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BBC Domesday Reloaded

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Web address www.bbc.co.uk/domesday
Commercial? Yes
Registration None
Available in English
Owner BBC
Launched May 12, 2011; ago (2011-05-12)[1]
Current status Online

BBC Domesday Reloaded is a local history web site for the digitised content of the BBC's 1986 Domesday Project. It was launched in May 2011[2][3][4][5][6] and includes some updates contributed by users during 2011. During the site's first day of public operation, over two million pages were viewed.[7]

History[]

BBC Learning worked with The National Archives to digitise the material.[8] The data was extracted to a PC compatible computer by communication with the BBC Master which hosted the original system. The transfer was facilitated by Simon Guerrero and Andy Finney, who were involved in the original project (Andy as an engineer and Simon as a teenage contributor).[9][10]

In December 2011, the BBC announced installations of large horizontally-installed (table-style) touchscreen interfaces to the data, known as "TouchTable". They are housed at its MediaCityUK site in Salford and the The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley. [7][11][12] The TouchTables used have a diagonal display size of 52 inches, which exceeded the largest LCD-based Surface 2.0 screen available at the time. [13] The TouchTables were reported to have been developed by eMoot [14] and allow up to four users to browse through the information at the same time,[12] using 12 touch points simultaneously. [15]

Main features[]

The website provides online access to images and articles from the original Domesday Project. Visitors were able to update information from their local area[16] until the end of October 2011.[17][18] Some local libraries hosted events for residents to contribute updates to the site.[19][20]


References[]

