I don't know if I've mentioned this before and it is probably of no consequence
whatsoever, but West Sussex Record Office and I are working together to produce
a website for medieval English charters. [There have been two stimuli: (a)
my version of Toolbook is old and so I am abandoning Toolbook; and (b) Richard
Childs, the County Archivist, who knows me to his misfortune from the past,
and his colleagues have very kindly provided (and are providing) high
resolution .jpgs of charters]. What we are doing is creating imagemaps of the
charters, so that the transcription of each word and brief notes, appear in the
status bar of the web browser at the foot. In some cases, clicking on the word
links to a more detailed file (grammar/syntax) -- this is indicated also in the
status bar ('click for more info.). The actual images can be viewed from
http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/wsussex.html (I hope this is right -- it's
from memory)
but you might like to start at
www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/medfram.html (again, this is from memory)
for there are links here to files on contractions etc (with images, no less).
To date, we have one charter completed and we are now working on another. A
word of caution is that the image files are _very_ large, because we wanted to
have images which were really useful for the learning process.
This site would have been the poorer without the collaboration with the West
Sussex Record Office to whom I am absolutely indebted. There is a link,
therefore, from the imagemap pages to the WSRO and, if you have any positive
feedback, I'm sure it would be appreciated by Richard Childs and his
colleagues at WSRO who have invested so much time and expertise in this venture.
Cheers,
Dave Postles
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