An overview of the digital resources available from the University of Oxford to support new directions in teaching the First World War. All are available under open licenses to allow download, reuse, adaptation and redistribution in education worldwide.
This presentation was given as a keynote at the Midlands History Forum, University of Birmingham on the 19th October 2013.
Beyond the Trenches - Digital Resources from the University of Oxford
1. Beyond the Trenches
Digital Resources
from the
University of Oxford
Kate Lindsay
IT Services (Academic)
University of Oxford
@KTDigital | @WW1C | @WW1Lit
3. I’m trying to stop them rehashing
the same old A’ Level essays and I
think drafts are a really good way
to do that…
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
To what extent do drafts of this poem challenge its
status as a 'work'?
Hope Wolf: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/pathways/path/w83yc7
21. • Mapping the Impact of
the Great War
• 18Ib Artillery Shells:
The Great War
Recycled
• Shellshock on Film
• Verdun 1916
• Arras: The Forgotten
Battlefield
• The Dying Kiss: Gender
and Intimacy in First
World War Literature
• Conflict Culture
Community Blog
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
22. Audio & Video Talks
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-war-new-perspectives
23. Visualisations
To re-present digital content
around World War I in
technologically innovative and
inventive ways to showcase
the full potential of using
open material to seed
academic debate and new
directions in teaching.
33. Can technology move us ‘beyond the
trenches’?
http://www.slideshare.net/WW1C
Kate Lindsay
Manager for Education Enhancement, Academic IT Services
Director, First World War Digital Collections
University of Oxford
katharine.lindsay@it.ox.ac.uk
@KTDigital / @WW1C / @WW1LIt
Hinweis der Redaktion
Can technology move us beyond the trenches?
This is the First World War Poetry Digital Archive website. We’ve c. 7,000 digital images of primary source material (manuscripts, letters, photos, service records) relating to the poetsA virtual Museum to house the digitised manuscripts of dispersed collections of WW1 poetry and related contextual material from some of the major writers of the war. Primary source material dispersed amongst libraries and archives in the UK, USA and Canada. Digitisation performed by holding institutions according to project benchmarks.No physical manifestation of this archive to compliment the online collectionBuilt up over a series of digitisation projects since 1996. Most recently funding received for Apr 07 - Mar 09 and Oct 08 - Sept 09 to expand and enhance the archive (JISC Digitisation Programme).You can see the search box where you can start exploring. And links to the Education Materials and to browse the collections of poetry.
Isaac Rosenberg – ask more ephemeral questions – the effect of experience of looking at these grubby manuscripts – do we feel like looking at these texts do we get a more immediate connections with the poems we are looking at. Emotional responses to seeing archiving texts.
Edmund Blunden
Alongside our work on the poetry archive we ran The Great War Archive from March to June 2008.This was a ‘Community Collection’ to harvest digital versions of items originating from the First World War held by the general publicIt was quite innovative – involving the public in all aspects of digitisation and cataloguingIdea of a community collection- Bridge the gap between non-institutional pro-amateurs and institutional collections and their online presence.Creation of digital resources by armateursDigitisation of family history and genealogy is very popular – harnessing this power of amateur digitisation- Democratising in nature – accept everything, not selective
Also tells of the impact on families and communities at home, during the War and in it’s wake.
Ministry of Culture & Ministry of Defence12 roadshows in Germany and 10 more coming46 Roadshows across France in NovemberYou need some money from a funding body if you need to run a campaign on a national scaleBut don’t need a lot of money to do it on a local scale, or even regional
Europeana 1914-1918’s collection includes everything from letters to medals, trench art and uniforms, and even a postcard from the young Adolf Hitler about his dental treatment in 1916. Fascinating as this is, but what use or meaning does such an eclectic 'collection' actually have? The first time (?) that a collection has been formed through pieces that the public have chosen to preserve, and wish to preserve for the futureGenuine raw material
The creation of a suite of learning and teaching resources that provide an international, cross-disciplinary reappraisal of WW1 using digital content which will subsequently be brought together and presented as OERs.Put the ‘World’ back into ‘World War’“Get out of the trenches”Battles ‘other than the Somme’Medical aspectsReligious aspectsBattlefield archaeology War and Memory Material cultureThe legacy of the War