Rethinking the First World War(or…can technology move use beyond the trenches?)

Oxford’s Digital Projects

Kate LindsayManager for Engagement, Academic IT Services

Director, World War I Centenary: Continuations and BeginningsUniversity of Oxford

@KTDigital / @WW1C

Images: British Library via the First World War Poetry Digital Archive

It all started with poetry….

www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

Images: Blunden Family Archive via the First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Images: Imperial War Museum via the First World War Poetry Digital Archive

They contributed to a community collection

www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

Germany (2011)

Germany (2011)

Luxembourg (2012)Ireland (2012)UK Preston (2012)Slovenia (2012)Denmark (2012)

Germany (2011)

Luxembourg (2012)Ireland (2012)UK Preston (2012)Slovenia (2012)Denmark (2012)

UK Banbury (3 Nov 2012)Cyprus (Nov 2012)Belgium (Dec 2012)Italy (Mar 2013)

France?Poland?Malta?Austria?Switzerland?Romania?Portugal?Spain?Norway?… ?

http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2012/0321/media-3234751.html

CC BY NC SA = Collect, Create, Remix

Collect - Resource Library

• Links to existing high quality OER on the World Wide Web

• Selected by a team of student ambassadors and academics

• Global OER Widgets• Surface ‘Popular’ resources• Links to the ‘big’ WW1 OER

collections

Image: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

@Arras95: Contribute, Collaborate, Commemorate

• Twitter campaign between 9th April and 16th May 2012.

• Surface a key, but lesser taught, turning point of the War.

• Increase the visibility of existing open content around this one focal point

• Crowdsource an archive of knowledge about the event.

Create - Collaborative Blog

• Experts from across a range of disciplines.

• New ideas, unrefined thoughts, reviews, republish previous work.

• Surface existing open materials.• No style guide and requires no

specific referencing format.

Image: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

Open publishing

• Community open to open publishing and open licenses.

• Opportunity to enhance reputation, for public engagement and get feedback..

• Role shifts in a new writing space

• Built open literacy• What is academic?

Image: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

Remix

To re-present digital content around World War I in technologically innovative and inventive ways to showcase the full potential of using open material to seed academic debate.

Image: Otis Historical Archive, CC BY-NC-SA..

Image: Library of Congress, WW1 Poster Archive. Public Domain.

Can technology move us ‘beyond the trenches’?

Kate LindsayManager for Engagement, Academic IT Services

Director, World War I Centenary: Continuations and BeginningsUniversity of Oxford

@KTDigital / @WW1C