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

该项目旨在完成国家档案馆国家文件日历的数字化，这是早期现代时期英国历史学家的关键资源。《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内(1547-1704年、1760年-1775年)以及苏格兰和爱尔兰的国家文件日历。剩下的293卷(亨利·的国内外信件和论文；国家文件，国外；国家文件，殖民地；国库书籍和文件；以及外国档案馆保存的论文)将使整个丛书能够供高等教育和其他领域的研究人员查阅。这些日历将通过英国历史在线数字图书馆(www.briish-history.ac.uk)与早期现代时期的其他核心一手和二手资料一起提供，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。日历文本将完全可以与这一范围的补充材料进行交叉搜索，使用受控的主题术语以及个人和地名词汇。这代表着在可访问性和可用性方面的巨大进步。在线日历的交付也将为学者们提供机会来评论和更正文本中的任何错误或遗漏，最终导致可能被视为新的“版本”。该项目的这一部分是人文科学学者通过协作研究/编辑在调解环境中采用电子科学议程的一种方式。随着对大规模数字资源学术可持续性的担忧日益突出，这将考验研究界承担起加强和更新关键历史材料的集体责任的能力和意愿，以及Web 2.0技术可以应用于学术研究环境的方式。该项目还旨在以更有条理的方式增强日历的功能：第一，通过纳入现代TNA文献参考文献，使用户能够更容易地追踪原始手稿中的参考文献；第二，通过将日历暴露给TNA的全球搜索，它们将与各种国家和地方档案目录和资源一起编制索引。

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.