Granger, S

Assignation; 18 (2) Jan 2001, p.24-6

Explains the problem of digital preservation to which until recently the main solution has been migration. Describes Creative Arching at Michigan and Leeds: Emulating the Old on the New (CAMiLEON), a 3 year project funded jointly by the Joint Information Systems Committee in the UK and the National Science Foundation in the USA, which began in October 1998 and aims to evaluate emulation as a digital preservation strategy. Looks at work in progress and issues requiring further investigation.

Wheatley, P

Ariadne; (29) Oct 2001, No page numbers

The full text of this electronic journal article can be found at [URL:http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/camileon/]. Explores migration issues for the long-term preservation of digital materials as a continuation of the debate on the different uses of migration for the long-term preservation of digital materials. It is hoped that the discussion will form the basis of future comparisons between migration and emulation as part of the CAMiLEON project's investigation of emulation as a digital preservation strategy and embracing the sort of issues reviewed by Holdsworth and Wheatley (Holdsworth, D and Wheatley, P, 'Emulation, Preservation and Abstraction' [URL:http://www.rlg.org /preserv/diginews/diginews5-4.html#feature2]. The three key aims are discussed: breaking down the traditionally broad view of migration into more easily digestible components and to develop some standard terminology for these different migration practices; considering the options for the migration of digital materials by working from a number of practical examples; and beginning to discuss some of the issues arising from this categorisation of migration options. It is hoped that this discussion, whilst providing no easy answers, may take one step nearer to the confident use of migration as a viable tool for long term digital preservation. (Quotes from original text)

Turley, Raymond V

Audiovisual Librarian; 15 (2) May 89, 76-79

Describes the experience of the Hartley Library, Southampton University, which put out its Domesday videodisc for public use in Jan 88. The discs have attracted a great deal of student attention but it has to be said that for the most part student use of Domesday is at arcade game level. There appears to be no evidence of any serious course related assignments based on the system. User reaction to Domesday has been monitored by means of comment sheets alongside the workstation. 00 P.B.

Grimshaw, Anne; Williams, Bernard J S

Information Media and Technology; 20 (4) July 87, 164-166

Report of a CIMTECH review of the BBC's Domesday Videodisc Project from the point of view of its use as a source of information.

Lee, David

Indexer; 15 (3) Apr 87, 145-150.s

Describes the background to the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) interactive videodisc entreprise-the Domesday Project. Discusses the 4 phases in the indexing of the project: schools project keywords; national disc thesaurus or hierarchy; national disc keywords; correction, cross referencing and editing. Outlines some of the problems involved when indexing for and with the computer.

Tapper, Richard

Aslib Proceedings; 39 (4) Apr 87, 107-121.s

The Domesday Project videodiscs are the first integrated data base to be created for public dissemination. They incorporate data, presented as simple interactive graphics, pictures and text from an unprecedented array of subject areas. Describes how the BBC team solved major problems to combine data from nearly 45 different sources into a single data base.

Noble, Iain; Hargreaves, Peter

Library Review; 36 (4) Winter 87, 237-247. bibliog

Describes the BBC Domesday Project Video Discs, the equipment involved in the workstation, and the subjective impressions of a group of librarians, at Teeside Polytechnic, in setting up and exploring the system. The evaluation is based on Michael Hill's (unpublished) M.Sc thesis.

Russell, John S

In search of excellence: proceedings of the 7Second annual conference of the Scottish Library Association, Peebles, 1986, edited by A.F. Taylor, Motherwell, Scottish Library Association, 1987 73-74

Outlines the Domesday Project, funded by the BBC, Philips Electronics, Acorn Computers and the Department of Trade and Industry, to create a modern version of the original Domesday survey which will be a comprehensive image of Britain in the 1980s. The project uses the Advanced Interactive Video (AIV) system which enables pictures, digital data and computer programs to be incorporated on disc. The data base comprises 2 discs: a National Disc; and a Community Disc based on 24,000 Ordnance Survey maps.

