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==Background==
 
==Background==
  
* Colin Greenstreet (co-director of MarineLives) met in November 2017 with [http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/content.aspx?id=10172 Dr Steve Hindle] (Interim President & W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, The Huntington Library) and [http://theshakespearestandard.com/blotted-line-interview-vanessa-j-wilkie-curator-medieval-british-historical-manuscripts-huntington-library-2/ Dr Vanessa Wilkie] (William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval & British Historical Manuscrips, The Huntington Library). The purpose of the meeting was to introduce MarineLives as a project and to begin to explore the possibility of collaboration with the Huntington.
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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>(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>
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* 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.
 
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==Goals==
 
==Goals==

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


We are uploading two sets of images from Huntington Library manuscript collections for collaborative trancription

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Transcription


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  1. (Interim President & W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, The Huntington Library
  2. William A. Moffett Curator of Medieval & British Historical Manuscripts, The Huntington Library