Strandlines

Project start date: 2010-06 Project end date: 2011-04
Strandlines Digital Community is a King’s College London initiative that explores one of London’s most famous streets, the Strand, and its past and present communities. The project brings together local residents, workers and visitors by means of storytelling. Using digital technologies and techniques from life writing – a creative field concerned with personal life stories – it seeks to foster a more active sense of community in the Strand area.
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Methods usedCategory
2d Scanning and photographyData capture
Accessibility analysisStrategy and project management
Resource sharingCommunication and collaboration
Moving image captureData capture
Sound recordingData capture
DocumentationStrategy and project management
Human factors analysisStrategy and project management
Textual interaction (asynchronous)Communication and collaboration
Usability analysisStrategy and project management
General website developmentData publishing and dissemination
General project managementStrategy and project management
Use of existing digital dataData capture
Funding sources: 
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Content types created: 
Moving Image, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used: 
Audacity, Drupal
Source material used:  
Archival resources; audio recordings (interviews); film; photos; written stories from external communities
Digital resource created:  
Strandlines Digital Community website (which includes digitized images, stories, audio recordings and films)
Access to digital resource:  
Open Access
Data Formats created: 
JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Metadata standards employed: 
Other

Institutions affiliated with this project: 

UK HE institutions involved:
King's College London
UK HE institutions involved:
Age Concern Westminster
Westminster City Archives


Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record
Author(s) of recordHope Wolf
TitleStrandlines
Record created2010-10-25
Record updated2010-10-25 15:43
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/4200
Citation of recordHope Wolf: Strandlines.
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created: 2010-10-25, last updated 2010-10-25 15:43