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The name "Domesday" (pronounced like "Doomsday") comes from effort to archive the laserdiscs from the BBC Domesday Project [0], which was a cultural successor t
by dharmab 3y ago
The name "Domesday" (pronounced like "Doomsday") comes from effort to archive the laserdiscs from the BBC Domesday Project [0], which was a cultural successor to the Domesday Book [1]. The original Domesday Book was a sort of written time capsule of life in 11th century England, and the Domesday project was a digital time capsule of the UK in the mid-1980s. After lapses in archival by the BBC, the Domesday Project is being kept alive by independent volunteer efforts.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
1: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/ https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/domesday/
- rob74 3y agoThanks for the info! Wouldn't hurt to mention that in the project's README...
- zeristor 3y agoTwenty years ago I asked about the “Doomsday project” in a history newsgroup and was ridiculed, probably lightly, but I didn’t dare post for a year. I try to be kind online.
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- zeristor 3y agoThere was a project to digitise the Domesday Book, the thing is it didn’t index by settlement, but by owner. Which if memory serves made it tricky to search. Is there data in a database form that can be queried?
- dharmab 3y agoThe National Archives have a search available, although not for free: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/domesday-book/#6-accessing-domesday-online https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/...
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoI worked on Domesday Explorer back in 2000 or so. You can still find CD ROMs on eBay or other places but I don't think it's sold anymore. It has place name and name indexes all cross linked to entries. They are paradox database tables underneath. More information can be found here: https://www.domesdaybook.net https://www.domesdaybook.net Also see: https://opendomesday.org/ https://opendomesday.org/ Which uses much of the same data but is available on the web.
- zeristor 3y agoI see you added it to your username too.
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoHaha, you are probably the first person to notice the meaning of the number :)