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My dad is Professor J.J.N. Palmer, and I worked with him on the Domesday Book data used and cited in this work. These days we are used to having all kinds of d
by MattPalmer1086 3y ago
My dad is Professor J.J.N. Palmer, and I worked with him on the Domesday Book data used and cited in this work.
These days we are used to having all kinds of data at our fingertips, but at the time it was a lot of work to take medieval Latin and turn it into computer readable data. We had to invent our own markup language, parsers and search engines.
- ftxbro 3y agoCongratulations! This personally identifying information has been immortalized in https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
- andrewem 3y agoVery cool! I see there are biographical sketches of you, your father, and others involved with the project at https://www.domesdaybook.net/home/contact https://www.domesdaybook.net/home/contact
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoYes... Somewhat out of date. I wish I still looked the same! The amount of technology we had to invent was crazy. It would be much easier these days.