jonathan purday senior communications advisor oxford, february 2012 europeana 1914-1918
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Jonathan PurdaySenior Communications Advisor
Oxford, February 2012
Europeana 1914-1918
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Europeana 1914 -1918
Built on the RunCoCo platform devised by Oxford for the Great War Archive
1914-1918 family history roadshows – events at which we catalogued and digitised stories, papers and memorabilia
Provided a website to which people could upload their own material
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Phase 1: 2011 Germany
9 Roadshow events across Germany
600 people came to the roadshows; 350
contributed material
560 people contributed through the website
26,000 images and scans entered Europeana
40% of these were uploaded direct to site
Most of the material was unpublished: letters,
diaries, drawings, photographs, postcards
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Phase 2: Spring 2012
Luxembourg, 6 March
Preston, UK, 10 March
Dublin, Ireland, 21 March
Nova Goriza, Slovenia, 28 March
Sønderborg Castle, Denmark, 24 April
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Luxembourg 6 March 2012
80 contributors, 2,000 scans
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Preston 10 March 2012
112 contributors
220 visitors
2,300 scans
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Dublin 21March 2012
300 contributors
600 visitors
???? scans
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‘Nobody else has ever read these and nobody will want them when I’ve gone’
‘WW1 is a forgotten story here – or nobody wanted to hear it’
‘It’s falling to pieces;it won’t last much longer’
‘I think I’m the last one who knows who they were’
‘I’ve never used the Internet - but my nephew can show me’
‘I want to share their story. Out of respect, I suppose’
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Phase 3: Hackathons, April-June 2012
Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Ireland
Using the API to develop prototype apps
1914-1918 data is openly licenced; content is
CC-BY-SA
Competition to be announced by
Commissioner for Digital Agenda on 9 May
Prize is the opportunity to develop the
prototype app to production standard
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Phase 4:
Collaboration with Europeana Collections 1914-1918 and European Film Gateway 1914-1918 on online exhibitions and education resources
Building a European partnership of local libraries and museums as centres of community history
Making our API available to distribute our WW1 data widely
More roadshows and language versions of the site
• Belgium, Autumn 2012
• Italy, Spring 2013
• France
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Portugal
• Poland
• Russia... Turkey... ?