{"id":2166,"date":"2016-11-11T16:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T10:52:53","slug":"using-online-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.it.ox.ac.uk\/runcoco\/2016\/11\/11\/using-online-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Using online resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running a Community Collection usually means that material is collected in digital form to be use in some way. The material may form part of an archive, be used for research, be turned into educational material or much more. To mark the Remembrance season, this page lists some examples of how material that we have collected through our First World War projects is being used. Some examples of related resources are also included. Explore the links and get inspired to do something with digital material today.<\/p>\n<h2>Online archives<\/h2>\n<p>Explore the archives or share your own material.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Great War Archive<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/gwa\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/gwa\/<\/a>).<br \/>\nOur first community collection (closed for new additions). An online archive with material contributed by members of the public. Part of <strong>First World War Poetry Digital Archive<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/<\/a>) which contains material by and about the war poets, including manuscripts, letters, pictures and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Europeana 1914-1918<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/europeana1914-1918.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/europeana1914-1918.eu\/<\/a>).<br \/>\nA very large international online archive containing stories and objects shared by the public, material from archives and libraries and links to additional resources.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oxford at War<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordatwar.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.oxfordatwar.uk\/<\/a>).<br \/>\nA new and growing collection of material related to Oxford during the period of the First World War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Look for information about someone<\/h3>\n<p>If you are sharing a personal or family story through a community collection, you may also be interested in seeing what information about that person already exists online. You may also be able to\u00a0 add your additional information to expand what is already available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Commonwealth War Graves Commission (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-war-dead.aspx\">http:\/\/www.cwgc.org\/find-war-dead.aspx<\/a>)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Find war dead. Search by name, date, regiment and more. Find information about person, their service number and where they are buried. \u00a0Sometimes additional information is\u00a0available.<br \/>\n&#8211; Enter information (only one term is needed) and press \u2018Search\u2019<br \/>\n&#8211; Explore the result. You can sort the table by clicking on, for example, \u2018Date of death\u2019 or \u2018Regiment\/service\u2019.<br \/>\n&#8211; Click on the name to see more details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lives of the First World War (<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/livesofthefirstworldwar.org\">https:\/\/livesofthefirstworldwar.org)<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Find people who were involved in the war, add more information.<br \/>\n&#8211; Type in name and service no (if known. Can be found through Commonwealth War Graves Commission for those who died)<br \/>\n&#8211; See what is available (more information about how to use the site, add material and more can be found on the site)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oxford Roll of Services<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/oxforduniversity00univuoft\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/oxforduniversity00univuoft)<\/a><br \/>\nListing all University members who served.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wikipedia<br \/>\n<\/strong>A lot of information about people, places and events<strong>. <\/strong>See, for example:<br \/>\n&#8211; An image gallery of noteworthy people from Southern England who fought in World War I. Use the mouse wheel to move through the gallery. Clicking on some images will show a larger version. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jxt4yt9\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jxt4yt9<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; A list of noteworthy people, born in Oxfordshire or adjacent counties, who took part in World War I but for whom there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a (freely reusable) photograph. Click the links on the right to read Wikipedia biographies of each solider. <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/j78cwnm\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/j78cwnm<\/a>. If you know of a photograph of any of these people, please email <a href=\"mailto:martin.poulter@bodleian.ox.ac.uk\">martin.poulter@bodleian.ox.ac.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Contribute to research<\/h3>\n<p>Having large archives of material is very useful for researchers and others interested in a topic. The material can be made more easily accessible, however, with the help of human input. A number of projects ask people to, for example, transcribe hand-written documents to make it easier to find relevant passages and identify key information. Examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Europeana Transcribe: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcribathon.eu\">www.transcribathon.eu<\/a><br \/>\nView images from the Europeana archive and type in the text that you can see. Choose the language and type of document that you want to see.<\/li>\n<li>Measuring the ANZACs: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.measuringtheanzacs.org\/\">https:\/\/www.measuringtheanzacs.org\/<br \/>\n<\/a>Transcribe first-hand accounts of New Zealanders from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps circa World War I.