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Historian and palaeographer. I run [http://www.differenthand.ltd.uk Different Hand Ltd], doing manuscript transcription, XML markup, research assistance and related services.
 
Historian and palaeographer. I run [http://www.differenthand.ltd.uk 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, UK|1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment]]. I was a moderator at Your Archives and used to blog at Investigations of a Dog.
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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, British Army|1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment]]. I was a moderator at Your Archives and used to blog at Investigations of a Dog.
  
 
==To do list==
 
==To do list==
  
* RND and RMLI battalions need war diaries
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* try to clear list of individual narratives as far as possible
* Australian CMF/PF units need linking to Army 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
 
* look for missing Indian infantry in Army List and Wikipedia
 
* clear backlog of Australian personal narratives at [[Lists of personal diaries, letters, memoirs]] and [[Talk:Australian units in World War I]] (pages should now exist for most relevant units but check for and create any missing ones)
 
* VTC/VF battalions and regiments (need more AOs first)
 
* TF name histories (need more ACIs first)
 
* look into replacing {{tl|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?
 

Latest revision as of 09:44, 14 November 2017

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

  • try to clear list of individual narratives as far as possible