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'.
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