BBC Domesday Reloaded was a
local history
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web site
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for the digitised content of the
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...
'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 to transfer the material. The data was extracted to a
PC compatible computer by communication with a
BBC Master
The BBC Master is a home computer released by Acorn Computers in early 1986. It was designed and built for the BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and was the successor to the BBC Micro, BBC Micro Model B. The Master 128 remained in prod ...
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
A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of electronic visual display, display that can detect touch input from a user. It consists of both an input device (a touch panel) and an output device (a visual display). The touch panel is typically l ...
interfaces to the data, known as "TouchTable". They are housed at its
MediaCityUK
MediaCityUK is a mixed-use property development on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in City of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The project was developed by The Peel Group, Peel Media; its principal tenants are Mass media, ...
site in
Salford
Salford ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in Greater Manchester, England, on the western bank of the River Irwell which forms its boundary with Manchester city centre. Landmarks include the former Salford Town Hall, town hall, ...
and
The National Museum of Computing in
Bletchley
Bletchley is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, in the south-west of the city, split between the civil parishes in England, civil parishes of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford and West Bletchley, which In 2011 had a com ...
.
The TouchTables used have a diagonal
display size of 52 inches, which exceeded the largest LCD-based screen available at the time.
The TouchTables were reported to have been developed by
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
1980s Domesday Reloaded data goes online
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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