'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-conflict Northern Ireland

Project start date: 2006-04

Project end date: 2009-03

This section within the CAIN Web site (cain.ulster.ac.uk) contains an extensive on-line digital Archive of source materials and information on the topics of victims, survivors and commemoration in Northern Ireland. Information contained in the Archive helps to document the process by which society in Northern Ireland has so far addressed these complex issues and will be of interest not only to an academic audience but also to policy makers, non-governmental organisations, community leaders and others. Part of the work involved seeking permission to gather and compile information and material that was held by a large number of organisations and individuals. Some of this information was only available in paper format and the researchers converted this into a digital format. In addition to existing information the project also generated new material. For example, the team compiled a searchable database of information and photographs on the physical monuments to the victims of the conflict. A further aim of the project was to secure the long-term preservation of the digital material. The University of Ulster is committed to ensuring that all the contents of the CAIN site remain available to users of the site into the long-term. In addition the CAIN site was selected to participate in the UK Web Archive (webarchive.org.uk) and as such the contents of the site are regularly archived. Production of compressed JPEG files from RAW image files for Web dissemination.