Digitisation, Ingest and Aggregation to Europeana 1914-1918

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End to End ProcessTesting and Using BL systems for the first time

Challenging as systems were being developed as the project was evolving (BL’s deadlines didn’t meet Europeana’s deadlines)

Two publishing streamsManuscript material (IAMS)c. 7,500 items

Printed material (ALEPH)c. 2,000 items

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Sums of digitised items

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500,000 425,000 464,906 464,801

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digitisation achieved

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Types of objects by type of material

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12,075 1,672

84,351

159,906

173,309

8,079 1,197

printed bookssongbooks and music sheetpublicistic materialmanuscript materialpicture materialmiscellaneous materialmaps

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39%

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Digitisation efforts of the project partners

9100%

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104%209%

127%352%

105%105%

121%112%

125%146%

94%231.168 items

80.036 items2.035 items

9.827 items8.660 items14.749 items3.892 items

5.587 items53.918 items47.792 items

7.137 items

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Final Report

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Dissemination eventsDissemination Event in London Europeana 1914-1918 Reception, Thursday 12 December 2013

First World War Writers’ Masterclass, Monday 24 February 2014

The First World War: The DebateMon 17 Feb 2014

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Wikipedia Articles

Vimeo Channelhttp://vimeo.com/ec1418

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Girdwood Collection: 118, 979 views

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http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/exhibits/show/europeana-1914-1918-en

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BL Teams involvedCuratorial teams (from 15 collections) Technical Architecture teams

Preservation & Conservation teams Digital Library System Dev teams

Digiflo / Integrated Digitisation teams Digital Library System Support teams

Imaging studios (North and South) Digital Processing teams

IP & Licensing team ILS Teams

Cataloguing teams PRIMO teams

Metadata Systems teams Digital Scholarship

Thank you!!!

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