5694 - Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and 
Scholarly Commentary, 1086



Data Set Type
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Database files (6 files)
Data files (30 files)
Plain text (112 files)



Data Set Format
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The following data formats have been prepared by AHDS History:

Microsoft Access2003 (6 files, containing 23 tables and 7 queries)

AND

Rich Text Format files (112 files)

OR

Tab delimited text files (30 files)

AND

Rich Text Format files (112 files)

If requested, data may have been supplied in other formats where
practicable.



Documentation
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The master documentation file is called 'guide' and can be found in the
mrdoc folder in either *.rtf or *.pdf formats. In this document you will
find the necessary information to understand and interpret the contents of
this data collection. The document 'important_information', also
located in the mrdoc folder provides an overview of the contents of this
collection as well as some notes about other available resources involving
Domesday Book related materials.



Using the Data
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The data for this resource are of two different sorts.

If you have downloaded the MSAccess2003 version of the data you will have:
Six MSAccess2003 files in the folded 'access' and 112 files containing
textual material (in *.rtf format) kept in four different folders according
to their content. These folders are: 'appendix', 'introduction', 'notes'
and 'statistic_notes'.

If you have downloaded the tab version of the data you will have:

30 tab delimited (tab) files containing the same statistical information
contained in the MSAccess data above but kept in a format that can be used
with various other statistical packages and across different computational
platforms, and the same 112 rich text format files mentioned above.



AHDS History, 13/02/2008
UK Data Archive
University of Essex
Colchester CO4 3SQ

Tel: +44 (0)1206 872326
Fax: +44 (0)1206 872003
Email: info@history.ahds.ac.uk
URL: http://history.ahds.ac.uk/