''
| + | 2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database |
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| − | Here is my starter:
| + | * Thematically |
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| − | TITLE: <u>Early Modern Economic Lives</u>
| + | * Usability |
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| − | CHAPTER 1: Talking about work: Early Modern workers describing their occupations and work places
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| − | CHAPTER 2: The melding of work and home and its implications for participation of men and women in commercial life
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| − | CHAPTER 3: Everyone lies: The importance of accurate record keeping
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| − | CHAPTER 4: The role of the Early Modern bookkeeper [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Accounting-Growth-Stripping-Camouflage-Accounts/dp/0712652809 accounting for growth]
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| − | CHAPTER 5: Service driven functional literacy: How Early Modern international trade drove and was a product of literacy
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| − | CHAPTER 6: Risk and probability: How people thought about individual and group risk, and how it affected their commercial decision making
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| − | CHAPTER 7: Free will, contract, indentured labour, enslavement: Concepts underpinning the Early Modern labour market
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| − | CHAPTER 8: How to make Early Modern money (and keep it)
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| − | '''Here's a possible plan. Assemble a group of authors, recruited through Twitter, who will write and publish the Fantasy EM book as an open source online book. The book would be peer reviewed by its readers, and will go through various iterations as readers comment, suggest and offer to improve.'''
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| − | '''If we go with Early Modern Economic Lives (and I'm happy to go with a different Fantasy EM book), I (Colin Greenstreet) would be happy to write a draft of chapters three, four and five, but would need collaborators to write the remaining chapters.'''
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| − | '''What do you think?'''
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| | + | ==What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024== |
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| − | ==New Year's wishes 2022==
| + | '''For the next two weeks we will be adding content to this section to illustrate the potential of the SOLM-2024 database. Today we are starting with Historical Geography.''' |
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| − | '''2022 is the tenth anniversary of the founding of Marine Lives. So here are our New Year's wishes for the next ten years for Marine Lives and for Early Modern studies generally.'''
| + | <u>1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database</u> |
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| − | <u>New Year's Wish One</u>
| + | PEOPLE |
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| − | Digitisation and open licence publication of the C17th manuscript records of the [https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+CLA~2F004?SESSIONSEARCH Mansion House Justice Room] and of the [https://www.westminster-abbey.org/about-the-abbey/library-research/muniment-collection Westminster Abbey Muniments].
| + | * 24,000 deponents with current place of abode at level of parish and town |
| | + | * 2258 deponents with current place of abode identifed and length of time spent at that place |
| | + | * 1675 deponents with place of birth identified |
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| − | <u>New Year's Wish Two</u>
| + | SHIPS |
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| − | Development of AI-enabled search tools for discovery within and synthesis of large scale digitised manuscript collections, bypassing the need for the manual creation of archival metadata.
| + | * 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions |
| | + | * 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership |
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| − | <u>New Year's Wish Three</u>
| + | MATERIALS |
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| − | Implementation of federated search using AI-enabled search tools across multiple large scale digitised manuscript collections
| + | * 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports |
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| − | <u>New Year's Wish Four</u>
| + | - '''We are growing this section on the geography and character of ship ladings in response to the geographical interests of database users. Participants in our online seminar on April 25th 2024 will have a chance to influence this according to their research interests''' |
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| − | Development of Early Modern Material Lives to complement Early Modern Marine Lives, broadening scope from marine to land based occupations, and emphasising the interaction of Early Modern workers with the physical world.
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| − | '''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_wishes,_2018 Click here] to see our 2018 New Year's wishes.
| + | MICROHISTORY |
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| − | '''Please Tweet your comments on our New Year's wishes to [https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg @Marinelivesorg] and share your own New Year's wishes for technologies to support historical research'''
| + | * Depositions related to: |
| | + | - The Royal Exchange (and Exchanges elsewhere in continental Europe) |
| | + | - Customs Houses |
| | + | - Taverns, inns and victualling houses |
| | + | - Private homes |
| | + | - Warehouses and cellars |
| | + | - Wharves and keys |
| | + | - Shops |
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| + | [[File:Length Of Time Resident 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]] |
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| − | ==New MarineLives project: Researching three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s: HCA 30/636/==
| + | [[File:Place Of Ship 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]] |
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| − | [[File:Ship Diamond August 1637 Setting Out To Mallaga f,61r Ratcatcher Image 20212029 145150.JPG|620px|thumb|left|Item: Paid the Ratcatcher: 4''s'' - 4''d'', Account book of the ship the ''Diamond'': setting out expenses to Mallaga, 1637; HCA 13/635/2]] | + | [[File:Voyage Nodal Points TWO 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]] |
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| − | [[File:Account Books 13102021.JPG|800px|thumb|left|HCA 30/636 in all its glory, just waiting for some collaborative work by volunteers]] | + | [[File:Ladings By Geography 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]] |
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| − | '''Are you interested in a startup collaborative online project to look at, partially transcribe and understand three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s? You have come to the right place. Marine Lives is launching a new project and is seeking volunteer collaborators. This will be a project about co-creation of a public resource, which will be published on the Marine Lives wiki and made available to all - public and academic historians alike (and those just intrigued by our past).'''
