More changes

This week I’ve finished a big overhaul of the wiki. Changes include:

  • there’s now an external identifier for the The Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database (SSNE). This free to view database created by Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean is a very important source for the earlier careers of many civil war officers.
  • there’s a simple entity to represent blank pages in a manuscript. This is easier to use and less cumbersome than using the full data structures designed for manuscript texts or sections.
  • behind the scenes, some of the properties have been simplified. This won’t make any noticeable difference at the front end but it does affect the RDF output and writing custom queries.
  • documentation on property pages should all be up to date now.
  • battles and sieges have been overhauled yet again, and I think I’m finally satisfied. More details of this below.

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Cataloguing SP 28

Lots of people who have researched the British Civil Wars will know of SP 28, also known as the Commonwealth Exchequer Papers, in The UK National Archives. It’s a very important, and mostly quite poorly catalogued, collection of financial records of the parliamentarian and Protectorate war effort. One of the main aims of this project is to gradually catalogue and index SP 28. I’ve now started importing catalogue data into the wiki.

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