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==MarineLives research agenda for 2022==
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==MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022==
  
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'''Marine Lives celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022. To mark reaching the remarkable digital age of ten we are planning several initiatives, which we will be announcing in January 2022. These initiatives will be linked to our research agenda for the year, which is as below:
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'''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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1. Developing and optimising keyword search algorithms for C17th Secretary Hand in English language English High Court of Admiralty manuscript documents.
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==Who will benefit from attending this seminar?==
  
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2. Completing the next phase of our metadata for the HCA 13/ series. Currently, we have metadata for 21,250 deponents from the years 1570 to 1688, supported by 50,000 digital images held offline.
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'''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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3. Publishing a hybrid digital edition of three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s, taken from HCA 30/636.
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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.
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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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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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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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==Women and Early Modern record keeping==
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==Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database==
  
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'''MarineLives is participating 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].'''
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[[Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database]]
  
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Our contribution to the seminar is 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.''']
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==What we would like in return?==
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'''In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:'''
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1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions
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2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database
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* Thematically
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* Searchability
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* Usability
 
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==New MarineLives project: Researching three ship account books from the 1620s and 1630s: HCA 30/636/==
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==What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024==
  
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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]]
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'''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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[[File:Account Books 13102021.JPG|800px|thumb|left|HCA 30/636 in all its glory, just waiting for some collaborative work by volunteers]]
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<u>1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database</u>
  
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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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PEOPLE
  
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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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* 24,000 deponents with current place of abode at level of parish and town
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* 2258 deponents with current place of abode identifed and length of time spent at that place
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* 1675 deponents with place of birth identified
  
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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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* 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions
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* 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership
  
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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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MATERIALS
  
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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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* 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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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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- '''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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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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==About MarineLives==
 
  
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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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MICROHISTORY
  
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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 1680. Commerce, materials, language and correspondence.'''
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* Depositions related to:
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- The Royal Exchange (and Exchanges elsewhere in continental Europe)
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- Customs Houses
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- Taverns, inns and victualling houses
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- Private homes
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- Warehouses and cellars
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- Wharves and keys
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- Shops
  
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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 20,100 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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[[File:Micor History 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]
  
 
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[[File:Abraham Handwriting Sample HCA 30 636.JPG|500px|thumb|right|HCA 30/636/ Handwriting sample]]
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==This is a list of people who are confirmed participants in the seminar==
  
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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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'''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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* 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
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* Personal copies of the database to be emailed on Friday April 12th 2024
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* Online users guide to the database to be published on the MarineLives wiki by Friday April 12th 2024

Latest revision as of 06:03, April 10, 2024



MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022


We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database

Seminar Agenda 05042024.JPG


Who will benefit from attending this seminar?


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

Participants will:

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


Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database


Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

What we would like in return?


In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:

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

  • Thematically
  • Searchability
  • Usability

What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024


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.

1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database

PEOPLE

  • 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


SHIPS

  • 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


MATERIALS

  • 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports


- 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


MICROHISTORY

  • 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

Length Of Time Resident 07042024.JPG
Place Of Ship 07042024.JPG
Voyage Nodal Points TWO 07042024.JPG
Ladings By Geography 07042024.JPG
Micor History 07042024.JPG

This is a list of people who are confirmed participants in the seminar


Seminar Participants 05042024.JPG


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

  • Seminar is limited to 20 participants
  • 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
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