<\/li>\n<li>Operation War Diary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.operationwardiary.org\/\">https:\/\/www.operationwardiary.org\/<br \/>\n<\/a>Annotate and transcribe war diaries from the First World War<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Educational resources<\/h2>\n<p>Primary resources can be a very powerful resource for learning and teaching. Here are some examples of online educational resources that draw on material from community collections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First World War Poetry Digital Archive<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/\">http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/tutorials<\/a>)<br \/>\nTutorials, films and timelines to help you learn more about First World War poetry and related topics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>World War One Centenary: Continuations and beginnings<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/\">http:\/\/ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/<\/a>)<br \/>\nShort articles, audio and video recordings and an extensive Resource Library providing links to freely available, open resources from across the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Online exhibitions<\/h2>\n<p>Here are a few examples how material form an archive (Europeana 1914-1918) has been used to create an online exhibition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Untold Stories of the First World War<\/strong>. Photos, letters and other memorabilia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/exhibitions.europeana.eu\/exhibits\/show\/europeana-1914-1918-en\">http:\/\/exhibitions.europeana.eu\/exhibits\/show\/europeana-1914-1918-en<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Men on the Memorial \u00a0<\/strong>(The stories of Skelsmergh&#8217;s First World War dead) \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/exhibit\/the-men-on-the-memorial\/fgIiWlT_fBCDJA?hl=en-GB\">https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/exhibit\/the-men-on-the-memorial\/fgIiWlT_fBCDJA?hl=en-GB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>We Know this War by Heart. Portugal and the Great War<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/exhibit\/we-know-this-war-by-heart\/gQyoPck7\">https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/exhibit\/we-know-this-war-by-heart\/gQyoPck7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cTo my Peoples!\u201d An Austro-Hungarian view on the War.\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/exhibit\/to-my-peoples\/gQyspHgL?hl=en-GB\">https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/exhibit\/to-my-peoples\/gQyspHgL?hl=en-GB<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Seven Men, One leg.<\/strong>\u00a0The reintegration of soldiers after World War I.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/portal\/en\/exhibitions\/seven-men-one-leg#ve-anchor-intro_13707-js\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/portal\/en\/exhibitions\/seven-men-one-leg#ve-anchor-intro_13707-js<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"ve-title\"><strong>Sausages and Cigars for Christmas.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ve-subtitle\">Max Kranz and the men from Hatzenport in World War One.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/portal\/en\/exhibitions\/sausages-and-cigars-for-christmas#ve-anchor-intro_4457-js\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/portal\/en\/exhibitions\/sausages-and-cigars-for-christmas#ve-anchor-intro_4457-js<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Men on the Memorial.<\/strong> The stories of Skelsmergh&#8217;s First World War dead.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/beta\/exhibit\/the-men-on-the-memorial\/fgIiWlT_fBCDJA?hl=en-GB\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/beta\/exhibit\/the-men-on-the-memorial\/fgIiWlT_fBCDJA?hl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>We Know this War by Heart.<\/strong> Portugal and the Great War.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/beta\/exhibit\/we-know-this-war-by-heart\/gQyoPck7\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/beta\/exhibit\/we-know-this-war-by-heart\/gQyoPck7<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Films and podcasts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Videos and podcasts from Oxford<\/strong> relating to the First World War. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/world-war-1\/videos-and-podcasts\">http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/world-war-1\/videos-and-podcasts<\/a>. Some examples:\n<ul>\n<li>Bringing WW1 History into the Present with Twitter.\u00a0 http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/bringing-ww1-history-present-twitte<br \/>\nMechthild Herzog discusses how Twitter can be harnessed to engage large audiences with WW1 history in a range of creative ways.<\/li>\n<li>Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. Margaret MacMillan, the Warden of St Antony&#8217;s College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debate. <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/choice-or-accident-outbreak-first-world-war\">http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/choice-or-accident-outbreak-first-world-war<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East Drawing on European and Middle Eastern sources, historian Eugene Rogan provides an overview of the Great War in the Middle East from both sides of the trenches. <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/ottoman-front-first-world-war-middle-east\">http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/ottoman-front-first-world-war-middle-east<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Oriel and the Great War<br \/>\nThis lecture on Oriel College&#8217;s involvement in WW1 was given by Dr John Stevenson (former College Lecturer in History at Oriel and former Fellow at Worcester College)\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/oriel-and-great-war\">http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/oriel-and-great-war<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Furniture Behind the Wire (audio)<br \/>\nAn examination of the material culture and social history of the German internees held on the Isle of Man, who made furniture designed by CR Mackintosh for the Northampton home of the Bassett-Lowke family between 1916 and 1919. <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/furniture-behind-wire\">http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/furniture-behind-wire<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Richard Holmes interview <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/richard-holmes-interview\">http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/richard-holmes-interview<\/a><br \/>\nIn this interview, the well-known military historian Brigadier Richard Holmes discusses his work on WW1, remembrance, his views on WW1 poetry, and how those experiences relate to the British Army currently serving in Iraq<\/li>\n<li>World War One Walking Tour of Oxford<br \/>\nListen to a recording online or download to use on your device: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/moseley\/events\/underconstruction-theatres-world-war-one-walking-tour-of-oxford\/\">http:\/\/www.mhs.ox.ac.uk\/moseley\/events\/underconstruction-theatres-world-war-one-walking-tour-of-oxford\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>First World War: New Perspectives.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/series\/first-world-war-new-perspectives\">http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/series\/first-world-war-new-perspectives<br \/>\n<\/a>A series of short introductory talks from experts in the field presenting new perspectives on the First World War. Produced by the University of Oxford.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First World War Poetry Digital Archive<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/series\/first-world-war-poetry-digital-archive\">http:\/\/podcasts.ox.ac.uk\/series\/first-world-war-poetry-digital-archive<br \/>\n<\/a>Lectures and talks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Films<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Children of the Great War<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/D2VlEZE4bx8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/D2VlEZE4bx8<br \/>\n<\/a>A unique split screen film installation focusing on 13 of the participants who shared their family history from The Great War. The installation toured galleries, museums, and community centres, after its premiere at BFI Southbank. Created by AgeExchange<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cMeeting in No Man\u2019s Land\u201d<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZtOvjVihEfA\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZtOvjVihEfA<br \/>\n<\/a>Feature-length film created by AgeExchange as part of their project where German and British elders exchange family histories from The First World War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Films from the period of the First World War<\/h4>\n<p>The European Film Gateway has digitised a large collection of films and newsreels from the period of the War. To see all the material, explore the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeanfilmgateway.eu\/1914\" target=\"_blank\">EFG 1914 project site<\/a>. Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Last Volunteer<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeanfilmgateway.eu\/detail\/Last%20Volunteer,%20The\/dk::d5f02a8a67f16a01835e21756bffb59f\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.europeanfilmgateway.eu\/detail\/Last%20Volunteer,%20The\/dk::d5f02a8a67f16a01835e21756bffb59f\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n1914 feature film about love and tragic death.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hinter der Westfront (1917)\u00a0<\/strong> \/ <em>Behind the Western Front<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmportal.de\/video\/hinter-der-westfront?bt=europeanaapi\">http:\/\/www.filmportal.de\/video\/hinter-der-westfront?bt=europeanaapi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Les Annales de la guerre &#8211; 92 (1918) \/\u00a0<\/strong><em>The War Annals<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeanfilmgateway.eu\/detail\/Les%20Annales%20de%20la%20guerre%20-%2092\/crb::9f6fb35cdcb3ffdb86c0b4171e16baae\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.europeanfilmgateway.eu\/detail\/Les%20Annales%20de%20la%20guerre%20-%2092\/crb::9f6fb35cdcb3ffdb86c0b4171e16baae<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/210443147\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/vimeo.com\/210443147<\/a>\u00a0(on Vimeo)<em><br \/>\n<\/em>French newsreel including images of the captured fort of Kawak of Constantinople (Istanbul) and the French troops parading for the first time in the German cities of Aachen, Wiesbaden and Mainz.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Die Schlacht zwischen Aisne und Marne (1918)<\/strong> \/ <em>The battle between Aisne and Marne<\/em> (1918) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmportal.de\/video\/die-schlacht-zwischen-aisne-und-marne?bt=europeanaapi\">http:\/\/www.filmportal.de\/video\/die-schlacht-zwischen-aisne-und-marne?bt=europeanaapi<\/a>\u00a0.<br \/>\nHow the war was seen on the German side. Among the content:<br \/>\n<em> &#8211; Test drive with captured English tanks<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8211; German tanks roll to the front<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8211; Br\u00e4nde in Soissons nach franz\u00f6sischem Artilleriebeschu\u00df \/Fires in Soissons after French artillery barrage<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8211; The destroyed Paissy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running a Community Collection usually means that material is collected in digital form to be use in some way. The material may form part of an archive, be used for research, be turned into educational material or much more. 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