{"id":218,"date":"2005-07-26T10:48:27","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/26\/unearthing-a-not-so-ancient-tome\/"},"modified":"2005-07-26T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T17:49:35","slug":"unearthing-a-not-so-ancient-tome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/unearthing-a-not-so-ancient-tome\/","title":{"rendered":"Unearthing a (not-so) Ancient Tome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/2534391.stm\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Digital Domesday book unlocked<\/strong><br \/>\nA rich digital archive of British life in the 1980s has been brought back to life by researchers from the UK and the US.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe team at Leeds University and the University of Michigan in the US say they have now found a way to access this rich digital archive.<\/p>\n<p>They have developed software that emulates the obsolete Acorn Microcomputer system and the video disc player.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBy contrast, the original Domesday Book, an inventory of England compiled in 1086 by Norman monks, is in fine condition in the Public Record Office in Kew, London\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to understand but still remarkable that it can be harder to get at 25 year old data than 1,000 year old data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BBC News Digital Domesday book unlocked A rich digital archive of British life in the 1980s has been brought back to life by researchers from the UK and the US. &#8230; The team at Leeds University and the University of Michigan in the US say they have now found a way to access this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}