transforming irish family history research: the nli's catholic parish register digitisation...
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Transforming Irish family history research: the NLI’s Catholic Parish Register digitisation project
Ciara Kerrigan
from this… …to this…
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Why these records?
- Only record of existence of most Irish people in 18th and 19th centuries
- Provide evidence of direct links between generations (via baptism records) and between families (via marriage records)
- Single most used collection in NLI (27,000 people in 2014)
- Only available onsite on microfilm
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Challenges
- Small NLI team/budget- Varying quality of images- No index/transcriptions- Technology and users- Environment
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The plan!
- Consultation/brainstorming- Guiding principle- Use of NLI’s LMS to manage
data- Enhancements to be
reusable- Parish map
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Methodology
- Data preparation- Ingest images- Develop microsite –
interface/viewer/maps- Visuals – “look and feel”- Testing
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Impact
- 7.75m page views- 460,000 unique users- 1.3m sessions- 9 mins=average length of
session- 59% of users overseas- FMP/Ancestry index
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