Open Domesday - by Anna Powell-Smith

A database returning JSON structured data records from the Domesday book using Representational state transfer (REST) techniques.

In my research into the history of Belchamp Walter and the surrounding area of course I was aware of the Domesday connection. Up to the time of writing this page I had not focused on some of the publications and research that many others have completed on the subject. I was a little dismissive of the "Belchamp Walter is/was mentioned in the Domesday book", as most of the UK can make that claim.

How Anna Powell-Smith describes the project:

The API

The opendomesday database can be queried and the data passed back in JSON format.

I like Anna's note about the fact that the API was included when she thought that APIs were important and I thank her for pointing me in the direction of RESTful (see link to Wikipedia below).

University of Hull -

A link on either the University of Hull or the opendomsday_org site is to a Borland Database Engine setup. I think that this shows the age of the venture as I have not seen a reference to Delphi or C++ for a while. There once was a time that I was a Turbo Pascal dabbler, but not for a while. I pretty much started out on the PC using dBase III and dBase 4, before Borland aquired them and came up with Delphi.