  1. ↑ "BBC Domesday Reloaded unveils rarely-seen local material from 1986". BBC. 2011-05-12. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/05_may/12/domesday.shtml. Retrieved 2011-05-13. "[...] has been unearthed through BBC Domesday Reloaded [...]" 
  2. ↑ The National Archives - the UK government's official archive
  3. ↑ Lanxon, Nate (May 6, 2011). "Behind the BBC's Domesday Reloaded". Wired UK. http://www.wired.co.uk/podcast/episode-24. Retrieved November 7, 2011. 
  4. ↑ Musgrove, Dave (May 12, 2011). "Domesday Reloaded". BBC History. http://www.historyextra.com/blog/domesday-reloaded. Retrieved November 7, 2011. "Domesday Reloaded reopens to the public the material that was gathered 25 years ago for the BBC Domesday project." 
  5. ↑ Sung, Dan (May 6, 2011). "BBC Domesday Project Reloaded for the Internet age". Pocket-lint. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/39906/domesday-reloaded-bbc-project-1986. Retrieved November 7, 2011. "In a matter of days, all of that information will finally be available to see online as Domesday Reloaded." 
  6. ↑ "Domesday Reloaded". East of England Broadband Network. http://www.e2bn.org/news/307/domesday-reloaded.html. Retrieved November 7, 2011. "Today, the BBC launched the Domesday Reloaded website." 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lee, Dave (December 7, 2011). "Domesday Reloaded Project opens at Bletchley Park". BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16053184. Retrieved December 8, 2011. "The BBC's Domesday Project has been made into an interactive 'touchtable' now on display at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. [...] Over two million pages were viewed on the website's first day open to the public." 
  8. ↑ "BBC Learning takes you back to Eighties with Domesday Reloaded". BBC. 2011-05-06. Archived from the original on 13 May 2011. http://web.archive.org/web/20110513004709/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/05_may/06/domesday.shtml. Retrieved 2011-05-13. "BBC Learning has been working very closely with The National Archives and with their help and expertise in web archiving and digital preservation, this valuable resource will be available to the public for generations to come." 
  9. ↑ Freeman, Eric (2011-06-01). "Rescuing the Domesday Project (Part One)". TechRadar. Future Publishing. http://archive.is/NbZ9. Retrieved 2013-04-15. "[...] in the end however we were contacted by an extremely clever engineer: Simon Guerrero who wanted to do an extraction (having taken part in the original project), the timing was wonderful and did the actual data transfer. [...] We hooked a PC up to the serial port and wrote another programme to receive the data coming from the Master and write it to disk. To obtain the images another piece of software written on the PC was used to send BBC star commands to the Master system via the serial port, which caused the individual display of the video frames stored on the LVROM, those frames were then captured via a video input on the PC's graphics card and written to disk, each named for its frame number from the source video." 
  10. ↑ Freeman, Eric (2011-06-01). "Rescuing the Domesday Project (Part Two)". TechRadar. Future Publishing. http://archive.is/lNWc. Retrieved 2013-04-15. "Since the quality of our image extraction wasn't wonderful we ended up using the work done by the wonderful Andy Finney to extract the frames from the original one inch video tapes used to create the LVROMs." 
  11. ↑ "MediaCity to house Domesday data". How-Do. December 2, 2011. http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/other-media/mediacity-to-house-domesday-data-20111202100956063. Retrieved December 8, 2011. "[...] housed in what the BBC describes as a "touchable" – a computer that allows up to four people at once to search maps, photos and articles of the UK in 1986 and 2011. [...] Another "touchable" will be housed at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Saul Nassé, Controller of BBC Learning, said: "[...] with the touchable [...]"" 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Leach, Anna (December 8, 2011). "Domesday Book put on touchscreen at Bletchley Park". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/08/bbc_domesday_touchtable_bletchley_park/. Retrieved December 8, 2011. "Unveiled today, the Domesday Touchtable will let four users at a time browse through the 50GB of info including 25,000 photographs. There are two Domesday Touchtables in the country - the second is in the BBC's Manchester MediaCity campus." 
  13. ↑ Coldewey, Devin (December 7, 2011). "UK's "Domesday Reloaded" Archives On Touch-Table At Bletchley Park". TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/uks-domesday-reloaded-archives-on-touch-table-at-bletchley-park/. Retrieved December 8, 2011. "[...] also put together a touch-enabled version for a Surface-like touchscreen table. It’s not actually a Surface; the 52-inch screen is larger than the latest Samsung-based Surface 2.0 [...]" 
  14. ↑ Schofield, Jack (December 8, 2011). "BBC's multitouch Domesday table developed by eMoot". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jacks-blog-10017212/bbcs-multitouch-domesday-table-developed-by-emoot-10024978/. Retrieved December 15, 2011. "[...] it appears that the Domesday Touchtable was developed by London-based eMoot Limited." 
  15. ↑ "Domesday comes to National Museum of Computing". Milton Keynes Citizen. Milton Keynes. December 16, 2011. http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/local/domesday_comes_to_national_museum_of_computing_1_3333398. Retrieved December 16, 2011. "The interface has 12 simultaneous touch-points [...]" 
  16. ↑ 1980s Domesday Reloaded data goes online
  17. ↑ Grant, Darren (October 31, 2011). "Domesday Reloaded Submissions end Today". Domesday Special Interest Group. http://domesday1986.com/node/53. Retrieved November 7, 2011. "[...] October the 31st is the last day for submissions." 
  18. ↑ Copeman, Neil (October 14, 2011). "Last chance to update Domesday Reloaded: Make your mark on history". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/domesday/. Retrieved November 7, 2011. "On the 31st October it's time for us to close Domesday Reloaded to updates and new submissions. [...] We're doing this to mark the end of the 2011 project and to enable The National Archives to capture the site and preserve the data [...]" 
  19. ↑ "Listings guide". Derbyshire Times. October 21, 2011. http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/lifestyle/what-s-on/listings_guide_1_3897753. Retrieved November 7, 2011. "Local Studies Day, Bring your 1980s memorabilia: toys, games, fashion, stories and memories. The aim is to update the 1986 BBC Domesday information for Whitwell on the Domesday Reloaded site at Whitwell Library, See www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday 2pm till 5pm." 
  20. ↑ "Library to stage BBC Domesday Reloaded event". Bradley Stoke Journal. May 17, 2011. http://www.bradleystokejournal.co.uk/2011/05/17/library-stage-bbc-domesday-reloaded-event/. Retrieved November 7, 2011. "Bradley Stoke Library is staging a “Back to the ’80s” event on Saturday (21st May) to mark the 25th anniversary of the BBC’s Domesday Project." 

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