Forced Migration Online (FMO)

Project start date: 2000-01
Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide. Designed for use by practitioners, policy makers, researchers, students or anyone interested in the field, FMO aims to give comprehensive information in an impartial environment and to promote increased awareness of human displacement issues to an international community of users.
Subject domains: 
Methods usedCategory
Resource sharingCommunication and collaboration
Cataloguing and indexingData structuring and enhancement
CollatingData analysis
IndexingData analysis
Content analysisData analysis
Sound recordingData capture
Sound editingData structuring and enhancement
Text recognitionData capture
Textual interaction (asynchronous)Communication and collaboration
Interface designData publishing and dissemination
Video editingData structuring and enhancement
soundContent types
moving imageContent types
textContent types
Funding sources: 
European Commission, Department for International Development, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Content types created: 
Moving Image, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used: 
Quicktime, Fedora, Windows Media Player
Source material used:  
Forced migration studies. There are no geographic and language limitations.
Digital resource created:  
Forced Migration Online consists of the following components: (1) a series of guides that introduce you to key forced migration themes and country situations; (2) a “Digital Library” that houses full-text documents (3) key forced migration journals in full-text; (4) a searchable “Web Catalogue” with descriptions of relevant web-based resources and links to those resources; (5) a directory with contact information for relevant organizations; and (6) a news feed with regularly updated headlines.
Data Formats created: 
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), CSS
Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery
Metadata standards employed: 
Dublin Core, qualified (DC)

Institutions affiliated with this project: 

UK HE institutions involved:
University of Oxford
UK HE institutions involved:
Refugees Studies Centre: University of Oxford

Project staff and expertise: 

Principal staff member:John Pilbeam, Sarah Taylor
Other staff:Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s)
External expertise:


Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record
Author(s) of recordSarah Taylor
TitleForced Migration Online (FMO)
Record created2010-04-19
Record updated2010-04-19 16:56
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2359
Citation of recordSarah Taylor: Forced Migration Online (FMO).
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created: 2010-04-19, last updated 2010-04-19 16:56