{"id":3149,"date":"2019-11-28T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T11:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:46:35","slug":"on-trial-bayeux-tapestry-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2019\/11\/28\/on-trial-bayeux-tapestry-online\/","title":{"rendered":"On trial: Bayeux Tapestry Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

*The Library now has access to this resource. Find out more at New to the Library: Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition<\/a>.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to a request from staff in HCA I’m pleased to let you know the Library currently has trial access to the Bayeux Tapestry Online<\/strong> from Scholarly Digital Editions. This online version allows you to scroll through the entire Tapestry and zoom in on the Tapestry to the level of the actual weave.<\/p>\n

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You can access \u00a0from the E-resources trials page<\/strong><\/a>.
\nAccess is available on and off-campus.<\/p>\n

Trial access ends 31st December 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As well as including general descriptions of the forty\u00a0scenes of the Tapestry, intended as a beginner’s guide, Bayeux Tapestry Online<\/strong> also includes commentary<\/strong> on each of the 173 panels, detailing all major and minor interpretative issues in the Tapestry; the ability to toggle between English and Latin in the inscriptions; a clickable\u00a0genealogy<\/strong> of William and Harold’s ties to the English throne; an animated and clickable\u00a0map<\/strong> of English and Norman geography of the Tapestry, and a map of the battlefield; a\u00a0library<\/strong> featuring translations of seventeen textual analogues to the events depicted in the Tapestry; a\u00a0museum<\/strong> containing thirty-seven visual analogues (medieval artifacts, manuscript illuminations, archaeological remains, etc.) to aspects of the Tapestry; full scrollable and zoomable versions of three early (pre-restoration)\u00a0facsimiles of the Tapestry and much, much more.<\/p>\n

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You can access this database via E-resources trials<\/strong><\/a>.
\nAccess is available on and off-campus.
\nTrial access ends 31st December 2019.<\/em>
\nFeedback welcome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback<\/a> on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.<\/p>\n

Caroline Stirling \u2013 Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*The Library now has access to this resource. Find out more at New to the Library: Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition.* Thanks to a request from staff in HCA I’m pleased to let you know the Library currently has trial access … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4,164,13],"tags":[260,259,81,97,7,111,245,261,262,6,32,10,263,80,17,82],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dF2q-ON","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}