Imagine IF ...Dr Stuart D LeeReader E-learning/Digital LibrariesUniversity of Oxford

© All images taken from Oxford’s Great War Archive or FWWPA, and Europeana so no worries about copyright ... but I need to add

copyright statements ... I will do ... I promise

What would you like?

Global view

Multi-theatre ops

Naval history

Medical material

Colonial experience

Legacy

Theme around which to address other issues/barriers

Value for Money

Impact

Openness

Digital literacy

Engagement

National identity

Social inclusion

Discovery

Know what is available

‘Living’ catalogue of resources

Easy searching/retrieval

Depth of collections

Printed documents - training material, etc

Maps, statistics, Govt docs

Advice on APIs

Advice on IPR

What would you like?

Every piece of known content relating to WW1 in the world available digitally for free, fully searchable, fully cross-linked, fully reusable without any rights restrictions

Every piece of unknown content relating to WW1 in the world available digitally for free, fully searchable, fully cross-linked, fully reusable without any rights restrictions

What would you like?

Every ... known ... unknown ... content ... global ... freely reusable ... discoverable

Supported by tools/apparatus presented for me and my needs

Content

Global

Rights

Charging

Technology

Every

Pay per-search

WHY?

Bridging divides

Make sense out of the incomprehensible

DERIVE MEANING FOR NOW

citizenship

A new ‘social memory’?

NationAL IDENTITY

Declare our intentmake all material available for future generations to use free of charge, remove any barriers we can for its dissemination and reuse

Triple Alliance

Content - Release existing, create new, target gaps, assist smaller heritage units, UGC

Discover & Disseminate - open standards, open licences, facilitate linking, cross-searching

Engagement - open educational resources, online tools and social media events, real-life events

Are we missing anything? Key themes or messages?

How can we help others to contribute (smaller heritage centres and the public)?

How will we engage all sectors in this, and make it useful for them?

Yes: official documents, printed ephemera, medical material (beyond shell-

shock), naval material, etcShared services and

infrastructure, DIY kits/best practice, engagement/UGC

activities

Not just history researchers

Sustainable

A PlanA collective declaration - shared terminology/authority list, open standards/data, and open rights- commitment to support and promote each others’ projects/events

Shared timetable of events (Culture24? BBC History?)

Shared list of projects (IWM Centenary Programme?)

Shared/federated “catalogue(s)” of content, learning resources - MIMAS?

One stop place for UGC (Europeana, IWM, BBC, Oxford?)

National/EU centres archive material (multiple archives?)

Portal

QuestionsDoes the JISC White Paper have any value for other organisations?

What could or should funders do?

How can projects not become short-lived silos?

What are the gaps in planned WW1 content provision?

Which audiences need further opportunities for engagement? How can this be delivered?

Are there unique examples of innovation which can be shared between organisations?

How could we engage ‘difficult to reach’ international partners (African states, India, Pakistan etc)?