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	What is BBC Domesday?
		The BBC Domesday Project was a landmark multimedia resource which was produced to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday book.
		BBC Domesday was fantasically innovative and it was organised on a scale which has not been seen since.
		BBC Domesday was produced by a collaboration between the BBC, Acorn, Philips and Logica.
	www.si.umich.edu /CAMILEON/domesday/what.html (620 words)

	BBC Domesday Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC (with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme) to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England.
		A new multimedia edition of Domesday was compiled between 1984 and 1986 and published in 1986.
		The project was stored on adapted laserdiscs in the LaserVision Read Only Memory (LV-ROM) format, which contained not only analog video and still pictures, but also digital data, with 300 MB of storage space on each side of the disc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project (649 words)

	Main Articles: 'Domesday Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday Project videodiscs', Ariadne Issue 36
		Domesday Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday Project videodiscs
		The National Archives first became interested in the preservation of the BBC Domesday videodisc data at the launch of the Digital Preservation Coalition [11] at the House of Commons on 27 February 2002.
		The Domesday Project [14] made a lasting impression on many people who took part including Adrian's wife Sally, who led one of the data collection teams with a group of teacher training students from the University of Brighton.
	www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue36/tna (3498 words)

	Services for professionals \| 1986 Domesday Community
		The National Archives have recently unveiled a new version of the BBC Domesday project in the archives library at Kew.
		The BBC Domesday project was a national project carried out between 1984 and 1986 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book.
		The BBC Domesday project was incredibly innovative for the time and was organised on a scale that has not been seen before or since.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /preservation/research/domesday.htm (402 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Digital Domesday book unlocked
		The project was developed by the BBC to create a computer-based, multimedia version of the Domesday Book, marking the 900th anniversary of the 1086 archive.
		By contrast, the original Domesday Book, an inventory of England compiled in 1086 by Norman monks, is in fine condition in the Public Record Office in Kew, London.
		The software and hardware needed to access the Domesday discs is to be deposited at the Public Record Office once the project is completed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/2534391.stm (443 words)

	Electronic Medievalia
		The project was conceived of as a multimedia experience and its various components-text, video, maps, statistical information-often acquired meaning from their interaction, juxtaposition, sequencing, and superimposition (Finney 1986, "Using Domesday"; see also Camileon 2003b).
		In order to preserve the project as a coherent whole, indeed, engineers at Camileon have had to reproduce not only the project's content but also the look and feel of the specific software environment in which it was intended to be searched and navigated (Camileon 2003b).
		Their project was a pioneering experiment in multimedia organisation and presentation and put together in the virtual absence of now standard international languages for the design and dissemination of electronic documents and multimedia projects -- many of which, indeed, were in their initial stages of development at the time the BBC project went to press.
	www.mun.ca /mst/heroicage/issues/7/ecolumn.html (2964 words)

	RLG DigiNews February 15, 2003, Volume 7, Number 2, Feature Article 3
		In December 2002 a group convened at the University of Leeds to demonstrate and discuss CAMiLEON's work in preserving the BBC Domesday project[1] (a social record of UK life in the 1980s[2]), which is now in danger of being lost through technological obsolescence.
		BBC Domesday was created to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Domesday book of 1086, the original record of William the Conqueror's survey of England.[3]
		The BBC put together a team of around sixty staff to develop the project and recruited pupils from over half the schools in the country to help produce the content.
	www.rlg.org /preserv/diginews/v7_n2_feature3.html (2180 words)

	Humbul Record : BBC Domesday
		This is part of the project Web site for CAMiLEON describing their work to rescue and preserve the BBC Domesday digital resource created in the 1980s, by the implementation of an emulation strategy.
		The BBC Domesday Project was produced to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday book.
		However, BBC Domesday is frequently used to illustrate the problems of digital obsolescence, because until the work of CAMiLEON the resource could not be viewed as the required software and hardware had become obsolete.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full3.php?id=6787 (269 words)

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		If piracy of materials from the project had been widespread--that is, if users had possessed the technical means to violate their licence conditions by copying what they wanted--most or all of the raw material of the project would be available to us in some form.
		As is well known, the BBC routinely wiped and reused tapes of radio and television programmes from the 1950s and 1960s, and in many cases the only surviving copies are illegal pirated recordings made off-the-air by listeners and viewers and stored at home.
		It is important that we do not repeat the fiasco of the BBC Domesday project, in which what we might call 'edition one', the 950-year old paper version, turned out to have a longevity 100 times as great as that of 'edition two', the digital version, which was unusable within a decade of its creation.
	www.gabrielegan.com /publications/Egan2005i.htm (1901 words)