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| − | HCA 30/636 is a document category which has been created to cover certain papers generated by the Prize Court jurisdiction of the English High Court of Admiralty papers. It contains nine sub-references. We have imaged all the documents within HCA 30/636 and will be making these available to volunteer collaborators online. Documents include three beautifully leather bound account books of various sizes, further paper bound account books, a letter copy book of letters written from on board ship, and various miscellaneous accounting documents relating to multiple voyages. In all we have over one thousand images.
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| − | We are in start up mode. Our current thinking is to make the images available on DropBox or OneDrive and to use this MarineLives wiki as our collaboration platform - to share ideas, to provide support, and to be the vehicle to publish our transcriptions and synthesis. But we are open to your ideas about how to organise this project and nothing will be finalised until we have our team in place. You can get up to speed on our thinking by reading this [https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg/status/1448320605384753156 Twitter Thread].
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| − | We have had expressions of interest from people from many places - Mexico, Michigan, Texas, London, Newcastle to list a few - which is perfect given the virtual nature of our project and the broad geographic scope of the papers which include multiple voyages from England to the West Indies, the Mediterranean and to Northern Europe.
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| − | We will be sending out an email to everyone who has expressed this interest this weekend (Saturday, October 16th 2021), and will invite people in that email to take a look at some sample images and to tell us about their research interests, skills and ideas for this project.
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| − | This is going to be a very relaxed project running through to the middle of 2022 in which people are welcome to dip in and out, and to do as little or as much as they have time and interest for.
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| − | If you are interested in learning more, '''[https://twitter.com/Marinelivesorg follow Marine Lives on Twitter]''', tweet your interest and we will get in touch with you by Twitter direct mail.
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| − | You can also '''[http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/HCA_30/636_Project_Home_Page access our HCA 30/636 account book project home page here]''', which we are starting to populate. Come join us and help us fill in the blanks.
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| − | ==Women and Early Modern record keeping==
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| − | '''In November 2021, MarineLives participated in an online seminar on Women and Early Modern recordkeeping, co-hosted by [https://oieahc.wm.edu/fellowships/fellows-since-1945/postdoctoral/caylin-carbonell/ Caylin Carbonell] and [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Volunteer_research_interests_and_goals#Colin_Greenstreet Colin Greenstreet]. We hope to develop some of the themes of this seminar in 2022'''
| + | ==This is a list of people who are confirmed participants in the seminar== |
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| − | Our contribution to the seminar was to a series of case studies from C17th English High Court of Admiralty depositions, in which [http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/Women%27s_investment_activities_and_record_keeping '''women testify about their investment activities and record keeping.''']
| + | [[File:Seminar Participants 05042024.JPG]] |
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| − | ==About MarineLives==
| + | '''If for any reason you need to drop out unexpectedly prior to the seminar, please give us at least a couple of days notice so we can fill your space''' |
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| − | [[File:About MarineLives 22012018.JPG|800px|thumb|left|MarineLives volunteers, past and present, 2015-2018. [[Tools: Biographies|Read more about them here]]]]
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| − | '''MarineLives is a collaborative volunteer driven project. The project started as a spinoff from a National Archives hackathon in early 2012. We are exploring lives touched by the marine world between 1540 and 1690. Commerce, materials, language and correspondence.''' | + | |
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| − | At the core of MarineLives is the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts from the English High Court of Admiralty, together with thematically related manuscripts from international manuscript and printed document collections.
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| − | In the past ten years over 250 volunteers have contributed to our transcriptions and to our synthesis of the many themes which constitute lives in the Early Modern marine world. Currently, we have {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} text pages and {{NUMBEROFFILES}} images available and nearly six million words of full text transcriptions on the MarineLives wiki.
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| − | We have finding aids for themes as varied as Early Modern women in the marine world; Materials handling; The Early Modern River Thames; Commercial record keeping; Mariners letters; and many more.
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| − | We have also developed a database of 21,250 depositions drawn from the HCA 13/ series covering the period 1575 to 1684, which provides quantitative and qualitative insights into this important series of Admiralty Court depositions.
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| − | '''[[Tools: Basic wiki skills & palaeographical tips|Sample our training material to see if this could be for you.]]''' | + | |
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| − | <div style="font-size: normal;">'''This will be a project about co-creation of a public resource, which will be published on the Marine Lives wiki and made available to all - public and academic historians alike (and those just intrigued by our past).'''</div>
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| − | [[File:Abraham Hardy Account Book Wages HCA 30 636.JPG|500px|thumb|right|HCA 30/636/3 Andrew Hardey's account book for voyage to Barbados in the ship the Abraham- extract from wages schedules]]
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| − | [[File:Abraham Handwriting Sample HCA 30 636.JPG|500px|thumb|right|HCA 30/636/ Handwriting sample]]
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| − | [[File:Abraham Letter Copy Book HCA 30 636.JPG|500px|thumb|right|HCA 30/636/ Letter copy book from on board the ship the Abraham]]
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| + | * Seminar is limited to 20 participants |
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| + | * We will be using ZOOM, with details to be emailed to participants prior to the event |
| | + | * Personal copies of the database to be emailed on Friday April 12th 2024 |
| | + | * Online users guide to the database to be published on the MarineLives wiki by Friday April 12th 2024 |
1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar
2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions
3. Hands on experience of using the database, with free online access to 30,000 images which support the database
4. Ongoing support for seminar participants after the seminar as they further explore and use the database
1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions
2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database