Tibbetts, M

Electronic publishing: the new way to communicate. Proceedings of the symposium organised by the Commission of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 5-7 Nov 86 Edited by Franco Mastroddi, Commission of the European Communities, 1986 155-160

The BBC Domesday Project is a mixed-media information resource on all aspects of UK life in the 1980s. With hardware manufacturers, the BBC has developed an advanced form of interactive videodisc which stores huge quantities of digital data alongside analogue television on an optical disc. This technology has been used to compile a comprehensive selection of the UK's holdings of public information, combined and contrasted with new data and views contributed by schools and other members of the public. The Project should herald a new generation of aids in education and public information. However, its greatest value may not be in technical progress but in providing the focus for a whole country to cooperate in building a national resource of unprecedented value and historical significance. Describes the Domesday Project in detail and discusses some of its implications, both in the immediate future and in the longer term. 00 Original abstract

Lee, David; Dawson, Katherine

SLA News; (195) Sept Oct 86, 3-6

Describes the content of the Domesday Project which has been produced on videodisc by the BBC with the support of the Department of Trade and Industry, Philips and Acorn. It consists of 2 videodiscs: the Domesday Community Disc is an account of UK life in the 1980s; and the Domesday National Disc is a more official view prepared with the aid of university and governmental organisations. The application of Domesday material will, it is hoped, be seriously considered by the library profession.

Blizzard, Andrew

School Librarian; 37 (3) Aug 89, 94-96.s

The BBC Domesday Project was produced to commemorate the 900th anniversary of William the Conqueror's Domesday survey of 1086 and was conceived to provide a comprehensive image of the UK in the 1980s. It is almost 3 years since the BBC launched its Advanced Interactive Video (AIV) system with the first 2 videodiscs--the Community and the National discs--containing collated information from the Domesday Project. Although the interactive videodisc has been largely superseded by the more sophisticated CD-ROM, the Domesday and subsequent discs remain an important contribution to computer-assisted learning and information retrieval, both in the public library and in the education/school library environment. Describes the organisation of the Community and the National discs along with the practical application of the Domesday system in the field of education. 00 A.G.

Duckworth, J

Laboratory News; Aug 2002, p.13-14

In 1986, the British Library created an computer-based, multimedia version of the Domesday Book as part of the 2.5 million pound BBC Domesday Project. Less than 16 years later this electronic book is unreadable since the computers used to read the 12in videodiscs are now obsolete. By comparison, the original Domesday Book parchment manuscript, produced in 1086, is still readable. The lessons of this comparison are discussed in the context of the long term storage of analytical data and the development of lasting data format standards.

Openshaw, S; Mounsey, H

INT. J. GEOGR. INF. SYST., vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 173-179, 1987

The Domesday Project is an ambitious attempt by BBC Enterprises Ltd to present a contemporary snapshot of the United Kingdom in the 1980s on interactive video disk. The paper introduces the idea of interactive video and the local disk. It then concentrates on methods of access to, and cartographic display of, data on the national disk.

Freeman, D

COMP. EDUC., vol. 15, no. 1-3, pp. 189-194, 1990

This paper addresses the problems and opportunities offered by the Domesday computer controlled laser-disc system in the primary and secondary classroom and school library within a Local Education Authority demonstrator project. Teachers and children have adopted different teaching and learning styles in classroom use of the systems. Perhaps it is a reflection on their flexibility that the styles range from didactive to heuristic, formal to informal learning, and for classroom and individual project work. Case studies of primary and secondary use emphasize the potential for more educational materials of this type. Childrens' interpretation of analogue and digital information from these systems will be discussed, as well as the methods used for searching, manipulating, presenting and interpreting information.

Newby, Howard; University of Essex

For the 900th anniversary (September 29, 1986) of the completion of the Domesday Book, the BBC will be producing a major documentary series and a comprehensive statistical portrayal of Britain in the 1980's on video-disc. Part of the disc data was collected during 1985 by 14 000 volunteer schools, to produce a 'peoples' database of information on local communities. The rest of the information on the discs will be collected from national sources. The ESRC Data Archive is the major contractor for the provision of data for a new Domesday Survey. Collaborating are: Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle; Department of Geography, Birbeck College, London University; Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Bangor, each supplying data in map form for the Archive to collate and pass on to the BBC. A Software Committee is devising new operating systems and software standards. Sophisticated programs will manipulate and display the Domesday information. The Domesday Project will help to establish interactive video-discs as an essential education and information handling tool in Britain, and is thought to be the first substantial opportunity for schools to use their micros in a national coordinated educational project. The Domesday discs will contain all the indexes and micro-computer software for users to retrieve, combine, compare and present the Domesday material. The discs were published on 25 November 1986.