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Welcome. Housekeeping Introductions Outline of days. Eisernes Kreuz zweiter Klasse 1914. Who are we?. Alun Edwards Everett Sharp Katharine Lindsay Stephen Bull Stuart Lee Ylva Berglund Prytz. Oxford team. PR & Publicity: Frank Drauschke Jon Purday Jackie Storer. Europeana.
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Welcome • Housekeeping • Introductions • Outline of days
Who are we? • Alun Edwards • Everett Sharp • Katharine Lindsay • Stephen Bull • Stuart Lee • Ylva Berglund Prytz Oxford team
PR & Publicity: Frank Drauschke Jon Purday Jackie Storer
Europeana • Management • Technical • Catalogue • etc
Tuesday 7th Feb Wednesday 8th Feb 9.30-11 Preparing 11-11.30 coffee 11.30-12.30 After the roadshow 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Exploring further 15-15.30 coffee 15.30-16 Q&A 9.00 Registration and coffee 9.30-11 Welcome and introductions 11 -11.30 coffee 11.30-13 The roadshow 13-14 Lunch 14-15.30 More about roadshows 15.30 coffee 16-17 Press and PR 18.00 (optional) Evensong or Exploration of Oxford pubs 19.00 Dinner
Planned roadshows • Luxembourg : 6 March • UK (Preston): 10 March • Ireland: 21 March • Slovenia: 28 March • Denmark: May (?) • UK (Oxfordshire) • Belgium • Portugal • Italy
All in a larger context • Europeana • Europeana Awareness • Centenary • Local concerns • …
Wting Waiting Exhibition Waiting PC Welcome Press Interview Interview Interview Interview Check-in desk Interview Scanning Storage Selector Photo Photo Photo
Welcome Desk Inform visitors about project/event • explain process (time it takes) • explain permissions • introduce contributors to interviewers • ensure no-one is left waiting too long • keep statistics of visitors and contributors
Licence Everyone has to understand licence – staff and contributors Without signed form we cannot use stories or objects
Press Desk Help press get the info they need without disturbing the operation (too much!)
Interview An interview is a conversation between two people (the interviewer and the interviewee) where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee. (Wikipedia 4 Feb 2012)
The Form Needed for: • Consent • Information • Link to object(s)
The Form Paper, computer, or online? Record information Signature
Interview – find out: • Who brought this in? (visitor name, contact details) If for someone else, who are they? (name) • Do they have the right to submit it? (explain and sign form) • What is it? (‘title’) • When and where is it from? • Story – what is known? • Where does the object come from? How did the visitor get it? • Is there a particular story? • Who is the person the object relates to? What is their relationship to the visitor? • Is anything else known about this person? What happened to them after the war? Any relatives/friends? • What does the visitor remember about person or object? • Anything else?
Cataloguing metadata Cataloguer Alternative title (translation into English) Date created (for example when the letter was written or photograph taken) Date range ending (end the date for an object with a date range, like a diary) Author (For example the person who wrote the postcard) Subject (the person or place or object that the item is about. For a photograph of a person the subject would be his name) File type (Text, Image, Audio or Video) Source (that the item was digitised from , for example a leaf, a folio, a notebook, a reel of film) Medium (the material of the object that has been digitised, for example paper, card, tape) Content (what the object is, for example poem, letter, photograph or piece of memorabilia) Page number Total number of pages Editor's pick Cataloguer's notes Language (of the object, letter, postcard etc). Keywords (closed list) Collection Day
What do we choose? How do we choose?
Digitisation check-in/out desk • receive objects for digitisation; • give time estimate and manage expectations of contributors; • keep track of flow to digitisation stations; • ensure nothing is lost; • return object to correct contributor; • manage paperwork;
Digitisation • Scanning or photographing? • Speed vs. quality • Special cases: 3D objects, curling paper, large items, quality of print etc.