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* look for missing British infantry brigades in Becke and James | * look for missing British infantry brigades in Becke and James | ||
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* Australian CMF/PF units need linking to Army List | * Australian CMF/PF units need linking to Army List | ||
* should AIF field artillery batteries be merged with parent brigades? [http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/1aif/artillery.htm List of relationships at Digger History]. | * should AIF field artillery batteries be merged with parent brigades? [http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/1aif/artillery.htm List of relationships at Digger History]. | ||
Revision as of 13:32, 8 August 2016
Historian and palaeographer. I run Different Hand Ltd, doing manuscript transcription, XML markup, research assistance and related services. My PhD thesis and published work are on horses and cavalry in the English Civil War. I got into First World War research through tracing my great-grandad, who was in 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. I was a moderator at Your Archives and used to blog at Investigations of a Dog.
To do list
- started US and French divisions, corps and armies: get tactical relationships from US OB
- look for missing British infantry brigades in Becke and James
- Australian CMF/PF units need linking to Army List
- should AIF field artillery batteries be merged with parent brigades? List of relationships at Digger History.
- VTC/VF battalions and regiments (need more AOs first)
- TF name histories (need more ACIs first)
- look into replacing {{RefLives}} with a more general template to represent a person, link to any canonical source for their identity, and possibly insert microformats
- look into using APIs to extract batches of personal narratives and media from major collections
- pals battalions need cat, redirects and name checks
- see how many IWM Lives communities need to be added to unit pages
- decide which tasks most need to be added to How you can help (too many/too complicated could be overwhelming)
- possible changes to infoboxes:
- moving refs into separate fields would make cleaner data, more future proof and maybe easier to use
- fields and categories to track completeness of pages eg are names/relationships complete, with exact dates and citations?
