NDLR Fest 2011 Interactive eBooks of the Magazine of Magazines, a Mid-Eighteenth Century Limerick Publication Dr. Michael Griffin, Yvonne Diggins, & Zi Parker (ISSP Government of Ireland Scholar), University of Limerick 23 rd March 2011

Highlighting another Digitisation Project!!  UL Research Seed Fund and PRTLI4  Magazine images text searchable  First study and analysis of the periodical - part of the ISSP/PRTLI4 project ‘Transforming Technologies’  Available as a public good

Summary of NDLR 2011 Presentation  Introduction to the Magazine of Magazines  Target Audience & Project Objectives  Who was involved?  Demonstration of eBooks  Software Used  Storing of eBooks  User Feedback  Future Plans

 18th Century Limerick publication, Andrew Welsh  Reprint of the London Magazine of Magazines, William Owen  New literary material and scientific or technological advances at a European level The Magazine of Magazines : An Overview

 Thomas Gray’s famous Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, in 1751  Dr Johnson and Voltaire  Published for the best part of two decades, from 1751 to 1769  Science, philosophy, medicine, meteorology, religion, mythology and literature

Target Audience & Project Objectives  Academics, students, researchers – English Literature, Humanities, History, Librarian and archival studies  Bring the experience of the eighteenth-century Limerick reader to life from microfilm through to online interaction

Project Objectives (cont.)  Enhance T&L in this subject area - students who may not have an initial interest in non-contemporary literature  make rare and primary resources readily available for T&L  User friendly quality and innovative reusable learning resources - Digitise for lifelong learning and ease of online sharing

Who is Involved in this eBook Project?

National Digital Learning Resources Service 2010 National NDLR Funding (5,000 Euro)

The Eighteenth Century Research Group  Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research into the ‘long’ 18th century  Prof. Geraldine Sheridan, Dr. Michael Griffin, Yvonne Diggins, Research Assistant and Zi Parker, ISSP Government of Ireland Scholar (UL)

The British Library and the National Library of Ireland  Incomplete run in the British Library for the period  The National Library of Ireland, January 1751 – September 1769, partial copy in the Joly collection

Trinity College Dublin  Prof. Frank Boland, Darren Kavanagh and John Squires  iMark - interactive Media Annotation Resource Kit  Digitisation technical support and advice  iMark further developments

Demonstration of the eBooks 

Software Used  Photoshop CS5 (saving of images for web)  Audacity (recording annotations)  iMark- interactive Media Annotation Resource Kit

iMark - interactive Media Annotation Resource Kit  Document Annotation System  Interactive book environment for the end user  accompanying text fields, audio inserts, web URLs, video etc.  Open source software to Irish HE Academics -NDLR

Storing of eBook Output  NDLR  UL Institutional Repository  National Library of Ireland  Open Access Initiative-Protocol Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

User Feedback: Academic Position

User Feedback: Usefulness of Resources

User Feedback: Would you use these resources in T&L

User Feedback: How would you use these resources in T&L

User Feedback: Why are these resources useful to T&L?

User Feedback: How could these resources be improved

Future Plans  JISC online case study (under review)  ECRG Digitisation Project Launch (April 2011)  Social media campaigns to generate awareness of the project  Including the eBooks in national and international 18 th Century collections  Completing the set (NLI) ( )

Thank You!  NDLR  Our project partners Trinity College Dublin, the British Library and Mary Immaculate College