The BBC Domesday Project was a new multimedia version of Domesday, compiled between 1984 and 1986. It used the very latest technology of the day, being based on the BBC computer with a laserdisc, with information collected from national sources together with members of the community.

In 2002, there were fears that the information on the BBC Domesday system would become lost, due to the increasing rarity of the computers required to run the system, and the wearing down of the remaining discs in circulation. The CAMiLEON project was started to rescue the data, by making a digital copy of the discs, and creating an emulation program of the hardware. It was successful in these aims, with the emulator being available for viewing at the National Archives in Kew, and for a while a large part of the data was available on the web.

This site is primarily a holding area for work in following this process to extract the BBC Domesday data and images, and re-create the emulator on a modern system.

Current work on creating a Domesday emulator:

Links to other sites describing the Domesday project, and the rescue attempts: