how to run a community collection online
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Presentació d'Alun Edwards (University of Oxford) a les jornades "Biblioteques patrimonials: conservant el futur, construint el passat" organitzades per la Biblioteca de l’Ateneu Barcelonès el 24 de novembre de 2010TRANSCRIPT
How to run a community collection
onlineAlun Edwards, University of Oxford:
RunCoCo
Matchbox submitted to The Great War Archive
This item is from The Great War Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa); © MAUREEN ROGERS
George Cavan was a Company Sergeant Major in the Glasgow Highlanders
He lived with his family, his wife Jean and 3 daughters, in the Drill Hall in Carluke, Scotland.
While away at training camp the orders came through to dispatch to France. The train he was on with his troops went through his home station but did not stop there
Website: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
George threw out onto the platform a matchbox containing a note to his family
On one side: the name of his wife and on the other: his message
Someone picked up the matchbox and delivered it to the family
This item is from The Great War Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa); © MAUREEN ROGERS
George Cavan was killed just a few days after arriving at the front in France on the 13th April, 1918. He lies in an unmarked grave but is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Website: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
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Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
• Draft Versions of the text
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There is a biography for each poet• an explanation of the collections
• links to specific poems
• or other material like letters or photos
Search results• See versions of texts
• Text as included in letters etc.
• Full text as published
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View photo or metadata• Zoomify, download
• Share in social media
• AND add to favourites
Add to favourites• Compare favourites
Compare versions of texts on screen, side-by-side
• Imagine that in the context of a reading room!
To Jessie Pope etc. “To a certain Poetess”
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Image from The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); © Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum / The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate
Isaac Rosenberg, “Daughter's of War”
• Trench poems, written on whatever scraps of paper he could find
• The torn and mud-stained manuscript reveals the conditions of the soldier’s service
Videos on YouTube, incl. show-reel www.youtube.com/user/ww1lit
The Great War Archive
In 2008 the University of Oxford used the general public to build on a freely-available, online archive of the manuscripts of many of the British poets from the First World War
They contributed to a community collection
Website: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
Funded by JISC (for 4 months only), so now we use Flickr to receive contributions.
2008: Simple online submissions process
Contributors asked to agree to basic terms & conditions of the license
Contributors enter basic metadata
Offered a large open ‘notes’ field for further information or anecdotes
An admin system allowed reviewers to: check items for their validity; correct or add to the metadata; flag items of particular interest/value
Website: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
Offer on the spot digitisation and advice
A ‘Submissions Day Pack’ guided libraries etc. to run their own day
2008: The project collaborated with organisations
‘Roadshows’/submissions days
EMMA
Website: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
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Photo submitted by the nephew of the William Gaunt, (seated here)Nothing particularly unusual in this photo – which had been on the mantle-piece in William’s widow’s house?
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Live website
Public interface toThe Great War Archive, with options for download, ‘zoomify’ etc
Live website
An admin system for reviewers
To check items for their validity.
To correct or add to the metadata
To flag items of particular interest / value
RSS
Wiki
Mindmaps
Blogs
Getting Your Message OutThere
Our projects have used all of these “Web 2.0”, third-party services, to engage with communities and work with user-generated content
Blogging
www.flickr.com/groups/greatwararchive/
The Great War Archive Exit Strategy
Although the submission process ended in June 2008 the project has used Flickr to allow further items to be contributed.
We could assess potential for user tagging / comments.
Flickr: No formal submission/metadata
A future project might enhance metadata?
Comments can be facile or funny and can sometimes be incredibly informative
1917-reservists called up and prepared1917-временно мобилизирани Българи
Flickr image from The Great War Archive Flickr Group by allilinin www.flickr.com/photos/allilinin/63081204/
Public contributors uploaded 3,500 digital objects to website in 4 months
The project uploaded 600 items (about 3,000 digital objects) from 5 submissions days
Public contributions to The Great War Archive
Over 6,500 items collected March-June 2008, 60% submitted by the public direct through our website
Website: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
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A Flickr group continues to collect items
Costs per item:
First World War Poetry Digital Archive cost £40.00 / item
The Great War Archive cost £3.50 / item
http://glamwiki.org
YouTube, iTunesU, Flickr and Wikimedia Commons etc.
