http:// www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The Great War Archive: Oxford University’s Community Collection Dr Stuart D Lee Reader in E-learning and Digital Libraries Director, Computing Services Senior Lecturer, English Faculty Merton College University of Oxford [email protected]
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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
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
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‘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
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