Tools of Knowledge

  • Database progress – and a new model

    Database progress – and a new model By Sarah Middle, Duncan Hay, and Alex Butterworth In a previous blog post,we described both the Arches software that we are using to manage and publish our project database, and our initial remodelling of the data with reference to the events-based CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC CRM). In…

  • Join us on a Voyage in Time…

    Join us on a Voyage in Time… By Sarah Middle, Rebekah Higgitt and Alex Butterworth Tools of Knowledge, in partnership with Royal Museums Greenwich, is launching a crowdsourcing transcription project, Voyages in Time, to record information about the acquisition, travels and repairs of the Royal Navy’s chronometers. Alongside our main project database of Scientific Instrument…