<ul><li>The First World War Poetry  </li></ul><ul><li>Digital Archive </li></ul><ul><li>and </li></ul><ul><li>The Great Wa...
<ul><li>1996: JISC funded the Virtual Seminars Project </li></ul><ul><li>Drew together primary materials on Wilfred Owen s...
<ul><li>To make primary source material available to researchers and students which would otherwise be difficult to access...
<ul><li>Requirements Gathering and user profiling </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Collected feedback from the the Virtual Seminars W...
<ul><li>Project web site  </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Image taster blogs </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Pre release of ...
<ul><li>Images digitised as TIFFs and delivered as JPGs, Audio as MP3, Video as MPEG 4 </li></ul><ul><li>Catalogued using ...
<ul><li>c. 4700 digital images of primary source material (manuscripts, letters, service records) from major British WW1 p...
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http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
<ul><li>Run between March 08 and June 08. </li></ul><ul><li>A ‘Community Collection’ to harvest digital versions of items ...
<ul><li>Simple submission process, no need for registration. </li></ul><ul><li>Contributors asked to agree to basic terms ...
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The Great War Archive: Submission Days <ul><li>A roadshow to offer on the spot digitisatio...
<ul><li>Over 6500 items collected. </li></ul><ul><li>Only 1 item rejected. </li></ul><ul><li>Costs came in at c. £3.50 per...
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
<ul><li>To provide a platform upon which users can: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>participate in the creation of content - timelin...
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  1. 1. <ul><li>The First World War Poetry </li></ul><ul><li>Digital Archive </li></ul><ul><li>and </li></ul><ul><li>The Great War Archive </li></ul><ul><li>Kate Lindsay </li></ul><ul><li>OUCS & Faculty of English </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
  2. 2. <ul><li>1996: JISC funded the Virtual Seminars Project </li></ul><ul><li>Drew together primary materials on Wilfred Owen scattered across a range of archives and an array of contextual resources (WOMDA) </li></ul><ul><li>Web based tutorials to advance the possibilities of traditional teaching </li></ul><ul><li>One of the first multimedia collections designed specifically as a teaching resource -more than 1 million hits. </li></ul><ul><li>Funding received for Apr 07 - Mar 09 and Oct 08 - Sept 09 to expand and enhance the archive (JISC Digitisation Programme). </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
  3. 3. <ul><li>To make primary source material available to researchers and students which would otherwise be difficult to access </li></ul><ul><li>To place the material in context thus widening the site’s appeal to include history, military history, women studies, and media studies </li></ul><ul><li>To add value by providing tools for research and education </li></ul><ul><li>To harvest digital versions of items held by the general public originating from the First World War. </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Goals of The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
  4. 4. <ul><li>Requirements Gathering and user profiling </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Collected feedback from the the Virtual Seminars Web site </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Survey asking users how they would like to see the Archive expanded </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Teaching First World War Literature Workshop </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>What are the learning objectives of existing courses you that you teach on WW1 literature? </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Does this differ to what you think they should they be? If so how? </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Should we be teaching courses on War Literature/Poetry or just First World War Literature/Poetry? </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Do the canonical poets truly reflect the attitudes at the time to the War? </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>What other “literatures” should we look to include (e.g. drama, film, audio, trench literature, etc.)? </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Are there any practical problems in extending the canon? </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><li>User-based steering group </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit User Engagement
  5. 5. <ul><li>Project web site </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Image taster blogs </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Pre release of educational materials </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><li>5. Community Building </li></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Google discussion groups </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>FB Group </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><ul><ul><li>Twitter ‘On this day’ </li></ul></ul></ul><ul><li>6. Two extensive user testing periods with real users </li></ul><ul><li>7. Series of creating First World War Teaching Materials Workshops for teachers and lecturers </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit User Engagement
  6. 6. <ul><li>Images digitised as TIFFs and delivered as JPGs, Audio as MP3, Video as MPEG 4 </li></ul><ul><li>Catalogued using Extensis Portfolio </li></ul><ul><li>Images digitally watermarked using DigiMark </li></ul><ul><li>Off the shelf CMS: CONTENTdm </li></ul><ul><li>Own build web front-end in Ruby on Rails, CSS, XHTML </li></ul><ul><li>Path Creation Tool: RESTful web application </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Technicalities
  7. 7. <ul><li>c. 4700 digital images of primary source material (manuscripts, letters, service records) from major British WW1 poets. </li></ul><ul><li>Online corpora of the full-texts of </li></ul><ul><li>the poems. </li></ul><ul><li>c. 500 Multimedia objects (photographs, </li></ul><ul><li>audio and video) from the IWM. </li></ul><ul><li>Publications of War (recruitment </li></ul><ul><li>posters, trench papers etc.) </li></ul><ul><li>All freely accessible for educational use </li></ul><ul><li>under the JISC/HEFCE Model license </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The Archive’s Collections
  8. 8. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
  9. 9. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
  10. 10. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
  11. 11. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
  12. 12. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
  13. 13. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
  14. 14. <ul><li>Run between March 08 and June 08. </li></ul><ul><li>A ‘Community Collection’ to harvest digital versions of items originating from the Great War held by members of the general public. </li></ul><ul><li>Aim: To create a digital collection of worth at low cost by negating the need for institutional digitisation and metadata creation. </li></ul><ul><li>Targeted specifically at genealogists, military collectors and enthusiasts, and the elderly. </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The Great War Archive Initiative
  15. 15. <ul><li>Simple submission process, no need for registration. </li></ul><ul><li>Contributors asked to agree to basic terms and conditions of the JISC/HEFCE Model license. </li></ul><ul><li>Enter basic metadata and attach files / enter a story. </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The Great War Archive Initiative: Submission Website
  16. 16. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The Great War Archive: Submission Days <ul><li>A roadshow to offer on the spot digitisation and advice. </li></ul><ul><li>Held at libraries, museums and archives </li></ul><ul><li>across the country. </li></ul><ul><li>A submission day pack was made </li></ul><ul><li>available for organisations who wished </li></ul><ul><li>to perform their own event. </li></ul>
  17. 17. <ul><li>Over 6500 items collected. </li></ul><ul><li>Only 1 item rejected. </li></ul><ul><li>Costs came in at c. £3.50 per image BUT we did perform digitisation on items posted to us (we didn’t have the heart to say no!). </li></ul><ul><li>Highly commended for the THE Awards and UCISA Award for Excellence. </li></ul><ul><li>Submission software (CoCoCo) released to the open source community. </li></ul><ul><li>A Flickr Group continues to collect items. </li></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The Great War Archive Initiative: Outputs
  18. 18. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
  19. 19. <ul><li>To provide a platform upon which users can: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>participate in the creation of content - timelines, paths, googlemaps, mindmaps…… </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Visualise data in new and interesting ways and in doing so come to new understandings </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Form new narratives on the archival content within a community </li></ul></ul>http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit 2009 Objectives

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