Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online 179199 and 183445 Collaboration between academic and public

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Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online(1791-99
and 1834-45)Collaboration between academic and
public sectors
Barbara Morris Service Co-ordinator
Email edina_at_ed.ac.uk
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Collaborative Working

• Joint Board for the Statistical Accounts of
  Scotland

Scottish Library and Information Council
Scottish Confederation of University and Research
Libraries
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Map of ScotlandNew Statistical Account (1845)
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What are the Statistical Accounts?

• First (Old) Statistical account 1791-99, a
  contemporary Domesday Book for Scotland (in 21
  volumes)
• Second (New) Statistical Account 1834-45 (15
  volumes)
• detailed descriptions of 938 parishes compiled by
  clergy
• statistical tables, maps, and diagrams
• important source material in the critical 40-50
  years during the Agricultural and Industrial
  Revolutions topography climate botany
  population disease agriculture wages
  architecture roads schools fishing
  minerals remarkable occurrences morals

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Service Preparation

• 29,000 pages scanned a SCURL initiative funded
  by the JISC
• 29,000 scanned page images typed to permit
  keyword/phrase searchingfunded by the National
  Archives of Scotland
• interface developed by EDINA
• tested in public and academic institutions
• FREE service launched January 2001

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The Old Statistical Account of the Parish of
Ceres, Fife
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(No Transcript)
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(No Transcript)
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Fiars in Berwick (price of grain) 1689-1792
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Census data, 1785-93
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Who is using the Statistical Accounts Online?

• most heavily used source in Scottish libraries
• more than 10,000 users online since January 2001
• 75 of users are from outside the United Kingdom
• from public, private and academic sectorsschools
  botanists geologists historians
  genealogists epidemiologists architects

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Future developments

• Guided by an Editor and the Joint Board for the
  Statistical Accounts of Scotland
• New features from October 2001 -
• Access to re-typed text for cut-and-paste
  (FREE)
• Advanced searching e.g. statistical tables
  (SUBSCRIPTION)
• New features from 2002 - Links via graphic
  front-end to historic maps, place-name
  gazetteers, (SUBSCRIPTION)

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• To use this FREE service, log into the
  Statistical Accounts on the Web at
• http//edina.ac.uk/
• To find out about future developments, email
• edina_at_ed.ac.uk