The Muninn WWI Project

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Welcome to the Muninn Project, an international, interdisciplinary, academic project investigating electronic images of documents from the First World War, and turning them into machine-readable databases in the service of a number of different research areas.

Muninn is currently at an early stage, but we already have team representatives from five different universities located in Canada, the UK and the US. Among these researchers are experts in the computer science of data extraction, statistics, military history, social history, literature and language, and biostatistics.

Please feel free to contact us at contact@muninn-project.org.

If you want to receive updates on our progress you can sign up for our announcements email list by going to this page or sending an email to announce-subscribe@muninn-project.org.

What We Are Creating

Muninn is going to produce a lot of data. With millions of documents in our prospective source pool, there will be more than enough information to keep a very large team of researchers working for a very long time. If you have an interest in the First World War-era, from any perspective, then please let us know what data products you would like to see. We already have researchers working on applications as disparate as euphemistic language, military bureaucracy and the Spanish Flu.

Are there specific data output formats which would be useful to your project? Great! Drop us an email at data@muninn-project.org, We want the to be distributed as widely as possible during the data extraction and organisation process.

Beyond the First World War

Ultimately, our work will not only be of importance to the First World War era. The research we conduct will be of importance to anybody interested in the problem of getting information out of large volumes of archival material. We anticipate that this will be especially important for archives relating to developing countries, a description which applies very much to the Western powers which fought the Great War. If you have a large corpus of digital archives, particularly where conflict, medical information and/or large bureaucratic organisations are involved, please consider contacting us to discuss how we can help each other.

The Muninn team is very excited to be getting underway with our WWI digital archives project, and we hope that you can share in our enthusiasm. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at contact@muninn-project.org.