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    Board of Longitude Archive to go online
    From: Paul Hirose
    Date: 2012 Jul 08, 16:21 -0700

    In a project now in work, Cambridge University Library will digitize the
    archives of the Board of Longitude and other papers, and put the
    documents online.
    
    "We will build a substantial digital collection (comprising some 65,000
    pages of content), consolidating resources held at Cambridge University
    Library and the National Maritime Museum, and generating detailed
    metadata and contextual resources to place the material within a rich
    intellectual framework. Resources will be created to link the collection
    to the school curriculum and incorporate it within an exciting programme
    of exhibitions and public engagement being undertaken by the Museum."
    
    http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013/Board%20of%20Longitude.aspx
    
    Near the bottom of the page, under "Documents & Multimedia", is a link
    to the project plan, which has more details. So does the application for
    funding:
    
    
    http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitisation/econtent/econtent11_13/Bids/The%20Board%20of%20Longitude%20BID.pdf
    
    
    According to those documents, the digitization will include:
    
    1. Papers of the Board of Longitude.
    2. Official papers of Nevil Maskelyne.
    3. Personal papers of Nevil Maskelyne and other Board-related manuscripts.
    4. All known publications of the Board (apart from Nautical Almanac).
    5. Nautical Almanac, 1767-1831.
    
    The project is a joint effort by the Library and the Board of Longitude
    Project (http://blogs.rmg.co.uk/longitude/).
    
    
    
    

       
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