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5 unusual facts about BBC Domesday Project


BBC Domesday Project

The National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes has two working Domesday systems accessible by visitors to the Museum.

The project had begun years before JPEG image compression and before truecolour computer video cards had become widely available.

In 2011 a team at BBC Learning, headed by George Auckland republished much of the Community disc data in a web based format.

European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology

BBC Domesday Project, a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme, to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th-century census of England.

Peter William Armstrong

He is best known for innovative religious programming and as the founder of the BBC's Domesday Project (1986).



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