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Notes from study day, 17 May 2016

1. Overviews of the four projects on which our case studies will be based.

• Janelle’s overview of MoEML.

Assets:

Gazeteer; mapography of 92 maps of early modern London; Joey produced a finding aid for mortality bills; also edited texts and edition of John Stow’s survey of London marked up to high scholarly standards.

What would be lost without preservation:

17 years of work by various scholars, including emerging scholars. Resource used regularly. Widely linked from courseware systems, genealogical sites. Extreme detail in the gazeteer, a model of granularity. Exemplary documentation.

Preservation challenges:

Re-encoded a number of times. Future-proofing needed.