Domesday Special Interest Group

A new BBC Domesday multi-media touchtable has been unveiled at The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the BBC Domesday project, and the completion of the 2011 Domesday Reloaded project. Peter Armstrong, who led the original project gave a short speech about the project and the new table in the video below.

The BBC Domesday reloaded project is coming to an end and today, October the 31st is the last day for submissions. Allthough the reloaded project will be closed to new submissions the site will still be accessible for a while on the BBC web site and for the longer term be accessible via the National Archives in the future.

Just a reminder that if you were thinking of making a submission to the BBC Domesday Reloaded website that it will be closing to new submissions on October 31st 2011.

Many people have been wondering what the future holds for the Domesday Reloaded project when it is handed over to the national archives. The following audio clip provides the answers in an interview with Tim Gollins from the National Archives.

A rather odd video from the BBC channel on YouTube to promote Domesday Reloaded.

The BBC have posted a video of Tomorrows World where Presenters Howard Stableford and Maggie Philbin demonstrate the Domesday system.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-13361889

There has been a tremendous amount of interest shown in domesday and a huge number of people have registered, Thank you.

A few people have not been able to complete their registration due to their email address being invalid. To complete the registration process you will be sent an email with a link, if you haven't received the message please check your junk mail folder. If you have not received the registration email or are experiencing any problems with registration please use the Contact form.

A quick tip regarding registration, your username will be displayed by any comments you write on the site it would probably be a good idea not to use your email address as the username, remember you can use spaces in the username.

A quick word on privacy, your email address will only be used for administering your account on this site, we will under no circumstances give out your email address to any 3rd party, this is a community driven site that is strictly non-commercial, it is entirely a volunteer effort.

We would like to express a warm welcome to all of our new visitors who have arrived here due to the publicity relating to the Domesday Reloaded website from the BBC.

Previously this site was the home of the 'Domesday Preservation Group' an informal group of people who have been working on various projects to preserve the original BBC Domesday project. Now that the BBC have made their new site available there is a renewed interest in domesday, with a much broader audience. I hope we can get a community going here for people who are interested in the domesday project. With this in mind the old site has been removed and I am hard at work building this new and to reflect the broader audience the name has been changed to 'Domesday Special Interest Group' to reflect the fact that the site is open to anyone no matter what your interest is in domesday.

Please excuse the mess while we find our feet and feel free to add comments and share your memories and ideas.

Twenty five years ago the BBC published the Domesday Project. Through a new website called Domesday Reloaded, the BBC have made the community disc archive available on-line. There are over 150,000 short articles and around 23,000 images from all over the UK originally contributed by school children, community groups and the general public. The Domesday Reloaded project not only allows you explore the archive online, but the BBC are asking people to update the information and make your mark on this fascinating record of our collective history.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday

If you are looking for the on-line version of the 1986 BBC Domesday produced by Adrian Pearce, sadly it is no longer available.

Domesday re-engineering.

In December 2001 Adrian Pearce set out to make the Domesday Community data available on Windows PCs. Rather than attempt to emulate the original system, supported by The National Archives he set out to reverse engineer the system in order to build a new version that could be used dierctly on a Windows PC. In 2003 Adrian presented a Windows version of the Community data to The National Archives. In 2004 Adrian made a web version available on-line on this domain unfortunatly the original web site is now unavailable due to the fact that he sadly died on January 27th 2008.