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Oxford University's Great War Archive project.TRANSCRIPT
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
The Great War Archive: Oxford University’s Community Collection
Dr Stuart D LeeReader in E-learning and Digital Libraries
Director, Computing ServicesSenior Lecturer, English Faculty
Merton CollegeUniversity of Oxford
To start
• Cuts
• Impact
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive1996-1998 £50k
2006-2008 £450k
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
Web 2.0 = new audiences and means of Web 2.0 = new audiences and means of disseminationdissemination
Web 2.0 = new audiences and means of Web 2.0 = new audiences and means of disseminationdissemination
RSS
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Virtual Worlds (e.g. SecondLife)Virtual Worlds (e.g. SecondLife)Virtual Worlds (e.g. SecondLife)Virtual Worlds (e.g. SecondLife)
A ‘typical’ digitization project• 6,000+ digital images of rare/unique
items related to the poets of WW1• Several hundred historical photographs,
audio/video clips• Selected by experts, curators, etc;
digitised and catalogued professionally• Catalogued and presented for searching
and browsing
Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook (2000)Project Lifecycle
• Instigation of Project• Assess and Select
Material for Digitization• Prepare Material• Digitize• Edit• Deliver• Support
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Increase AccessMeet Strategic GoalsPreservation
Increase AccessMeet Strategic GoalsPreservation
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ContentDM
Changes
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Some figures
• 15m people in London each day
• c. 85% own a digital camera or smartphone = 12.75m
• If only 1% used their camera, and took 1 picture = 127,500 images TODAY
• 20 minutes to catalogue an image using traditional levels of metadata
• 42,500 hours
• 21 years for one person
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
‘The Factory made possible mass production, mass consumption … The web could make innovation and creativity a mass activity that engages millions … [future generations] will expect and welcome opportunities to participate, collaborate, share and work with their peers.’
C. Leadbeater We-Think (www.wethinkthebook.net)
‘Community Collections’
• Online collections created by public communities for public communities
• The public:
- contributes material AND digitizes- agrees copyright- catalogues material
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
Ran from March to June 2008
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Contribution: process
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The Great War Archive:
Submission Website
Welcome Welcome and and instructionsinstructions
Simple online Simple online submissions submissions processprocess
No need for No need for registrationregistration
Contributors Contributors asked to agree asked to agree to basic terms to basic terms & conditions& conditions
Enter contact Enter contact detailsdetailsNot required to register.
Can request to be kept anonymous.
Submission Submission choicechoiceAttach files / enter a story.
E.g. E.g. Attach fileAttach file
Enter basic Enter basic metadatametadata
Review Review submissionsubmission
Submission Submission completecomplete‘Thank you’ message
Includes notice of when the collection goes Live, link to submit some more & a feedback form
Cataloguer & Cataloguer & Administrator:Administrator:To check items for their validity.
To correct or add to the metadata
To flag items of particular interest/value
Great War Archive: Submission Days
http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
• 5 members of staff - 2 to digitize material (i.e. photograph and scan) - 2 to help catalogue and upload material - 1 to deal with the public as they come in
• 2-3 computers, 1 flatbed scanner, 2 cameras (2 megapixels), tripods, flat surface, audio recorder
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Public contributors upload 5,900 digital objects to the website
Project uploads 600 digital objects from submissions days
3,000 images in the Flickr Group since July 2008
600600
Great War Archive: What We Received
Gunner James Ryan
Total War
Disappearing History
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Traditional Community Collection
£40 per image$60
£3.50 per image$5.25
Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook (2000)
Project Lifecycle
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
Free software - CoCoCo: “collect and catalogue content contributed by
website users”
• Run collection
• Export collection to web delivery system• Freely available, Open source
http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/cococo.html
[email protected]://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
ProjectWoruldhord
• projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord
• A community collection based on the Anglo-Saxons
1st July - 14th October
No submission days just online
Not much publicly owned material from the period
Concentrate more on ‘teaching resources’
Willing to accept - photographs, audio, video, presentations, handouts, reading lists, pre-prints, book chapters, works inspired by the period etc
Croydon SittingbourneThese items are from Project Woruldhord (projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord) © Croydon Museum © Anglo-Saxon CSI: Sittingbourne
This item is from Project Woruldhord (projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord) © Trustees of the British Museum
This item is from Project Woruldhord (projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord) © K. Kilpatrck
This item is from Project Woruldhord (projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord) © Matt Love (Engliscan Gesithas)
Results400 individual contributions so far
could be one image, one handout, or 1-200 images
estimate around 3,500 ‘objects’ (c. £2 per object)
Next Steps
• Launch Woruldhord in December/January
• Further modification to CoCoCo software• Running a small Great War Archive in
Germany (Spring, 2011) then possibly France
• Large global initiative prior to 2014
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Observations• Communities and existing
networks are the key
• Keep it focused, concentrate attention on one ‘big’ thing
• Do not ‘overthink’ the problem
• The public know more than we think
• A cost effective way to create a mass of digital objects and engage the public
• Reassess what is important?
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To conclude
• Cuts
• Impact
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This item is from The Great War Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa); © MAUREEN ROGERS
This item is from The Great War Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa); © MAUREEN ROGERS
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lithttp://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
The Great War Archive: Oxford University’s Community Collection
Dr Stuart D LeeReader in E-learning and Digital Libraries
Director, Computing ServicesSenior Lecturer, English Faculty
Merton CollegeUniversity of Oxford