Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. 人文情報学 2007. ROBERT DARNTON | An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris | The American Historical Review, 105.1. Philip J. Ethington. From the Digitized to the Digital Library. Background The author holds a chair in Humanities Computer Science at the University of Cologne. For a number of years, he has been responsible for digitization projects, either as project director or as the person responsible for the technology being employed on the projects. The "Duderstadt project" ( is one such project. It is one of the early large-scale manuscript servers, finished at the end of 1998, with approximately 80,000 high resolution documents representing the holdings of a city archive before the year 1600. The digital library of the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt ( is another project on which the author has worked, with currently approximately 900,000 pages.
The following paper has grown out of the design considerations for the mentioned CEC project. 1. Discussion: Well-established academic staff have access to research assistants (RAs). 2. Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS) | Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System (GBHGIS) The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System is a unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps assembled into a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts.
This site tells you more about the project itself and about historical GIS. A separate website, created by funding from the UK National Lottery and extended and re-launched with funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee, makes this resource available on-line to everyone, presenting our information graphically and cartographically. That site is called A Vision of Britain through Time and presents the history of Great Britain through places.
It can be found at www.visionofbritain.org.uk.