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The Advisory Group on Computer Graphics
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Richard Millwood
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Mar 06, 2009
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The Advisory Group on Computer Graphics (AGOCG) was an initiative of the Joint Information System Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils and the Research Councils from 1988 to 1998. It provided a single national focus for computer graphics, visualization, multimedia and virtual environments within the UK higher education community and was concerned with the handling and processing visual information in all its forms.
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The BBC Domesday Book Project and its Legacy
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Richard Millwood
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May 14, 2009
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A special seminar convened by the British Computer Society's Computer Conservation Society (CCS)
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The BBC Domesday Project - November 1986
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Richard Millwood
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Jul 13, 2009
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Apr 05, 2011 10:42 PM
A web site about the project and its subsequent preservation challenges created by Andy Finney
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The Camileon Project to rescue BBC Domesday
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Richard Millwood
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Jul 13, 2009
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Apr 05, 2011 10:42 PM
The CAMiLEON Project is developing and evaluating a range of technical strategies for the long term preservation of digital materials. A key proof of concept case study for CAMiLEON is the rescue of BBC Domesday and the implementation of an emulation strategy to preserve this remarkable but fragile digital resource. These pages provide a description their work with BBC Domesday
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The Domesday Project
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Richard Millwood
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May 14, 2009
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Apr 15, 2011 03:16 PM
From 1984 to 1986 the Domesday Project, organised by the BBC, gathered film, photographs, descriptions and data to cover the United Kingdom, publishing it all on an innovative variant of laser disc technology, LV-ROM in November 1986 in celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Norman Domesday Book.
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The Domesday Project
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Richard Millwood
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Jul 13, 2009
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Apr 05, 2011 11:02 PM
From 1984 to 1986 the Domesday Project, organised by the BBC, gathered film, photographs, descriptions and data to cover the United Kingdom, publishing it all on an innovative variant of laser disc technology, LV-ROM in November 1986 in celebration of the 900th anniversary of the Norman Domesday Book.
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The Electronic Libraries Programme (ELib)
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Richard Millwood
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Sep 07, 2008
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Apr 05, 2011 11:01 PM
The Electronic Libraries Programme, funded by JISC as a consequence of the Follett Report into UK academic libraries, began in the spring of 1995.
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The Electronic Libraries Programme (ELib)
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Richard Millwood
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Sep 07, 2008
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Apr 05, 2011 11:00 PM
The Electronic Libraries Programme, funded by JISC as a consequence of the Follett Report into UK academic libraries, began in the spring of 1995.
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The ITMA Collaboration
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Richard Millwood
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Jul 25, 2015
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Jul 25, 2015 11:31 AM
ITMA stands for 'Investigations into the Microcomputer as an Aid' and was a collaboration between the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education, University of Nottingham and the College of St Mark and St John Plymouth. It pioneered the development of educational software for use in primary and secondary classrooms in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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The Legacy of the BBC Microcomputer: effecting change in the UK’s cultures of computing
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Richard Millwood
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May 24, 2012
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Jul 17, 2015 05:19 PM
The impact on the UK of the BBC's Microcomputer from 1982 is explained in this report made 30 years after its introduction.
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