{"id":3672,"date":"2011-05-27T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2011-05-27T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:22:41","slug":"bbc-domesday-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"BBC &#8211; Domesday Reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/domesday\/story\"><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/banner.gif' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Paul I came across the BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/domesday\/story\">Domesday Reloaded<\/a>. The original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domesdaybook.co.uk\/\">Domesday Book<\/a> was commissioned in 1085 by William the Conqueror.In 1986 the BBC published a Laser-Disk based Domesday Project that gathered articles, amateur photographs and other materials. The Laser-Disk Project only ran on a properly configured BBC computer which was hard to find in Canada. I actually played with the system (and the Domesday Project) when I was working at the University of Toronto Computing Services. It was a phenomenal example at the time of computer-based multimedia even though it was limited to a particular play-back system.<\/p>\n<p>Now the Project has been remediated for the web by the BBC as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/domesday\">Domesday Reloaded<\/a>. You can search the content and the places. They have crowdsourcing features to let people add an updated article about a place. Some of the content seems to be inaccessible from outside the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Paul I came across the BBC Domesday Reloaded. The original Domesday Book was commissioned in 1085 by William the Conqueror.In 1986 the BBC published a Laser-Disk based Domesday Project that gathered articles, amateur photographs and other materials. The Laser-Disk Project only ran on a properly configured BBC computer which was hard to find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BBC &#8211; Domesday Reloaded<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-multimedia-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}