Re-archiving the Individual: British Army Officers, 1790-1820

重新归档个人：英国陆军军官，1790-1820 年

• 批准号: AH/W004267/1
• 负责人: Kevin Linch
• 金额: $ 30.54万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW004267%2F1
• 关键词: Re; archiving; Individual; British; Army

This project will explore how we can reconstruct historical lives from archival records on a mass scale. Using a case study of officers in the British Army in the late 18th and early 19th century the project will facilitate a wider exploration of individuals in archives by engaging the archive sector with the process of re-arranging archival collections through digital technologies whilst preserving their integrity in accordance with archival standards. The digitisation of archival records has predominately worked with the confines of the records themselves, for example transcribing names in census or parish record, leaving the user to piece together information across records and time from multiple sources. My fellowship will make a transformational step in digital humanities techniques to move from finding names within records (e.g. by optical character recognition or re-keying sources) to linking records together of individuals. This record-linking process will allow the exploration of individuals as historical actors and their social networks at a scale that is impossible through traditional historical techniques. The project will develop both the technology and the practice to find individuals en masse within archive collections - to 're-archive' records in a way that offers innovative opportunities for researchers, new ways for archives to engage with the collections they hold, and is more user-friendly. The project's life archive of the British Army officers, created in conjunction with the Sheffield Digital Humanities Institute and The National Archives, will enable the analysis of the 40,000 officers who served between 1790 and 1830. Through this, we will be able to recover the historical experience of the silent majority of Army officers, avoiding the pitfalls of conflating well-known and well-researched individuals with what was typical. This database will be publicly available and enable users to interrogate the data through a series of search and data visualisation tools. These tools will enable analysis of both the whole data set or sub-sets (for understanding groups such as regiments, cohorts, particular ranks or roles) and individuals (for biographical enquires). The fellowship includes plans for a wide range of publications and dissemination activities, including four conference presentations, two articles, a toolkit and report for the archive sector, three workshops, a launch event for the database, and a conference that includes a wikithon, facilitated research, discussion panels, and training. Following on from the fellowship I will also publish a book on British Army officers.

该项目将探讨我们如何从大规模的档案记录中重建历史生活。通过对18世纪末和19世纪初英国军官的案件进行研究，该项目将通过与档案部门与档案部门进行与数字技术重新排序的档案收藏的过程，同时根据档案标准来保留其完整性，从而有助于对档案中的个人进行更广泛的探索。档案记录的数字化主要与记录本身的范围合作，例如在人口普查或教区记录中转录名称，使用户从多个来源的记录和时间拼凑出信息。我的奖学金将在数字人文科学技术方面迈出转变的步骤，从记录中找到名称（例如，通过光学角色识别或重新键入来源）转变为将个人记录联系在一起。这个记录链接过程将使个人作为历史参与者及其社交网络的探索是通过传统的历史技术不可能的。该项目将同时开发技术和实践，以在存档收藏中找到个人 - 以一种为研究人员提供创新机会的方式“重新构造”记录，档案的新方法可以与他们持有的收藏群互动，并且更易于用户友好。与谢菲尔德数字人文研究所和国家档案馆结合创建的英国军官的生命档案将使对1790年至1830年之间服务的40,000名官员进行分析。通过此，我们将能够恢复沉默的陆军军官的历史经验，避免了与众所周知的众所周知和富有良好态度的人的陷阱。该数据库将公开可用，并使用户能够通过一系列搜索和数据可视化工具来询问数据。这些工具将启用整个数据集或子集（用于了解诸如团体，同伙，特定等级或角色）和个人（用于传记查询）的群体的分析。该奖学金包括针对各种出版物和传播活动的计划，包括四个会议演讲，两篇文章，一份工具包和档案领域的报告，三个研讨会，数据库的启动活动以及包括Wikithon，Wikithon，辅助研究，讨论，讨论和培训的会议。在研究金之后，我还将出版一本关于英国军官的书。