	Stanford in the Vale - The BBC Domesday 1986 Project
		Stanford in the Vale - The BBC Domesday 1986 Project
		The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England.
		The project was stored on adapted laserdiscs, and to view the discs, an Acorn BBC Master connected to a specially adapted laserdisc player was required.
	www.stanford-in-the-vale.co.uk /domesday.shtml (2606 words)

	Is your data safe? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Two projects were launched to ensure their safety: the first by CAMiLEON; the second jointly by the BBC, LongLife Data Ltd, ATSF and The National Archives.
		The TNA project was based on a migration strategy but also using a degree of new technology to enhance the quality of the original material because TNA wanted to provide public access, and preferred the best possible quality of service for this.
		Before the start of the BBC's work on this, and the PRESTO project, all broadcast archive material from the beginning of broadcasting to roughly the 1980s was seen as being at risk, and the need to do something about it was becoming more urgent each year.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /its/newsletter/2005/08/datasafe3.html (1115 words)

	The Icon Bar: BBC Domesday online
		Now this is something I didn't expect to see for quite a while - the BBC Domesday project has been resurrected online and made freely accessible to the general public.
		They haven't preserved the original BBC interface, instead implementing a groovy four panel window allowing various bits of content to be displayed simultaneously.
		Domesday Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday Project videodiscs (Ariadne)
	www.iconbar.com /BBC_Domesday_online/news609.html (230 words)

	Techzonez - Digital Domesday book unlocked
		A rich digital archive of British life in the 1980s has been brought back to life by researchers from the UK and the US.They have developed a way to access the information gathered by the BBC's Domesday project which had been stored on outdated technology.
		The Domesday Project highlights the problems of digital preservation.Databases recorded in old computer formats can no longer be accessed on new generation machines, while magnetic storage tapes and discs have physically decayed, ruining precious databases.
		The information gathered by the Domesday Project has been inaccessible for 16 years.
	www.techzonez.com /print.php?id=40 (305 words)

	The Icon Bar - News: CAMiLEON: Emulation and BBC Domesday
		On Monday, 2nd December 2002, a meeting was held to demonstrate and discuss CAMiLEON's work in preserving the BBC Domesday project (a social record of UK life in the 1980s).
		The BBC put together a team of around 60 staff to develop the project and recruited pupils from over half of all the schools in the country to help produce the content.
		One of the first tasks to preserve BBC domesday was to transfer the data files from the 12 inch laserdiscs to bytestreams accessible on modern hardware.
	www.iconbar.com /news/features/camileon.html (2141 words)

	Digital Preservation Coalition - Membership - Digital Preservation Projects
		The DSpace@Cambridge project is a 3-year collaboration between CUL and MIT Libraries, funded by the DTI-sourced Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), to establish a digital institutional repository for Cambridge University.
		The project will bring together the SHERPA institutional repository systems with the preservation repository established by the Arts and Humanities Data Service to create an environment that fully addresses all the requirements of the different phases within the life cycle of digital information.
		The 2003 rescue project was to migrate the now obsolete 1986 BBC Domesday Community disc data onto a Microsoft Windows PC platform, to preserve it and make it accessible with a new user-friendly interface for searching and browsing.
	www.dpconline.org /graphics/join/projects.html (4233 words)

	Digital History \| Preserving Digital History
		Called the Domesday Project, the BBC endeavor eventually became the repository for the contributions of over a million Britons.
		Project planners made optimistic comparisons between the twentieth-century Domesday and its eleventh-century predecessor; in addition to dozens of statistical databases, there would be tens of thousands of digital photographs and interactive maps with the ability to zoom and pan.
		By the late 1990s, of course, the LaserVision, the BBC line of computers, and the Nimbus had all gone the way of the dodo, and this rich historical collection faced the prospect of being unusable, except on a few barely functioning computers with the correct hardware and software translators.
	chnm.gmu.edu /digitalhistory/preserving/1.php (1488 words)

	BBC Domesday project relaunched - Web User News
		The BBC Domesday Project, a national project carried out between 1984 and 1986 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book, has been resurrected by the National Archives.
		However, when the BBC Domesday system was created it ran on a "BBC Micro" computer and was connected to the Phillips LV-ROM laserdisc player.
		A new DVD version gathers the original domesday content and has some new features that were not available on the original system.
	www.webuser.co.uk /news/33604.html (255 words)

	Domesday - Amazon.co.uk: Domesday Book: A Complete Translation (Penguin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Domesday book allows us to study the social structure of England as well as its tax base.
		The BBC Domesday project was created to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the The meeting brought together some of the original BBC Domesday videodisc
		But 16 years after it was created, the £2.5 million BBC Domesday Project has achieved an unexpected and unwelcome status: it is now unreadable.
	linksseek.com /lksk/domesday.html (392 words)

