http://www.kentarchaeology.ac
The library committee set up the .ac website to be under the supervision of the KAS Honorary Librarian, with content control to be exercised by the KAS Honorary Editor. The project draws on professional advice in the areas of website design and library standards. The site is designed to be a peer-reviewed site adhering to standards set by the Editor with a view to gaining academic acceptance. Any committee wishing to be represented on the site must comply with the set standards. The site was designed to be a free on-line resource for the use of the general public worldwide and to assert our educational charity status.
On-line publishing
The following items have been added since the last newsletter:
eBOOK_Kentish Dialect
The full title of this 1888 publication is ‘A Dictionary of the KENTISH DIALECT and provincialisms in use in the county of Kent’.Basan and Bata: The Occupational Surnames of Two Pre-Conquest Monks of Canterbury.
As hereditary surnames were not common in Anglo-Saxon England, men of the same name were differentiated by sobriquets based on their place of origin, …
Note that Kentish Dialect is an ebook and has a large file size. This will be no problem to broadband users but dial-up users can expect it to take up to 30 minutes.
Catalogues
The visual records group continue to add more data.
The Gordon Ward Archive of ephemera relating to towns and villages in Kent should be complete by the time this newsletter is published.
As new books are acquired they are added to the library book stock on-line catalogue.
Work is in hand to add a new catalogue which will detail the many documents lodged by the Society at Kent Archives. Researchers will be able to search the whole catalogue by place/che-son words including the use of wild cards etc. This new database should appear in spring 2005.
Forum (a new facility)
A new facility has been added and can be accessed at http://forum.kentarchaeology.ac. The first forum to be activated is Kent Place and Field Names moderated by Karl Wittwer and Paul Cullen. If any other special interest group wishes to have a forum please contact me with the names of at least two responsible moderators willing to undertake the task. Nothing appears until approved by a moderator.
Denis Anstey
Project Manager
Email d@degian.demon.co.uk