19th Century Pamphlets Online
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The aim of the project was to provide researchers, teachers and learners with online access to significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held within UK research libraries. The project drew on the pamphlet holdings of seven research libraries (Bristol, Durham, Liverpool, LSE, Manchester, Newcastle and UCL), choosing collections that focused on the political, social and economic issues of the day. It scanned these collections within the University of Southampton Library's specialist BOPCRIS Digitisation Centre and then sent the datasets to JSTOR for archiving and delivery via their online publishing platform. Mimas enabled links to the digitised pamphlets to be added to the national Copac catalogue and to local library catalogues.
Archival datasets were transformed by JSTOR for delivery.
| Project start date: 2007-03 | Project end date: 2009-02 |
Subject domains:
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Text recognition | Data capture |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Collaborative publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| text | Content types |
Funding sources:
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), RLUK
Content types created:
Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
MySQL, Saxon, PHP, Apache Software Foundation's HTTP Basic Authentication, Meta Tool
Source material used:
The project digitised significant 19th Century pamphlet collections from the university libraries of Bristol, Durham, Liverpool, LSE, Manchester, Newcastle and UCL.
The pamplets focus on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century
Digital resource created:
The project has created full text and images of more than 1 million pamphlet pages, comprising over 26,000 pamphlets in all. The collection was digitised and made available as a JSTOR collection called 19th Century British Pamphlets.
Data Formats created:
JPEG, TIFF, XML, TXT
Metadata standards employed:
Machine Readable Cataloguing (MARC), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), Preservation Metadata (PREMIS), NISO Metadata for Images in XML (MIX), Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University College London |
| University of Southampton |
| University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
| University of Bristol |
| University of Liverpool |
| University of Manchester |
| Durham University |
| LSE |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| JSTOR |
| RLUK |
| MIMAS |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Mark Brown, Grant Young |
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| Other staff: | |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Grant Young |
| Title | 19th Century Pamphlets Online |
| Record created | 2010-03-14 |
| Record updated | 2010-03-15 11:46 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2678 |
| Citation of record | Grant Young: 19th Century Pamphlets Online. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2678> created: 2010-03-14, last updated 2010-03-15 11:46 |