Bringing
Lives to Light: Biography in Context Bringing
Lives to Light: Biography in Context
This project seeks to enable the
more effective use of biographical texts in a digital environment. The goal
is to design, demonstrate and evaluate standards and best practices for encoded
mark-up, embedded queries, and associated editing tools that can be used to
create more powerful digital biographical texts that can in turn be connected
to a wider world of contextual information.
The intended audience is the creators of biographical
records, primarily librarians, archivists, editors of scholarly texts as well
as educational publishers.
Partners include The
Emma Goldman Papers project and the Religious
Atlas of China and the Himalayas, both at Berkeley, the Centre
for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen’s University, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, and UK Archives Hub
at the University of Liverpool, England. Our partners will provide data resources
and participate in the development of the project systems and databases.
Funded in part by an Institute
of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant for Libraries,
award number LG-06-06-0037-06, Oct 2006 - Sept 2009.
This project builds on Support
for the Learner: What, Where, When, and Who. See also related project Context and Relationships: Ireland and the Irish Studies.
Related Publications
Prototypes and Demonstrations
Proposal Summary (PDF) | Proposal Narrative
(PDF) | Project Diagram (PDF) | Final Report (PDF)
Principal Investigators: Ray
R. Larson; Michael Buckland;
and Fredric Gey.
Others: Ruth
Mostern, Barry Pateman
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