1. 6th ANZAMEMS Conference, Adelaide, 7-10 Feb 2007 Digital Resources for the Interdisciplinary Study of Post-Conquest Manuscripts Elzbieta Majocha ela.majocha@ed.ac.uk ela.majocha@gmail.com

2. Imagine you could trace history of DB villages and localities count accurately female owners and their possessions in 12th, 13th, 14th c. answer questions about how many scribes/hands contributed to a MS examine interaction between languages: Latin, French and English

3. Resources you'd need digital facsimile copies, transcripts, translation notes: palaeographical, historical, contextual databases: exhaustive tagging, powerful search hyperlinks to related objects

4. Experts in history, also of culture, religion, social history, geography palaeography, also diplomatics, history of the book philology: specialists in Medieval Latin, Old French, Old and Middle English digital resources

5. First step The Domesday Book: a model Digital Domesday (Alecto edition with search engine) Domesday Explorer aka the Hull Database (sophisticated search and analysis engine) COEL database (Domesday personal names with related documentation up to 1166)

6. Continuation Series of governmental records: Assize Rolls from 1202 Lay Subsidy Rolls from 1238 Hundred Rolls from 1274 Poll Tax Rolls of 1377 and 1381

7. In the long run Hundreds of classes of sources central: series of documents from royal courts, the Exchequer, the Chancery local: records of everyday business, eg. disputes and litigations, land gains and losses lay and ecclesiastical

8. Enables evidence-based studies tracking changes complete coverage

9. What's in it for me Study 150 sources listed in the county volumes of the English Place- Name Society (EPNS) from which my PhD data came.

10. Map 40: Distribution of items in 12th and 13th c

11. 13th c. Tally Sticks Image downloaded from http://www/nationalarchives. gov.uk/museum/item.asp?item_id=6 More details on confluence website, click on NEER Participants with Personal Spaces, click on Elzbieta Majocha and then on 6th ANZAMEMS Conference Talk.