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Churchill Archive Project
The Winston Churchill archive consists of over a million documents, ranging from handwritten letters to typed political documents. The digitisation of the archive presents a number of problems which this project aims to tackle using multimedia and hypermedia tools and technologies.
Some of the issues dealt with by this research project include :-
- Providing a user friendly interface to a large information repository. Design of adapatable user interfaces to cater for a wide variety of user needs and abilities.
- Storage mechanisms for large multimedia archives.
- Integration of database search engines to promote fast retrieval.
- Integration of hypermedia navigation to improve browsing within the archive.
- Development and use of content based information retrieval tools on both text and non-text based media.
- Presentation of facsimile images in formats suitable for a variety of end uses.
- Scanning and digitisation technologies.
Type: Normal Research Project
Research Group: Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Theme: Digital Libraries
Dates: 1st July 1997 to 31st July 2002
Partners
- Thompson Publishing
Funding
- Thompson Publishing
Principal Investigators
Other Investigators
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