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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

lorna.hughes@llgc.org.uk @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

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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

lorna.hughes@llgc.org.uk @lornamhughes