posted on 2020-09-18, 10:11authored byJulianne Nyhan, Kim Sloan, Alexandra Ortolja-Baird, Victoria Pickering, Martha Fleming
An XML-encoded version of Sir Hans Sloane's Catalogue of Fossils including Coralls, Serpents, Echini, Crustacea, Starrfishes, Humana (Volume I). This resource has been designed for free consultation in association with the Sloane Consortium of UK national institutions which hold the original manuscript catalogue documents and related collections of Sir Hans Sloane. All content is reproducible as long as the source is indicated by referencing the publication and the name of the institutional owner of the original catalogue manuscript–in this case The Natural History Museum (London). An article outlining the research
considerations and decision making processes guiding the marking up
of the Sloane collection catalogues in the framework of the
Enlightenment Architectures project can be found at Ortolja-Baird, A.,
Pickering, V., Nyhan, J., Sloan, K. and Fleming, M., 2019. ‘Digital
Humanities in the Memory Institution: The Challenges of Encoding Sir
Hans Sloane’s Early Modern Catalogues of His Collections.’ Open Library
of Humanities, 5(1), p.44. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.409 The raw
transcriptions from digital images of the original manuscripts were
commissioned by the Enlightenment Architectures project from the AEL
Data company. These transcriptions were then fully compared, checked and
corrected against the original documents by the research team that is
also responsible for the complete TEI markup of the transcriptions. The digital scholarly edition of the catalogue us available here: https://enlightenmentarchitectures.reconstructingsloane.org/cataloguefossils1/