Jonathan Purday Senior Communications Advisor Oxford, February 2012 Europeana 1914-1918

Jonathan PurdaySenior Communications Advisor

Oxford, February 2012

Europeana 1914-1918

Europeana 1914 -1918

Built on the RunCoCo platform devised by Oxford for the Great War Archive

1914-1918 family history roadshows – events at which we catalogued and digitised stories, papers and memorabilia

Provided a website to which people could upload their own material

Phase 1: 2011 Germany

9 Roadshow events across Germany

600 people came to the roadshows; 350

contributed material

560 people contributed through the website

26,000 images and scans entered Europeana

40% of these were uploaded direct to site

Most of the material was unpublished: letters,

diaries, drawings, photographs, postcards

Phase 2: Spring 2012

Luxembourg, 6 March

Preston, UK, 10 March

Dublin, Ireland, 21 March

Nova Goriza, Slovenia, 28 March

Sønderborg Castle, Denmark, 24 April

Luxembourg 6 March 2012

80 contributors, 2,000 scans

Preston 10 March 2012

112 contributors

220 visitors

2,300 scans

Dublin 21March 2012

300 contributors

600 visitors

???? scans

‘Nobody else has ever read these and nobody will want them when I’ve gone’

‘WW1 is a forgotten story here – or nobody wanted to hear it’

‘It’s falling to pieces;it won’t last much longer’

‘I think I’m the last one who knows who they were’

‘I’ve never used the Internet - but my nephew can show me’

‘I want to share their story. Out of respect, I suppose’

Phase 3: Hackathons, April-June 2012

Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Ireland

Using the API to develop prototype apps

1914-1918 data is openly licenced; content is

CC-BY-SA

Competition to be announced by

Commissioner for Digital Agenda on 9 May

Prize is the opportunity to develop the

prototype app to production standard

Phase 4:

Collaboration with Europeana Collections 1914-1918 and European Film Gateway 1914-1918 on online exhibitions and education resources

Building a European partnership of local libraries and museums as centres of community history

Making our API available to distribute our WW1 data widely

More roadshows and language versions of the site

• Belgium, Autumn 2012

• Italy, Spring 2013

• France

• Switzerland

• Austria

• Portugal

• Poland

• Russia... Turkey... ?

Namejonathan.purday@bl.uk

Thank you