Forced Migration Online (FMO)
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Grant Holder:
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.
Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery
| Project start date: 2000-01 |
Subject domains:
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Sound editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text recognition | Data capture |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Video editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| sound | Content types |
| moving image | Content types |
| text | Content 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
Metadata standards employed:
Dublin Core, qualified (DC)
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Oxford |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Refugees Studies Centre: University of Oxford |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | John Pilbeam, Sarah Taylor |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s) |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Sarah Taylor |
| Title | Forced Migration Online (FMO) |
| Record created | 2010-04-19 |
| Record updated | 2010-04-19 16:56 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2359 |
| Citation of record | Sarah Taylor: Forced Migration Online (FMO). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2359> created: 2010-04-19, last updated 2010-04-19 16:56 |