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Ymchwil Research Ymchwil Research Cymru1914.org: Understanding Use and Impact of a First World War Digital Archive 5 September 2014 | Digital Humanities Congress 2014 Prof Lorna Hughes, Dr Owain Roberts, Paul McCann Research Programme in Digital Collections National Library of Wales [email protected] @lornamhughes
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Rhyfel Byd 1914-1918 a’r profiad Cymreig / Welsh experience of the First World War 1914-1918 (www.cymru1914.org) is a mass digital archive of the primary sources relating to the First World War in Wales. It was funded by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from February 2012-October 2013. The project has digitized archives, manuscripts, photographs, art works, and oral histories held by the archives and special collections of Wales to create a coherent, consolidated digital collection revealing the often hidden history of the impact of the War: an invaluable resource for teaching, research, and public engagement that is available to support many aspects of the commemoration of the centenaries of the First World War. The Research Programme in Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales has carried out research into the use and impact of the digital collections of Wales, and these studies have identified key interventions in the digital life-cycle that can increase the impact of digital resources by a wide variety of stakeholders. The development of Cymru1914.org incorporated these findings. This presentation will discuss the development of this digital resource, and in particular, it will highlight ways that considerations of end-use and impact were built into project planning. This includes selection of content, interface development, community engagement, and planning for long-term sustainability of the finished digital resource. We will also discuss detailed analysis of the use of the resources since its launch in November 2013, in order to understand the full extent of the use and impact of the resource internationally.
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Cymru1914.org: Understanding Use and Impact of a First World War Digital Archive
5 September 2014 | Digital Humanities Congress 2014
Prof Lorna Hughes, Dr Owain Roberts, Paul McCannResearch Programme in Digital CollectionsNational Library of Wales
[email protected] @lornamhughes
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IMPACT
Mike Beauregard – CC BY 2.0 - inside Canyon Diablo meteor crater https://www.flickr.com/photos/31856336@N03/12419204375/
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free was an afterthought by turn off your computer and go outside CC BY-NC-SA 2.0www.flickr.com/photos/turn_off_your_computer_and_go_outside/9264162137
AN AFTERTHOUGHT?
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cymruww1.llgc.org.uk (Project Blog)
@CymruWW1
200,000 pages newspapersphotographs
archives
50 hours of audio20 hours of audio visual
70% English30% Welsh
Freely available onlineCC BY-NC-SA 2.0
cymru1914.org
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What does existing
research tell us?
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• Lowering barriers to access– Free access; ease of resource discovery; clarity of
resource description; accessibility
• Factoring in long-term uptake and embedding– Access to data; citation support; visibility to key
communities; stakeholder engagement
• Sustainable, open technical platform – Open data and API; using scalable, open technical
platforms; integrated into institutional priorities for long-term sustainability
• User-led design– Ensuring appropriate content; interface design; iterative
user testing
Key Impact Factors
(Hypothesis)
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Lowering barriers to access
Long-term uptake and embedding
Sustainable, open technical platform
User-led designKey Impact Factors
(Hypothesis)
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CONTENT THAT PACKS A PUNCH!
What rights issues are
there?
What are the
Research Questions?
Available collections
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User Interface development
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Did it work?
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Google Analytics – Preliminary Results
Session Duration % Sessions More than 1 min 43%More than 3 min 33%More than 10 min 20%More than 30 min 9%
1 in 5 users spend more than 10 minutes on the site
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Page Depth
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Supported by post launch interviews
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Backed up by tweets!!!
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How users get to Cymru1914.org
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Source Sessions% New
SessionsNew
Users Bounce RatePages / Session
Avg. Session Duration
bbc.co.uk 2,964 55.06% 1,632 20.38% 20.49 725.45t.co 1,303 53.11% 692 54.80% 7.29 236.47facebook.com 1,011 56.08% 567 34.32% 16.61 670.88whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com 718 52.79% 379 25.21% 16.50 652.36jisc.ac.uk 541 66.91% 362 41.22% 16.55 523.59llgc.org.uk 458 43.01% 197 16.81% 26.51 804.26walesremembers.org 457 30.85% 141 19.04% 36.74 1475.82m.facebook.com 442 76.92% 340 57.24% 3.83 150.00rootschat.com 378 31.22% 118 10.58% 28.76 1113.63genealogyintime.com 354 78.53% 278 31.64% 12.78 458.861914-1918.invisionzone.com 300 48.00% 144 31.00% 18.88 650.98kenfig.org.uk 274 3.65% 10 49.27% 13.20 490.16glamorganfamhistory.wordpress.com 231 13.42% 31 2.60% 53.73 1818.97cymruww1.llgc.org.uk 180 29.44% 53 27.22% 16.97 698.53search.bt.com 143 64.34% 92 35.66% 18.27 743.58uk-mg-bt.mail.yahoo.com 129 35.66% 46 11.63% 46.90 1716.10semalt.com 116 100.00% 116 94.83% 1.35 2.11m.bbc.co.uk 87 74.71% 65 28.74% 4.48 175.56en.wikipedia.org 82 89.02% 73 50.00% 8.16 188.41cgnfhs.org.uk 76 51.32% 39 40.79% 14.67 580.47rwf-forum.co.uk 74 4.05% 3 18.92% 8.99 581.14snorbens.wordpress.com 72 58.33% 42 19.44% 16.82 504.54cherry.shef.ac.uk 67 2.99% 2 16.42% 16.25 941.46merthyrww1.llgc.org.uk 64 6.25% 4 26.56% 20.02 737.91centenarynews.com 59 79.66% 47 11.86% 20.14 427.98 12,066 52.69% 6,357 31.74% 17.83 646.45
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Sustainability and re-use
Online exhibition using Omeka, using digital archives from Cymru1914.org
Dr Paul O’LearyAberystwyth University
merthyrww1.llgc.org.uk
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www.walesatwar.org
Funded by
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Cymru1914.org: Understanding Use and Impact of a First World War Digital Archive
September 5th 2014 | Digital Humanities Congress 2014
Prof Lorna HughesUniversity of Wales Chair in Digital Collections National Library of Wales
[email protected] @lornamhughes