	University of Leeds \| For the media \| Press releases \| CAMiLEON and BBC Domesday
		The BBC Domesday project was conceived by the BBC to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the 1086 Domesday book.
		The CAMiLEON project is based at the Universities of Leeds and Michigan and has spent the last three years developing strategies for digital preservation and testing them with practical preservation work with materials like BBC Domesday.
		The rescued image of the BBC Domesday resource, along with the emulator on which it runs will be deposited at the Public Record Office on the completion of the CAMiLEON project.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /media/current/camileon2.htm (708 words)

	Log in ....Tribune--Feature article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But 16 years after it was created, the $ 3.5 million BBC Domesday Project has achieved an unexpected and unwelcome status - it is now unreadable.
		As a result, no one can access the reams of project information - equivalent to several sets of encyclopaedias - that were assembled about the state of the nation in 1986.
		By contrast, the original Domesday Book - an inventory of 11th-century England compiled in 1086 by Norman monks - is in fine condition in the UK's Public Record Office in south London and can be accessed by anyone who can read and has the right credentials.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020318/login/main5.htm (743 words)

	Countdown from Domesday
		The Domesday Project was undertaken to celebrate the 900th anniversary in 1986 of the original Domesday Book, and was a genuinely visionary project of immense scale.
		It was a true multimedia project, conceived several years in advance of the term 'multimedia' itself being coined, and was a massive undertaking which pushed to their limits the boundaries of what the technology of the day could achieve.
		The BBC was the main force behind the project as a whole, while Acorn produced the primary computer hardware (its computers were already used throughout the country's schools), Philips (as the only European producer of videodisc players) was responsible for the player technology, and Logica wrote the application software.
	foundation.riscos.com /html/features/11/domesday/count.htm (4681 words)

	RLG DigiNews April 15, 2003, Volume 7, Number 2
		One of the projects is WARP—(Web Archiving Project).
		The Paradigma Project estimates that less than 1% of the material collected from the Norwegian Web space may be subject to individual manual treatment or registration at some level.
		The Paradigma Project is also surveying metadata standards for the description of digital documents and for the exchange of bibliographic data.
	www.rlg.org /legacy/preserv/diginews/diginews7-2.html (8599 words)

	Humbul Record : The Domesday project : November 1986
		He is now involved in efforts to preserve the project and make it accessible again, working on archiving of the photographic and video content.
		The achievements and experience that was BBC Domesday are highlighted on this page including extracts from contemporary speeches and documents and retrospective commentary, as well as interesting information about the efforts of the CAMiLEON project to emulate the software and hardware to view the now obsolete original Video Discs.
		This is a readable, comprehensive, account of the history of the BBC Domesday Project from development, launch, and obselesence, to the efforts to rescue the data.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full3.php?id=8496 (275 words)

	Introduction to Digital Archeology \| The Baheyeldin Dynasty
		BBC Article dated Dec 2, 2002 on How the digital Domesday project was saved.
		In order to preserve a 1,000 languages the world languages for posterity, the The Rosetta Project has relied on relatively simple technology of an analog disk that is readable by a microscope.
		The Dead Media Project is a witness to data communication and storage media across the ages, that are no longer in widespread use.
	baheyeldin.com /technology/digital-archeology.html (2579 words)

	BBC Domesday Project saved for Nation \| The Register
		The BBC's Domesday Project, the groundbreaking multimedia tour of the UK as it was in 1986, is again open to the public.
		Set up to celebrate the 900th anniversary of The Domesday Book, the BBC project collected huge amounts of material, 50,000 photographs and 250,000 screens of text.
		Peter Armstrong, the original Head of the 1986 BBC Domesday Project, attended the official re-launch of the system.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2003/07/11/bbc_domesday_project_saved (398 words)

	The BBC Domesday Rescue Project, Colloquia, Research Events, Computing Science, Newcastle University
		A collaborative project managed by The National Archives has rescued the unique data resource created by the BBC Domesday Project of 1986 from its obsolete videodisc storage medium, and its dependence on the obsolete BBC Micro computer.
		As this is an interactive multi-media data resource, the issues raised and problems solved are of great interest to all those concerned with preserving digital objects and tracking the history of the computer age.
		He was the Contract Manager for the UK National Digital Archive of Datasets and Project Manager for the BBC Domesday Rescue Project.
	www.cs.ncl.ac.uk /research/events/colloquia/abstract.php?id=139 (221 words)

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