BBC Domesday Project

The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between <a href="/facts/Acorn_Computers/jCddUElC">Acorn Computers</a>, <a href="/facts/Philips/Xp4uczGg">Philips</a>, <a href="/facts/Logica/8JnpJLtt">Logica</a>, and the <a href="/facts/BBC/qFateIz8">BBC</a> (with some funding from the <a href="/facts/European_Commission/Cc5JgbEI">European Commission</a>'s <a href="/facts/European_Strategic_Program_on_Research_in_Information_Technology/3VIIh8bG">ESPRIT</a> programme) to mark the 900th anniversary of the original <a href="/facts/Domesday_Book/zTlp51pg">Domesday Book</a>, an 11th-century <a href="/facts/Census/dePeULsk">census</a> of <a href="/facts/England/U9mE5bGL">England</a>. It has been cited as an example of <a href="/facts/Digital_obsolescence/hdddcVhe">digital obsolescence</a> on account of the physical medium used for data storage.
This new <a href="/facts/Multimedia/PtJteq27">multimedia</a> edition of Domesday was compiled between 1984 and 1986 and published in 1986. It included a new "survey" of the <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a>, in which people, mostly school children, wrote about geography, history or social issues in their local area or just about their daily lives. This was linked with maps, and many colour photos, statistical data, video and "virtual walks". The project also incorporated professionally prepared video footage, <a href="/facts/Virtual_reality/0psDGsxT">virtual reality</a> tours of major landmarks and other prepared datasets such as the 1981 census. Over a million people participated in the project, including children from more than 9,000 schools.

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BBC Domesday Project