Digitising History - Section 1.1

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	Digitising History CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION
	1.1 Background This guide has been commissioned by the History Data Service (HDS) as part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) publication series Guides to Good Practice in the Creation and Use of Digital Resources. The series aims to provide guidance about applying recognised good practice and standards to the creation and use of digital resources in the arts and humanities. The HDS is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils to collect, catalogue, manage, preserve and encourage the re-use of historical digital resources. The HDS is located in the social science Data Archive at the University of Essex and is the AHDS service provider for the historical disciplines. The AHDS offers services to the archaeology, history, performing arts, textual studies and visual arts communities. It consists of five subject-based Service Providers (Archaeology Data Service, History Data Service, Performing Arts Data Service, Oxford Text Archive and Visual Arts Data Service) and a managing Executive.
	© Sean Townsend, Cressida Chappell, Oscar Struijvé 1999 The right of Sean Townsend, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struijvé to be identified as the Authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All material supplied via the Arts and Humanities Data Service is protected by copyright, and duplication or sale of all or any part of it is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your personal research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form. Permission for any other use must be obtained from the Arts and Humanities Data Service. Electronic or print copies may not be offered, whether for sale or otherwise, to any third party.