Two major new resources for parliamentary history
On Friday 4 November, as part of the wider annual Parliament Week, the new History of Parliament Online was launched.
The project, a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the History of Parliament, makes available three and a half centuries of Parliamentary history, including more than 21,000 MP biographies and around 3,000 articles.
The IHR is also a partner in a new JISC-funded project, one of 23 supported under its eContent programme. Linking Parliamentary Records through Metadata (LIPARM) will allow for the first time the federated searching and browsing of UK and Ireland Parliamentary papers by defining and implementing a unified metadata strategy for historical and contemporary parliamentary digitisation projects. The project will define a generic XML schema for parliamentary metadata, define controlled vocabularies for key components of this metadata, and produce a platform for a union catalogue of these materials.
