The Human Remains: A Digital Library of British Mortuary Science and Investigation

为了帮助教会政策制定者、考古学家和研究人员，在这个团契的头三年里，建立了一个历史英国殡葬科学与调查的数字图书馆。它提供了自公元7世纪至19世纪有记录以来，英国对教堂死者的当前和历史调查的第一次调查。它为倡导者和政策制定者提供了急需的证据，以告知他们在地方和国家一级管理基督教背景下的历史埋葬的战略和对策。对用于报告过去的殡葬调查和重新埋葬的语言进行的尖端数字分析可以揭示历史上被认为是“尊重的待遇”，它可以在其历史背景下锚定伦理、程序和宗教辩论；推进科学、医学、宗教、法律和死亡的历史；并指导学术、教会和遗产部门作为我们继承的死者的保管人的做法和政策。在研究金续期期间，数字图书馆将扩大到包括考古发掘的历史墓葬管理决定的证据(空墓或截断的坟墓、墓穴堆积物、聚集地、重新开放的坟墓等)。以便与7-19世纪的历史记录进行比较。它将使用先进的空间信息系统来了解埋葬管理的有形实践，以及这些遗骸在教堂和大教堂内创造的无形的情感和感觉空间。这将创造可预测的趋势，帮助教堂建筑内的现代墓葬管理。对图书馆文本的语言的数字分析也将从关注“尊重”扩展到包括人类遗骸的“价值”，特别是那些部分的、火化的、脱节的和肉体的遗骸。这将为我们今天如何“恭敬”地处理和记录此类骚乱提供更大的细微差别，并为现代考古学家、墓葬管理人员和团契研讨会的政策制定者提供重要的讨论点。除了数字图书馆，一个名为“人类遗骸合作实验室”的跨部门网络继续将参与管理教堂历史遗骸的学者和非学者、咨询网络、慈善机构和专业服务组织聚集在一起。他们提供关于数字图书馆的用户反馈，并确定合作点和战略资金投标；为所有参与管理基督教历史人类遗骸的人共同撰写案例研究、建议、培训材料和研究资源。通过与其他教会考古学家的国际合作和面向公众的学术项目，图书馆将在英国以外的地方分享这一世界领先的模式和数据，并展望建立一个全球网络和资源，包括对等培训、建议、最佳实践、案例研究，以及与教堂、博物馆、图书馆、档案馆、历史墓地(等)的合作。了解基督教背景下有关人类遗骸和墓葬管理的看法、做法和政策。

To assist Church policymakers, archaeologists, and researchers, a digital library of Historic British Mortuary Science & Investigation has been built in the first 3 years of this fellowship. It offers the first survey of current and historic investigations of the church dead in Britain since records began in c.7th century AD until the 19th century. It provides advocates and policymakers much-needed evidence to inform their strategies and responses to managing historic burials in Christian contexts at local and national levels. Cutting-edge digital analysis of the language used to report past mortuary investigations and reburials can reveal what has historically been considered 'respectful treatment' which can anchor ethical, procedural, and religious debates in their historic contexts; advance histories of science, medicine, religion, law and death; and guide practices and policies from academic, Church, and heritage sectors as custodians of our inherited dead. In the renewal period of the fellowship, the Digital Library will be expanded to include archaeologically excavated evidence of historic burial management decisions (empty or truncated graves, charnel deposits, clustering, re-opened graves etc.) for comparison alongside the historical records from 7th-19th centuries. It will use advanced spatial information systems to understand both the tangible practices of burial management alongside the intangible emotional and sensory spaces these remains created inside churches and cathedrals. This will create predictive trends to help modern burial management inside church buildings. The digital analysis of the language of library texts will also expand from focussing on 'respect' to include the 'value' of human remains, especially those with are partial, cremated, disarticulated, and fleshed. This will offer greater nuance in how we 'respectfully' conduct and record such disturbances today and offer vital discussion points for modern archaeologists, burial managers, and policymakers at fellowship workshops. Alongside the digital library, a cross-sector network called 'The Human Remains Collaboratory' continues to bring together academics and non-academics, advisory networks, charities, and professional services involved in managing historic human remains from churches. They provide user feedback on the Digital Library and identify points of collaboration and strategic funding bids; and co-author case studies, recommendations, training materials, and research resources for all those involved in managing historic human remains in Christian contexts. Through international partnerships with other church archaeologists and public-facing academic projects, the library will share this world-leading model and data beyond the UK with a vision for a global network and resource of peer-to-peer training, advice, best practice, case studies, and collaboration with churches, museums, libraries, archives, historic cemeteries (etc.) to navigate perceptions, practices, and policies surrounding human remains and burial management in Christian contexts.