1. 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 Stuart.lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk

2. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit The First World War Poetry Digital Archive 1996-1998 £50k 2006-2008 £450k

3. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

4. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Virtual Worlds (e.g. SecondLife)

5. 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

6. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit ContentDM

7. ‘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

8. Ran from March to June 2008

9. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

10. Contribution: process

11. Simple online submissions process No need for registration Welcome and instructions The Great War Archive: Submission Website http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

12. Contributors asked to agree to basic terms & conditions

13. Enter contact details Not required to register. Can request to be kept anonymous.

14. Submission choice Attach files / enter a story.

15. E.g. Attach file

16. Enter basic metadata

17. Review submission

18. Submission complete ‘Thank you’ message Includes notice of when the collection goes Live, link to submit some more & a feedback form

19. Cataloguer & Administrator: To check items for their validity. To correct or add to the metadata To flag items of particular interest/value

20. Great War Archive: Submission Days

23. 2-3 computers, 1 flatbed scanner, 2 cameras (2 megapixels), tripods, flat surface, audio recorderhttp://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

24. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

25. Great War Archive: What We Received 3,000 images in the Flickr Group since July 2008 Project uploads 600 digital objects from submissions days 600 Public contributors upload 5,900 digital objects to the website

26. Gunner James Ryan

28. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit Traditional Community Collection £3.50 per image $5.25 £40 per image $60

29. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook (2000) Project Lifecycle Instigation of Project Assess and Select Material for Digitization Prepare Material Digitize Edit Deliver Support http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

30. 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 runcoco@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

31. What next? Large scale project for Britain and Ireland … … cross-Europe … … global … NominetTrust > can this be used for skills training ERC Advanced Investigator Grant http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

32. Erste Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten Europeana and National Library of Germany German submission site Training – Frankfurt Submission days – Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Berlin (late March/early April) Collection ingested into Europeana and Oxford site http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

33. http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ 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 Stuart.lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk