Teachers engage with the Digital Archive to create educational materials during one of the project workshops

RunCoCo will be speaking at ‘Rare but not Old’: Curating Modern Special Collections, the annual conference of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group, 8-9 September 2010 at Lancaster University. We will be speaking about Using the community (real and virtual) to enrich The First World War Poetry Digital Archive.

The abstract:

To introduce this freely-available, online archive of the manuscripts of many of the British poets from the First World War. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive was created by the University of Oxford English Faculty and the Learning Technologies Group of OUCS (the University computing services), with funding from JISC:

• a brief tour of the manuscripts and the website features and The Great War Archive community collection, including the implications of using third-party sites like Flickr;
• discussion of the enrichment of the education materials based on the archive by a community of teachers;
• a small community’s work to visualise such a major online research and teaching resource in a 3-d virtual world (Second Life).

Virtual Simulation in Second Life