THE DOMESDAY BOOK : VISUALIZATION TOOLS TO EXPLORE IDENTITY AT THE START OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM

Exploring patterns of settlement and land ownership have always been of interest to the historian but could these patterns be used, as it were, ‘in reverse’ not simply to display what is already known but to resolve gaps, uncertainties and ambiguities in the historical record? It was the nature of life in the eleventh century that individuals were rarely named uniquely and were frequently known by different names in different circumstances. Could visualization tools be used to resolve these frequently obscure and ambiguous identities recorded in the Domesday Book?

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Martyn Jessop

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Publication date: July 2009

Publication date (Print): July 2009

Pages: 30-36

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[0001]Centre for Computing in the Humanities

King’s College London

Strand

London, WC2R 2LS

United Kingdom

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2009.6

SO-VID: 08759786-54a6-432e-bb7a-9613e7c4aa62

Copyright statement: © Martyn Jessop. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2009), London, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2009)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 6 - 8 July 2009

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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THE DOMESDAY BOOK : VISUALIZATION TOOLS TO EXPLORE IDENTITY AT THE START OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM

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