Muninn WWI is an international, interdisciplinary project which investigates innovative uses of First World War Records.
Our aim is to take as many digitized First World War records as possible to create a huge database. We would then extract the written data using advanced computer technology, and turn the resulting information into structured databases. Thanks to a large computer array in Canada, these databases will support a number of different research agendas.
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Institutional Reconstitution – create a digital model of the armed forces
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Social History Database – providing useful datasets for social historians of the early Twentieth Century
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Modelling Infectious Disease – using medical records pertaining to the Spanish Flu and STIs we could model the transmission of infectious diseases through the armed forces
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Crises and Medical Language – linguists would like to analyse the impact of medical emergencies on bureaucratic language
Partner universities:
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University of Western Ontario
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University of Cambridge
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University of Waterloo
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University of Hull
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Carleton University
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Brown University
Project coordinated by Dr Pierre Purseigle and Dr Jenny Macleod (University of Hull)
For more information, please visit the MuninnWWI Website.