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Electronic Ephemera

Electronic Ephemera. Digitized selections from the John Johnson Collection Michael Popham & David Tomkins http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/. JISC. JISC Mass Digitization programme Phase One: 6 projects, £10M began in 2004 Phase Two: 16 projects, £12M, January 2007 The application process:

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Electronic Ephemera

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  1. Electronic Ephemera Digitized selections from the John Johnson CollectionMichael Popham & David Tomkinshttp://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/

  2. JISC • JISC Mass Digitization programme • Phase One: 6 projects, £10M began in 2004 • Phase Two: 16 projects, £12M, January 2007 • The application process: • Two-stage (April '06, August '06) • Examples of other Phase II projects • WWI Poetry Digital Archive, C19th Pamphlets, BL Newspapers, NLW Welsh journals etc.

  3. Why the John Johnson? • JISC criteria • Exposing a “hidden collection” • Of interest to a wider community • Large collection; fragile; constraints on physical access • Previous work • Toyota City Imaging • Backstage • ODL Development Fund (x2) • C18 entertainment; Writing Blanks….

  4. Why ProQuest? • JISC’s enthusiasm for public-private collaborations • ProQuest’s experience • Chadwyck-Healey (+UMI) • Literature Online • Early English Books Online (EEBO/-TCP) • Business model • Sustainability (by charging non-UK subscribers) • Design expertise • Promotion & marketing • Helpline, documentation

  5. Ephemera ‘the minor transient documents of everyday life…’ Maurice Rickards‘the ephemera of today becomes the evidential data of tomorrow ...’ John de Monins Johnson

  6. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/johnson/johnson.htm

  7. Project content Five sections, comprising ca. 65K items and 150K+ images: • Entertainment: 19th century theatre and non-theatrical material • Booktrade: publishing material (e.g. prospectuses, bookplates) • Noteheadings and Popular Prints: record of locations, landscapes and topography, architecture, events, and popular tastes for artistic works and humour • Crime, Murders, and Executions: the judicial system and its punishments • Advertising: in all its printed forms

  8. Project method • the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) provides funds and a project framework • the Bodleian manages the content development aspects of the project: • sorting & shelfmarking • cataloguing • conservation • tracking • digitization (Capita) • ProQuest are responsible for delivery of the resource, and its associated services, on the web

  9. http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/ David Tomkins Project Manager, John Johnson Project Rooms (218 and 219), Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG Tel: 01865-287131 Email: david.tomkins@bodley.ox.ac.uk

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