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.

该项目将探索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 世纪初英国陆军军官的案例研究，该项目将通过让档案部门参与通过数字技术重新整理档案馆藏的过程，同时保持其完整性，从而促进对档案中的个人进行更广泛的探索按照档案标准。档案记录的数字化主要受记录本身的限制，例如在人口普查或教区记录中抄写姓名，让用户将多个来源的记录和时间信息拼凑在一起。我的奖学金将在数字人文技术方面迈出变革性的一步，从在记录中查找姓名（例如通过光学字符识别或重新键入源）转向将个人记录链接在一起。这种记录链接过程将允许对作为历史参与者的个人及其社交网络进行探索，其规模是传统历史技术不可能实现的。该项目将开发技术和实践，以在档案馆藏中找到集体个人——以一种为研究人员提供创新机会的方式“重新归档”记录，为档案馆与他们所拥有的馆藏互动提供新的方式，并且更加人性化。该项目与谢菲尔德数字人文研究所和国家档案馆联合创建的英国陆军军官生活档案，将能够对 1790 年至 1830 年间服役的 40,000 名军官进行分析。通过这一点，我们将能够恢复历史沉默的大多数军官的经历，避免将知名和经过深入研究的个人与典型人物混为一谈的陷阱。该数据库将向公众开放，使用户能够通过一系列搜索和数据可视化工具查询数据。这些工具将能够分析整个数据集或子集（用于了解团、队列、特定军衔或角色等群体）和个人（用于传记查询）。该奖学金包括广泛的出版物和传播活动的计划，包括四次会议演讲、两篇文章、档案部门的工具包和报告、三个研讨会、数据库启动活动以及包括维基马拉松在内的会议，研究、讨论小组和培训。奖学金结束后，我还将出版一本关于英国陆军军官的书。