Digitisation of the National Archives' Calendars of State Papers through British History Online

该项目旨在完成国家档案日历的数字化，这是近代早期英格兰历史学家的重要资源。《国际卫生条例》由安德鲁·W·梅隆基金会资助，用于数字化和出版国家文件日历，国内（1547-1704年，1760- 1775年）以及苏格兰和爱尔兰的文件日历。剩余的293卷（亨利八世的书信和论文，国外和国内；国家文件，国外；国家文件，殖民地；财政部书籍和论文；以及外国档案馆中的论文）的增加将使高等教育及其他领域的研究人员能够访问整个系列。这些日历将通过英国历史在线数字图书馆（www.british-history.ac.uk）与其他早期现代的主要和次要资源一起提供，包括下议院和上议院的期刊以及维多利亚县历史的大部分内容。日历文本将与这一系列补充材料完全交叉搜索，使用主题术语的受控词汇，以及人名和地名。这在可访问性和可用性方面取得了巨大的进步。在线发布的日历也将为学者们提供评论和纠正文本中的错误或遗漏的机会，最终导致可能被视为新的“版本”。该项目的这一要素代表了人文学科学者在中介环境中通过合作研究/编辑采用电子科学议程的一种方式。随着对大规模数字资源的学术可持续性的关注日益突出，它将考验研究界的能力和意愿，以承担集体责任，加强和更新关键的历史材料，以及如何将Web 2.0技术应用于学术研究环境。该项目还旨在以更结构化的方式增强日历的功能：首先，通过纳入现代TNA文件参考资料，使用户更容易追踪原始手稿中的参考资料；第二，将日历公开给TNA的全球搜索，在那里它们将与各种国家和地方档案目录和资源一起被索引。

This project seeks to complete the digitisation of The National Archives Calendars of State Papers, a key resource for historians of England in the early modern period. The IHR has been funded by The Andrew W Mellon Foundation to digitise and publish the Calendars of State Papers, Domestic (1547-1704, 1760-75) and those for Scotland and Ireland. The addition of the remaining 293 volumes (Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic of Henry VIII; the State Papers, Foreign; the State Papers, Colonial; Treasury books and papers; and papers held in foreign archives) will make the entire series accessible to researchers in higher education and beyond. The calendars will be made available through the British History Online digital library (www.british-history.ac.uk) alongside other core primary and secondary sources for the early modern period, including the Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords and the substantial part of the Victoria County History. The calendar texts will be fully cross-searchable with this range of complementary material, using a controlled vocabulary of subject terms, and personal and place names. This represents an enormous gain in terms of accessibility and usability.The delivery of the calendars online will also present scholars with the opportunity to comment on and correct any errors or omissions in the texts, leading ultimately to what might be perceived as new 'editions'. This element of the project represents one way in which scholars in the humanities can adopt the e-science agenda via collaborative research/editing, in a mediated environment. With concerns about academic sustainability of large-scale digital resources increasingly to the fore, it will test the ability and willingness of the research community to take collective responsibility for enhancing and updating key historical material, and the ways in which Web 2.0 technologies can be applied in an academic research context.The project also aims to enhance the functionality of the calendars in a more structured way: first, by incorporating modern TNA document references, allowing users more easily to trace references in the original manuscripts; and, second, by exposing the calendars to TNA's Global Search, where they will be indexed alongside a variety of national and local archive catalogues and resources.