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ARCHAEOLOGICAL
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The BIAB web pages have been re-designed and considerably expanded. They now contain everything you ever wanted to know about bibliographic data for Britain and Ireland. This includes information on the scope, aims, background and history of the BIAB project, along with extensive details of archaeological serial publications, and contact details of archaeology publishers and/or editors.(The BIAB Web pages are hosted by the British Academy)
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BIAB ON-LINE DATABASE
is now available. Containing nearly 100,000 references to material published between AD 1695 and June 1991, this unparalleled body of information is made available in the first instance in a free-text search only format.
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CADW: Welsh Historic Monuments has recently launched a web site.
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The Archaeology Data Service (ADS,)in conjunction with Environment and Heritage Service (part of Department of the Enviroment Northern Ireland), is delighted to announce that an on-line version of the Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record is now available. The SMR contains over 14,000 references to the archaeology of Northern Ireland and will have particular relevance to researchers interested in the Irish Sea zone (Ireland, Isle of Man, NW England, Scotland and Wales). As examples, there is a wealth of data about crannogs, souterrains and early monastic sites.
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Also on the ADS site, the Sites and Monuments Record for Northumberland (over 11,000 records). Full contact details for the Conservation Team at Northumberland County Council are included to facilitate further enquiries.
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Irish Archaeology Discussion lists at the Heritage Council's bulletin board system or through the homepage.
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The Official Lascaux Cave site is on the web server of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. « Lascaux » is the 5th volume of the electronic collection « Grands sites archéologiques » produced by the « Mission de la Recherche et de la Technologie (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication) » and made accessible to all publics on the web server of the Ministry.
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Celtic Improvisations: the first time that a Celtic iconographic study has been done for a series of items that are both localized in time and in space.
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The Botel Bailey Dig/The Stewartry Archaeological Trust although it is limited in information. More at www.sjcresearch.fsnet.co.uk
- The Glasgow Archaeological Society are now online.
- University of Glasgow Department of Archaeology: includes links to 'MapMaker' and free GIS software.
- Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society: inlcudes index to recent publication, programme of events, contacts, etc.
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service web site is now on-line. The site is fairly basic, but it includes the 'SMR Search' system - a prototype for on-line access to information in the Sites and Monuments Record. The content and style of 'SMR Search' is documented on the site. The site also includes a "Report a Discovery" page, allowing users to provide information about new or known sites to the SMR on a structured data entry form.
DISCUSSION LISTS
GEOGRAPHICAL
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The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
"An important and promising start in efforts to create a unified source for geographic name information around the globe". If you are interested in becoming a contributor to the
TGN, please contact the Getty Information Institute's Vocabulary Program
at (310) 440 6364 or send e-mail to pharpring@getty.edu. Comments and
questions about the TGN may be sent to tgn@getty.edu.
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Multimap: map resource providing search and locate for UK Ordnance Survey mapping.
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MapPad is a free downloadable program developed by the NOAA Palaeoclimatology Program for plotting geographical distributions. It comes with a map of North America, but additional outline maps can be downloaded for use with it, including maps for Scotland, Scotland South, Wales, Britain, and Ireland.
- GridConverter is a facility (particularly useful with MapPad) converting National Grid References (for Britain and Ireland) into Longitude and Latitude. Requires Microsoft Access (part of the Microsoft Office 97 suite).
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MapMaker is free for 21 days as an evaluation download.
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Ordnance Survey County maps from mid to late 19th century, black and white. Nice to look at, no modern urban clutter. Upgrades promised that will make the maps seamless, zoomable, and searchable by place-name.
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The GIS Portal is excellent for anyone interested in or working with maps or the GIS industry. It has links to lots of other GIS sites and resources.
HISTORICAL
- ORB.
On-line reference book for Medieval studies.
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
Gets better and better but still many essential texts to be transcribed..
- Gallica on-line.
The French National Library has started a project to put on-line 100,000 texts: so far, they are concentrating on the 19th century. Includes, for instance, the Chartulary of the Abbey of Redon. A glimpse of things to come? Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Roman Gask Ridge.
Site for the study of the Roman sites on Gask Ridge: the oldest Roman frontier system.
- CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts.
Online critical editions of classic Irish texts including, for instance, the Annals of Ulster.
- The Heroic Age : free e-journal; late antiquity, early medieval north-western Europe and the British Isles.
- Renfrewshire Local History Forum, and The Archaeology Section are now on line.
- History of the parish of New Cumnock
- Baltersan tower-house restoration project.
- Statistical Accounts of Scotland On-Line at EDINA
- Genealogical and Historical research in Dumfries and Galloway
- The eHistory Bulletin is a refereed academic journal of history that targets undergraduates, secondary school students, and the general public. It seeks to provide a reliable source of historical information through the dissemination of general articles, book reviews, and critical reviews of websites related to history.
- cyberscotia is the web site of Steve Sweeney-Turner: lots of good things, including sections on the Picts and on Ancient Lothian.
- History Scotland is a new bi-monthly magazine which introduces the general public to the highest quality of writing and new research by Scottish historians, archaeologists and heritage professional.
INSTITUTIONS / ACADEMIA
- The National Archives of Scotland (formerly the Scottish Record Office).
- SCRAN.
The Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network site: indispensable.
SCRAN is generally seen as a major repository for resources on human history and material culture, but it is also a gateway to other resource bases. The SCRAN links pages provide simple keyword access to information on hundreds of websites of likely interest to SCRAN users, with the alternative of browsing.
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
Searchable index of Scottish sites and monuments records.
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Searchable index of Welsh sites and monuments records.
- CADW: Welsh Historic Monuments has recently launched a web site.
- Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.
Also has a search facility for sites and monuments records.
- The Council for British Archaeology (CBA).
- The Council for Scottish Archaeology (CSA).
- UK Archaeology on the Internet.
An interesting site maintained by Nottingham University.
- Internet Archaeology.
Electronic archaeological journal: access to full texts after (free) registration
S Garside-Neville, Assistant editor tel: +44 1904 433955 / fax: +44 1904 433939
- The Conferences, Workshops and Meetings section of the NISS Information Gateway is a good starting point for conferences and training events of interest to the UK academic community. Broad categories are included for all academic disciplines, and it also provides a link to the events diaries of organisations, special interest groups, and professional societies.
- The Scholarly Societies Project provides links to Meeting/Conference Announcement Lists.
These listings have been compiled by scholarly societies and normally include meetings and conferences sponsored by many agencies, not just those of the society that compiled the list.
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www.getCITED.org is a researcher-controlled, online database that allows you to enter in the details of any publications you might want others to know about and to control the search terms by which they are brought up. In effect, it allows you to put your entire CV online. The database already has over 300,000 identities and 3,000,000 publications in it, so don't be surprised if some of your publications and your identity already exist!
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Looking for that next academic qualification? UCAS.
LINGUISTIC
MISCELLANEOUS
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Free Pint "Helping 38,000 people use the Web for their work": excellent free newsletter delivered by email or viewable on-line. Articles, reviews, links.
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Katy Jordan's Holy Wells Web site (with links to others, including Margaret Smythe's Scottish Holy Wells site).
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Living Spring Journal (LSJ), the new e-journal for holy wells. It goes without saying that, unlike a print journal, you will not have to pay a subscription to read LSJ - access to the website is free to all over the WWW.
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"Source" archive: back catalogue of the defunct holy wells journal.
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The Heroic Age : free e-journal; late antiquity, early medieval north-western Europe and the British Isles.
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Firth's Celtic Scotland
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Voice of the Shuttle: encyclopaedic American (University of California at Santa Barbara) site.
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TITUS-Ogamica: guide to Ogam inscriptions.
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Celtic Studies by Christopher Gwinn.
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Web Pages that Suck: thinking of designing a website? go here first! Do's and don'ts explained with panache.
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About.com: the best in American home education.
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Scotland.org
A compendious site that intends to be an index for all things Scottish.
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heritage.scotsman.com an online guide to all things concerned with Scottish heritage.
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An Institute for the Languages of Scotland?
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AM BAILE The Am Baile website was launched last year in Inverness. Its aim is to provide a range of digital resources for anyone with an interest in the history and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. The entire site is navigable in English (http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/) and/or Gaelic (http://www.ambaile.org.uk/gd/).
ONOMASTIC
- Placenames section in Gàidhlig air an Lìon (Gaidhlig on the Web)
- The website of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain has information on place-names in Britain, including authoritative introductions to each language type.
- The Anglo-Saxon Plant Name Survey, based in the University of Glasgow, is interested in the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, in whatever language they occur, and carries out in-depth research through two international teams, one of contributing authors, and another of advisers representing many disciplines.
- Carmarthenshire Place-Name Survey
Terry James' site includes description of the Carmarthenshire place-name survey and other related projects in South Wales.
- Medieval Scotland.
Sharon L Krossa's enterprising page suggested for inclusion by Peadar Morgan of Comann an luchd-ionnsachaidh. Includes items such as "A Simple Guide to Constructing 12th Century Scottish Gaelic Names" and "A Consideration of Pictish Names".
- American Name Society.
Home page for the American society for onomastic studies. Includes some details of the Society's publications, addresses of officers and instructions for joining the discussion list.
- Roman Place-names (Britain).
A critical survey of the Roman place-names, the sources for them, and their suggested identification (acknowledges sometimes at variance with Rivet and Smith).
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Tom Ikins' 'The Roman Map of Britain'; a compendious site which will eventually include studies of all the major sources for Britain.
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Daft Place-names.
Only for those with a well-developed sense of humour (or not? oh well, it made me laugh.).
- The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.
"An important and promising start in efforts to create a unified source for geographic name information around the globe".
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Roman Gaul.
A useful gazetteer of places and people of Roman Gaul.
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GeoNative.
A website about placenames in minority languages: includes a Scottish page.
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Daphne Brooke's 'Galloway Place-Names'. Left unfinished at Daphne Brooke's death, the website will be completed by volunteers. The existing torso is nontheless impressive and authoritative.
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Place-names of New Cumnock.
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Govan: (Friends of Govan Old website) Alan Macquarrie and Thomas Clancy debate the origin of the name.
- Locus: The aim of this project is to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names to replace Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum.
- University of Natal, South Africa: Onomastic Studies Unit, Pietermaritzburg.
- French Place-Name site Pourquoi de la toponymie? Pourquoi non?! Fairly comprehensive with useful bibliography, but does not list early forms or indicate language of proposed etymological elements.
- Some place-names in south Wales and their etymologies. A website by Deric John.
- Now on line at www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk 124,405 field names in Herefordshire taken from the 1840 tithe maps. "A useful resource for people researching crops (meadow, flax, perry, hemp), woodland, trees (lime trees, whitty pear), archaeology sites (berry, castle, black), language, tracing the name of their house."
- Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba / Gaelic Place-Names Scotland - the reformed Gaelic Names Liaison Committee, now a partnership which includes the Scottish Place-Name Society, Ordnance Survey, Highland Council and others.
- www.pointplacenames.com
- Streetwise: Dundee street names.
- Place names of Beauly. (See 'Inverness' page for description)
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