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SUMMARY:The Great War Archive Project
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DESCRIPTION:In 2007-2009 Oxford University ran a small-scale pilot as part
  of a much wider initiative focused on preserving the cultural heritage of
  the First World War online. The Great War Archive (GWA) took a new approa
 ch to digitisation\, but at the same time was a continuation of many activ
 ities which have successfully engaged the public. In short\, the GWA asked
  members of the public to submit via a simple online form\, digital surrog
 ates of material they personally owned that related to the Great War. In a
 ddition a series of 'submission days' were held around the UK whereby peop
 le brought in artefacts and they were digitised there and then. Although i
 t only ran for three months the project was a major success attracting int
 ernational press coverage.  In just 12 weeks it collected over 6\,500 obje
 cts at a tenth of the price of traditional digitisation methods.\n\nThe pr
 oject established workflows and processes that allowed people with only ba
 sic IT literacy to submit items to the collection and catalogue them remov
 ing cost from the central team. Anyone submitting also agreed to simple co
 pyright agreements which meant the material could be redistributed freely 
 for educational purposes. In a stroke then it cut through long-standinf de
 bates on metadata standards and IPR by placing the decision with the user\
 , not with the team. More importantly it also achieved two other objective
 s:\n\ni) it engaged the public in a University research project - which is
  extremely important in today's climate where Universities are increasingl
 y having to justify their work in terms of impact\nii) it unearthed a rang
 e of previously undiscovered material\, breaking the traditional cycle of 
 concentrating on the same set of material held in national archives\, and 
 for many items the individual's story was also recorded\n\nThe success of 
 the project has led to a major initiative funded in the UK to launch a ser
 ies of community collections. This talk will conclude by outlining some of
  the ways forward both at a UK-level\, and also at a pan-European level.\n
 Dr Stuart D Lee\nReader in eLearning and Digital Libraries\, University of
  Oxford\n\nJobs: Director\, Great War Archive\nLecturer in English Literat
 ure\, University of Oxford\nDirector\, Computing Systems & Services\n\nOth
 er affiliations: Merton College\, Oxford\nNational Teaching Fellow\n\nWeb:
  http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/\n \n\nThe presentation will be in English.
 Organised by: Susanne Schaefer (CERN Library)\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/con
 ferenceDisplay.py?confId=89531
LOCATION:CERN 60-6-015
URL:http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=89531
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