www.flickr.com/groups/greatwararchive/
Share culture?Share your knowledge, engage with the audience with comments and conversation
Share your collections use a Creative Commons
licence
e.g. Old Weather
Part of the Citizen Science Alliance which includes a number of
Zooniverse projects
such as Galaxy Zoo, Moon Zoo, Solar Storm Watch
These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and the stories of the people on board.
www.oldweather.org/
Help scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I
Crowdsource?JISC rapid innovation projects: developing community content, 2010
For Culturenet Cymru (National Library of Wales) “heritage is the hook” for digital inclusion
The People’s Collection, and other initiatives in Wales like:
“E-include”?
www.culturenetcymru.com/
“Kontaktanzeigen”
“Mirth in Wartime (c.1918)”, Flickr image from The Great War Archive Flickr Group by postaletrice www.flickr.com/photos/postaletrice/4382411053/
Treue Humor
Alkohol-und-Tabakkonsum
Spontaneität
Alles was Spaß
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Sportlich unternehmungslustig
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Ehrlichkeit
Europeana, the DNB and the University of Oxford are looking for partners to help run The Great War Archive in Germany and beyond...
“Wir suchen...”
• The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, & The Great War Archive & and links to Frideswide on Second Life, and the Flickr photo pool www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
• YouTube WW1Lit channel www.youtube.com/user/ww1lit
• If You Build It, They Will Scan: Oxford University’s Exploration of Community Collections, Dr Stuart Lee and Kate Lindsay. EDUCAUSE Quarterly Vol 32 Number 2, 2009 www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EQVolume322009/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/174539 The strategies and processes behind The Great War Archive are explained in detail. E.g. comparison of the costs per item: £40.00/item Poetry Digital Archive £ 3.50/item The Great War Archive
• RunCoCo: How to run a community collection online, JISC-funded project based at the University of Oxford. http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Offering training, support, networking. fostering an online community of interest. Disseminating key software tools, methodologies, and work-flows developed under The Great War Archive and beyond. Developing an open source system (called CoCoCo) to collect digital objects.
Further reading 1
• Old Weather, www.oldweather.org/ One of the JISC-funded rapid innovation projects: developing community content, 2010 - Part of the Citizen Science Alliance which includes a number of Zooniverse projects such as Galaxy Zoo, Moon Zoo, Solar Storm Watch. “These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes. Historians will use your work to track past ship movements and the stories of the people on board.”
• Digitisation, curation & two-way engagement, Chris Batt Consulting www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2009/digicurationfinalreport.aspx The Great War Archive showed how community collections can work and bring great benefits, most notably reduced costs... This is possibly a model we should be pursuing in the future alongside traditional high-quality digitisation... Moreover, that academia should try to engage the public in its research and recognise that the public not only may hold material, but also is willing to engage in these activities. On the subject of Two-way Engagement: “…knowledge co-creation and exchange rather than simple knowledge transfer; a dialogue which enriches knowledge for mutual benefit” and “...community engagement is more than citizen participation… it would be questionable to describe it as community engagement, unless there have been some fully open opportunities for... Collective involvement in the agenda under discussion.”
• Capturing the power of the crowd and the challenges of community collections, JISC 2010 www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2010/communitycollections.aspx ‘Crowdsourcing’ is when a problem is broadcast to a wide audience or community that could solve the problem collectively. Mundane tasks could be outsourced to a motivated and enthusiastic community of experts. The community can assess the answers and provide the quality assurance. Refers to e.g. East London Lives 2012, GalaxyZoo and RunCoCo.
• The Participatory Museum, Nina Simon www.participatorymuseum.org/ e.g. The stages of social participation online
Further reading 2
RunCoCo: How to run a community collection online Contact
RunCoCo
Alun Edwards
OUCS
University of Oxford
http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk RunCoCo offering training, support, networking, e.g.
Two-way engagement on Twitter: @runcoco
Sharing links to other relevant resources and exemplar crowdsourcing initiatives using Delicious
Maintaining momentum with the blog Disseminating key software tools,
methodologies, and work-flows developed under The Great War Archive and beyond. Developing an open source system (called CoCoCo) to collect digital objects
These items are from The Great War Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit); ©
Any questions?