The first academic steering group convened on 16th January. This proved wide ranging, covering items such as the number, location and theme of the academic focus groups and their underlying methodology; draft content of the survey of existing teaching resouces and focus; and overlap with the work of the Imperial War Museum and with other projects such as CENDARI. The group was reminded of the importance of identifying, sooner rather than later, 'ready to go' digital resources for the aggregation designs planned by JISC.
The group heard that positive feedback had already been received from academics eager to participate in the focus groups. A roundtable discussion identified areas of research not mentioned in the project plan, including battlefield geography and archaeology, and women's history. The group agreed that the design of any controlled vocabulary will be important in encouraging users to investigate aspects of the war that are often neglected in the popular imagination, such as naval history, by pushing these subjects 'up the ranking'.
Friday, 20 January 2012
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
JISC World War One Commemoration Research Programme
This blog will describe the research project that forms stage one of a four stage programme directed and funded by JISC to mark the centenary of the outbreak of World War One in 2014. For further information on the broader JISC programme visit: http://jiscww1.jiscinvolve.org/wp/jisc-ww1-discovery-programme/jisc-ww1-discovery-programme-phases/
The project team from King's College London is led by Patricia Methven and Geoff Browell of Archives and Information Management and Professor William Philpott of the Department of War Studies. Significant academic input and advice will be sought from experts in the history of World War One from other departments at King's College, and from across the UK and internationally.
The project runs from January until March 2012. It aims to:
Research key aspects of future World War One (WW1) digital content development in readiness for the centenary commemoration of the conflict from 2014 onwards. This research is intended to provide understanding in 3 key areas:
The project team from King's College London is led by Patricia Methven and Geoff Browell of Archives and Information Management and Professor William Philpott of the Department of War Studies. Significant academic input and advice will be sought from experts in the history of World War One from other departments at King's College, and from across the UK and internationally.
The project runs from January until March 2012. It aims to:
Research key aspects of future World War One (WW1) digital content development in readiness for the centenary commemoration of the conflict from 2014 onwards. This research is intended to provide understanding in 3 key areas:
- WW1 content and collections available to education in analogue and digital form;
- Teaching, learning and research priorities and requirements of higher and further education in terms of the study of WW1 including a scoping of potential digital users and key stakeholder groups
- Synthesis of WW1 digital content availability and educational requirement(s), resulting in ‘priority’ recommendations of WW1 digital content development.
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