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Creating and Targeting Educational Resources for Digitisation Projects. The Freeze Frame Project. The Project. JISC funded digitisation project Two years Archival & outreach End product: free to use website. Polar images from 1845-1982, Arctic and Antarctic 20,000 negatives scanned
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Creating and Targeting Educational Resources for Digitisation Projects The Freeze Frame Project
The Project • JISC funded digitisation project • Two years • Archival & outreach • End product: free to use website
Polar images from 1845-1982, Arctic and Antarctic 20,000 negatives scanned Scanned to 400dpi (tiffs) Adjusted with Photoshop, raw archived Available free to use at 150 dpi (JPEG), for educational purposes The Resource
Searching • Comprehensive search options • Simple search: images only, text only and image and text • Advances search: based on selection options • Tag cloud: key words by which images catalogued
Facilitating Access • Freeze Frame motto: Conserve, Digitise, Explore • Conserve negatives via digitisation • Explore images via educational packages • Attract new users
Educational Packages • Target audience • Who does the collection lend to? • What are people interested in? • What are the requirements of the funding body? • Is there a gap in the market?
Pitching an Education Resource • What will the target audience use it for? • Situate themselves • Expand knowledge • Information to facilitate learning • Does it need to fit into a wider curriculum? • Must always refer back to the resource itself
Thematic Packages • Situational packages: expedition summaries, leader biographies, history of photography • Thematic Packages: • Survival in Extreme Environments: clothing, nutrition, transport, shelter • Changing Britain • Northern Peoples • Climatic Change
Website • Designed and produced by CARET • Word Press to populate • Idiot proof! • Layouts on screen different to those on paper • Manoeuvrability central
Other User Groups • Teachers and educational groups • Cross-curriculum • Non-curriculum specific • Extension activity • Reappropriation: external and internal
Feedback • Took suggestions to steering committee • Trialled by a university group • Positive feedback • Suggestions for extension
Launching March 2009: www.freezeframe.ac.uk