THE DOMESDAY BOOK : VISUALIZATION TOOLS TO EXPLORE IDENTITY AT THE START OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM | Zendy

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THE DOMESDAY BOOK : VISUALIZATION TOOLS TO EXPLORE IDENTITY AT THE START OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM

Author(s) -

Martyn Jessop

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

electronic workshops in computing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

ISSN - 1477-9358

DOI - 10.14236/ewic/eva2009.6

Subject(s) - eleventh , identity (music) , visualization , settlement (finance) , history , computer science , genealogy , data science , world wide web , aesthetics , art , artificial intelligence , physics , acoustics , payment

Exploring patterns of settlement and land ownership have always been of interest to the historian but could these patterns be used, as it were, 'in reverse' not simply to display what is already known but to resolve gaps, uncertainties and ambiguities in the historical record? It was the nature of life in the eleventh century that individuals were rarely named uniquely and were frequently known by different names in different circumstances. Could visualization tools be used to resolve these frequently obscure and ambiguous identities recorded in the Domesday Book?

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