Moving forward: modelling and indexing WWI battalionsA super-quick update from my CENDARI Fellowship this week. I set up the wiki for
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In their own words: linking lived experiences of the First World War
a week ago but only got stuck into populating it with lists of various national battalions this week. My current task list, copied from the front page is to:<div><ul><li> Populate list of military units: <a href="
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let me know
! Or just get stuck in and edit the site.</div><div>
</div><div>I've started another Google Doc with very sketchy
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Notes towards modelling information about World War One Battalions
. I need to test it with more battalion histories and update it iteratively. At this stage my thinking is to turn it into an InfoBox format to create structured data via the wiki. It's all very lo-fi and much less designed than my usual projects, but I'm hoping people will be able to help regardless.</div></div><div>
</div><div>So, i
n this phase of the project, the aim is find a personal narrative - a diary, letters, memoirs or images - for each military unit in the British Army. You are not allowed to view links.
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