jonathan purday senior communications advisor oxford, february 2012 europeana 1914-1918
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Jonathan PurdaySenior Communications Advisor
Oxford, February 2012
Europeana 1914-1918
Europeana 1914 -1918
Built on the RunCoCo platform devised by Oxford for the Great War Archive
1914-1918 family history roadshows – events at which we catalogued and digitised stories, papers and memorabilia
Provided a website to which people could upload their own material
Phase 1: 2011 Germany
9 Roadshow events across Germany
600 people came to the roadshows; 350
contributed material
560 people contributed through the website
26,000 images and scans entered Europeana
40% of these were uploaded direct to site
Most of the material was unpublished: letters,
diaries, drawings, photographs, postcards
Phase 2: Spring 2012
Luxembourg, 6 March
Preston, UK, 10 March
Dublin, Ireland, 21 March
Nova Goriza, Slovenia, 28 March
Sønderborg Castle, Denmark, 24 April
Luxembourg 6 March 2012
80 contributors, 2,000 scans
Preston 10 March 2012
112 contributors
220 visitors
2,300 scans
Dublin 21March 2012
300 contributors
600 visitors
???? scans
‘Nobody else has ever read these and nobody will want them when I’ve gone’
‘WW1 is a forgotten story here – or nobody wanted to hear it’
‘It’s falling to pieces;it won’t last much longer’
‘I think I’m the last one who knows who they were’
‘I’ve never used the Internet - but my nephew can show me’
‘I want to share their story. Out of respect, I suppose’
Phase 3: Hackathons, April-June 2012
Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Ireland
Using the API to develop prototype apps
1914-1918 data is openly licenced; content is
CC-BY-SA
Competition to be announced by
Commissioner for Digital Agenda on 9 May
Prize is the opportunity to develop the
prototype app to production standard
Phase 4:
Collaboration with Europeana Collections 1914-1918 and European Film Gateway 1914-1918 on online exhibitions and education resources
Building a European partnership of local libraries and museums as centres of community history
Making our API available to distribute our WW1 data widely
More roadshows and language versions of the site
• Belgium, Autumn 2012
• Italy, Spring 2013
• France
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Portugal
• Poland
• Russia... Turkey... ?
