First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Submitted by
Kate Lindsay on
Mon 15/03/2010 - 17:38
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources. These educational resources include an exciting new exhibition in the three-dimensional virtual world Second Life.
Freely available to the public as well as the educational community, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a significant resource for studying the First World War and the literature it inspired.
| Project start date: 2007-04 | Project end date: 2009-03 |
Subject domains:
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Audio interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Image restoration | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Manual input and transcription | Data capture |
| Preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Prototyping | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
| User contributed content | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Virtual world modelling | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
Funding sources:
JISC
Content types created:
Software tools used:
- Audacity
- CONTENTdm
- Extensis Portfolio
- Mantis
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- MySQL
- Quicktime
- Ruby on rails
Source material used:
The collection brings together highly valued material (manuscripts of poems, letters, diaries) currently dispersed across the UK and the US, on the poets Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg, Vera Brittain, Roland Leighton, Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, David Jones and Edmund Blunden. Also included is audio, video and photographic content from collections at the Imperial War Museum, and a separtate collectin of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public (The Great War Archive).
Digital resource created:
Digitisation of over 7,000 items relating to some of the major British poets of the First World War as well as a wealth of contextual material from the Imperial War Museum and National Archives. In addition the project has launched The Great War Archive, over 6,500 items submitted by the general public originating from this historic event.
The multimedia online database of primary source material plus contextual information (images, audio and film material from the ImperialWarMuseum) is browseable and searchable, and freely available online. The archive also includes instructional material for students to train them in editorial and research skills using primary source material. Users are able to create their own annotated trails through the archive for others to use, and to submit new digital material to the Great War Archive.
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Stuart Lee, Kate Lindsay |
|---|---|
| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), PhD student(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
Tags: 2d Scanning and photography Accessibility analysis Audio interaction (asynchronous) Cataloguing and indexing Documentation Interface design moving image preservation Prototyping Resource sharing Server scripting sound Sound recording System quality assurance and code testing text Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Textual interaction (asynchronous) Usability analysis Version control Virtual world modelling Web browser scripting
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Kate Lindsay |
| Title | First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Record created | 2010-03-15 |
| Record updated | 2010-04-21 16:19 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2686 |
| Citation of record | Kate Lindsay: First World War Poetry Digital Archive. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2686> created: 2010-03-15, last updated 2010-04-21 16:19 |
