electronic ephemera digitized selections from the john johnson collection
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Electronic Ephemera
Digitized selections from the John Johnson Collection
Ephemera
‘the minor transient documents of everyday life…’
Maurice Rickards
‘the ephemera of today becomes the evidential data of tomorrow ...’
John de Monins Johnson
Project material
• Entertainment: theatre material (mainly by venue) and non-theatrical material (mainly by genre). Mainly 19th-century, as much 18th-century entertainment material is already available through the Oxford Digital Library at: http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library
• Booktrade: publishing material (e.g. prospectuses of books and journals) and bookplates
• Noteheadings and Popular Prints: record of locations, landscapes and topography, architecture, events, and popular tastes for artistic works and humour
• Crime, Murders, and Executions: detailing aspects of the
judicial system and its punishments • Advertising: in all its printed forms
Project participants
• the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) provides funds and a project framework
• the Bodleian manages the content development aspects of the project:
o sorting & shelfmarkingo cataloguingo conservationo trackingo digitisation (Capita)
• ProQuest are responsible for delivery of the resource, and its associated services, on the web
Electronic Ephemera: digitized selections from the John Johnson Collection
David TomkinsProject ManagerJohn Johnson Project Rooms (218 and 219)Bodleian LibraryBroad StreetOxford OX1 3BG
Tel: 01865-287131Email: [email protected]
Web: http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/home.do
Blog: http://johnjohnson.wordpress.com/