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− | * Colin Greenstreet (Co-director of MarineLives) met in November 2017 at the Huntington Library with [http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=10172 Dr Steve Hindle]<ref> | + | * Colin Greenstreet (Co-director of MarineLives) met in November 2017 at the Huntington Library with [http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=10172 Dr Steve Hindle]<ref>Interim President & W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, The Huntington Library</ref> and [http://theshakespearestandard.com/blotted-line-interview-vanessa-j-wilkie-curator-medieval-british-historical-manuscripts-huntington-library-2/ Dr Vanessa Wilkie].<ref>William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval & British Historical Manuscripts, The Huntington Library</ref> |
* The purpose of the meeting was to introduce MarineLives as a project and to begin to explore the possibility of collaboration with the Huntington. | * The purpose of the meeting was to introduce MarineLives as a project and to begin to explore the possibility of collaboration with the Huntington. | ||
* Dr Wilkie kindly agreed to a small scale experiment, with MarineLives and Michael Bennett (Huntington Fellow and Sheffield PhD candidate), for Michael to image a number of manuscript pages from Dr Wilkie's collections. These will be displayed on the MarineLives wiki in early 2018 and made available for collaborative transcription. | * Dr Wilkie kindly agreed to a small scale experiment, with MarineLives and Michael Bennett (Huntington Fellow and Sheffield PhD candidate), for Michael to image a number of manuscript pages from Dr Wilkie's collections. These will be displayed on the MarineLives wiki in early 2018 and made available for collaborative transcription. |
Revision as of 10:51, January 1, 2018
Background
- Colin Greenstreet (Co-director of MarineLives) met in November 2017 at the Huntington Library with Dr Steve Hindle[1] and Dr Vanessa Wilkie.[2]
- The purpose of the meeting was to introduce MarineLives as a project and to begin to explore the possibility of collaboration with the Huntington.
- Dr Wilkie kindly agreed to a small scale experiment, with MarineLives and Michael Bennett (Huntington Fellow and Sheffield PhD candidate), for Michael to image a number of manuscript pages from Dr Wilkie's collections. These will be displayed on the MarineLives wiki in early 2018 and made available for collaborative transcription.
Goals
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Manuscript sources
- 158 images
- The first set of images are of the Humphrey Slaney vs. Thomas King court case (c. 1627-1630). Some of these documents are lengthy, while others are very short.
- The second set of images relate to the state of the royal navy and merchant shipping in England c. 1626-1628
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Digitisation
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Transcription
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