Europeana1914-1918.eu Alun Edwards & Ylva Berglund Prytz

27%

13%

60%

Public contributors uploaded 1,488 submissions to project website in 4 months

The project uploaded 729 submissions (about 3,500 digital objects) from 6 public participation days

Public contributions to The Great War Archive

60% of the submissions March- June 2008 were directly received through our website

Website: www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa

A Flickr group continues to collect, 3,325 images to date

Costs per item:

First World War Poetry Digital Archive cost £40.00 / item

The Great War Archive cost £3.50 / item

E.g. at the Norwich submissions day, Tues April 8th 2008

4 project staff, including a subject expert

3 local volunteers

About 700 images / recordings were made

From this the project catalogued and uploaded 169 digital objects (images and audio)

The Great War Archive Approx 60 contributors

brought in family keepsakes

Project Woruldhord or ‘world-hoard’

4,000 objects collected, mainly learning resources to teach early medieval English history & literature.

Roughly 70% online contributions, with no submission days.

Collection continues.

http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/

JISC rapid innovation projects: developing community content, 2010-

e.g. Welsh Voices of the Great War Online, using RunCoCo software and guidelines

2,500 objects collected. Roughly 80% from submissions days or direct contact (email / post); very little from the public online.

www.welshvoices.com/

www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/communitycontent.aspx

Welsh Voices of the Great War Online

E.g. at the Munich submissions day, Weds April 6th 2011

6 UK, 3 DNB, 1 PR staff

8 local staff & volunteers

About 4,400 images etc.

Catalogued and uploaded 210 digital objects

Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten Approx 100 contributors brought in

family keepsakes

Contributions

On July 14 the website had

460 contributors

27 countries74% Germany

22% female, 72% male

3%

17%

32%

42%

6%

18-24

25-44

45-59

60+

none

1,041 submissions (1,112)13,131 attached files

Approved July 9 (July 14):

172 submissions (166)2,312 attachments

Awaiting approval 9 July (14 July)

Munich Frankfurt Stuttgart Berlin online

approved 199 152 200 118 443

pending 7 8 9 15 147

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Where are they from?

Where are they from?

16%

17%

24%

30%

12%

Berlin FrankfurtMunichStuttgartonline

11%

14%

18%

18%

40% Attachments (9/7)

Submissions

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