Digitizing the Canterbury Cathedral Archives

The Canterbury Cathedral Archives, which has a tradition of record-keeping that dates back at least 1300 years, has announced a collaboration between the University of Kent, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, and researchers in Rouen for a project through which researchers may gain easy access to some of the older and more fragile documents held in the Cathedral Archives.

"Known as DocExplore, the project aims to develop an interactive system which allows digitised versions of valuable historical documents to be explored via a touch-screen, simulating, as far as possible, the experience of accessing the physical object itself. But users can see much more than the document – they can access translations and transcriptions, read more about the period in which it was written, its contents and who would have used it at the time by using the additional text, image, sound and video resources that are a feature of the system."

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