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local history
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web site
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for the digitised content of the
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's 1986
Domesday Project. It was launched in May 2011
and included some updates contributed by users during 2011. During the site's first day of public operation, over two million pages were viewed.
History
The BBC said that it worked with
The National Archives
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Among its more important tasks are to ensure the accessibility and preservation of the information produced by governments, both ...
to transfer the material. The data was extracted to a
PC compatible
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computer by communication with a
BBC Master
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computer which could read the disks from the original system. The transfer was facilitated by Simon Guerrero and Andy Finney, who were involved in the original project (Andy as an engineer and Simon as a teenage contributor).
In December 2011, the BBC announced installations of large horizontally installed (table-style)
touchscreen
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interfaces to the data, known as "TouchTable". They are housed at its
MediaCityUK site in
Salford
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and
The National Museum of Computing
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in
Bletchley
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Bletchley is best know ...
.
The TouchTables used have a diagonal
display size
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of 52 inches, which exceeded the largest LCD-based screen available at the time.
The TouchTables were reported to have been developed by eMoot
and allow up to four users to browse through the information at the same time,
using 12 touch points simultaneously.
The website was transferred to The National Archives in June 2018.
Main features
The website provided online access to images and articles from the original Domesday Project. Visitors were able to update information from their local area
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References
External links
* {{Official Archived, non-functioning (July 2018)
The National Archives Series reference PRO 30/100: Data from BBC Domesday Project
History websites of the United Kingdom
British online encyclopedias
Domesday Book
Domesday Reloaded
2011 establishments in the United Kingdom
Internet properties established in 2011