Mapping the past: old worlds being opened up by technology - Education News | Primary, Secondary & Third Level | The Irish Time - Thu, Feb 06, 2014
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Old city maps, 3D battle plans, Irish translations of Lewis Carroll and more – centuries-old archived books, maps and documents are becoming available through digitisation projects
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Fancy a stroll through the streets of Paris or London as they would have looked in 1650? How about flying over a 3D battle plan showing the placement of armies when Sweden went to war against the Germans in 1718? Or maybe you would like to read an early translation into Irish of Aesop’s Fables, Lewis Carroll or Anton Chekhov?
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All of this becomes possible when centuries-old archived books, maps and documents become available through a coming-together of humanities research and the latest digital technology. Best of all, most of these digitised resources are being made available to the public and academic community free of charge.