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| Project start date: 2007-04 | Project end date: 2009-03 |
The project catalogued, conserved and digitised an extensive selection of materials from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera housed in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. It represented an innovative joint enterprise between the Bodleian Library and ProQuest which resulted in the digitisation of more than 65,000 complete items (well in excess of 150,000 images) from the Collection, accompanied by detailed catalogue records. Over a two-year period, selected items within five high-demand research areas (Entertainment, Booktrade, Popular prints, Crimes, murders and executions, and Advertising) were digitised to the highest standards and made freely available to all teachers and researchers working in UK Higher and Further Education, and to the general population via terminals in UK public libraries.
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collaborative publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Content-based image retrieval | Data analysis |
| Curation | Strategy and project management |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Image enhancement | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Interface design | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Risk management | Strategy and project management |
| System quality assurance and code testing | Strategy and project management |
The material selected for conservation, cataloguing and digitisation comprises a wide array of different types of printed document, including posters and handbills for theatrical and non-theatrical entertainments, broadsides relating to murders and executions, book and journal prospectuses, popular topographical prints, and a wealth of different kinds of printed advertising material.
Online search facility at http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/home.do
Production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF files for web dissemination.
Tomkins, David [et al]. The Electronic Ephemera project: digitizing the John Johnson Collection. The Ephemerist: Journal of the Ephemera Society, No. 143, Winter 2008, pp. 12-19.
Lockyer, Louise. Capturing a Collection. Icon News: the magazine of the Institute of Conservation, Issue 21, March 2009, pp. 18-21
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Oxford |
| Other institutions involved: |
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| ProQuest |
| Principal staff member: | David Tomkins |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
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| This project description was developed as part of the ICT Guides project. |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | David Tomkins |
| Title | The John Johnson Collection: an Archive of Printed Ephemera |
| Record created | 2010-01-26 |
| Record updated | 2010-01-26 15:54 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2690 |
| Citation of record | David Tomkins: The John Johnson Collection: an Archive of Printed Ephemera. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2690> created: 2010-01-26, last updated 2010-01-26 15:54 |
