How to use the Domesday Digital Text Project

Chapters

1. 1

   Intro & overview

   Domesday Book and an overview of this digital edition

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   • 0:04Domesday Digital Text Project

     In this video, I'll introduce the Domesday Digital Text Project. Domesday Book is a survey of land in medieval England, compiled in ten eighty-six. This site is a digital scholarly edition that lets you read its Lincolnshire portion through structured text and high-resolution images.

     
   • 0:26Structured text (TEI/XML) and high-resolution images (IIIF)

     At the heart of the edition are a transcription structured in TEI XML, and high-resolution page images served through IIIF. A defining feature of the project is that the text and the image can be handled together.

     
   • 0:45Bilingual and openly available

     The interface is available in both Japanese and English, and anyone can browse it freely. In the next chapter, let's start with search.

     
2. 2

   Search

   Client-side full-text search and facets (hundred / place)

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   • 0:05Full-text search that runs entirely in the browser

     This is the search page. The search here does not query a server. It runs entirely in your own browser, narrowing down more than seventeen hundred pre-exported entries on the fly.

     
   • 0:28Filter instantly by keyword

     When you type a keyword, the results are filtered right away, and the matching terms are highlighted. You can search across the full Latin transcription.

     
   • 0:50Narrow down with facets (hundred / place)

     Beyond keywords, you can also narrow the results by facets, such as hundred and place. Following the structure of the survey, you can reach the entry you want quickly.

     
   • 1:08Each result shows a thumbnail and a snippet

     Each result shows a thumbnail of the corresponding page image, together with a snippet of the text. Choose an entry, and its detailed three-pane view opens.

     
3. 3

   Three-pane viewer & IIIF

   The transcription / IIIF image / translation viewer with OpenSeadragon / Mirador

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   • 0:06Three panes: transcription / IIIF image / translation

     This is the detailed view of an entry. The transcription is on the left, the page image in the center, and the translation on the right. You can read a single record while comparing the original text, the image, and the translation side by side.

     
   • 0:29Deep-zoom the IIIF image (OpenSeadragon)

     The image in the center is delivered through IIIF and can be deep-zoomed with OpenSeadragon. You can check the transcription against the actual manuscript hand, down to the finest detail.

     
   • 0:54Open the same IIIF manifest in Mirador

     A great strength of IIIF is interoperability. The very same manifest can be opened in another viewer, such as Mirador, letting you page through the whole of Lincolnshire.

     
   • 1:11Openly available — supported by KAKENHI

     In this way, the project links structured text with high-resolution images, and publishes them together with search and translation. This database is part of research supported by Japanese government grants. Please try it out at gdb.ldas.jp.