Jonathan Purday Senior Communications Advisor Oxford, February 2012 Europeana

Built on the RunCoCo platform devised by Oxford for the Great War Archive family history roadshows – events at which we catalogued and digitised stories, papers and memorabilia Provided a website to which people could upload their own material

Phase 1: 2011 Germany 9 Roadshow events across Germany 600 people came to the roadshows; 350 contributed material 560 people contributed through the website 26,000 images and scans entered Europeana 40% of these were uploaded direct to site Most of the material was unpublished: letters, diaries, drawings, photographs, postcards

Phase 2: Spring 2012 Luxembourg, 6 March Preston, UK, 10 March Dublin, Ireland, 21 March Nova Goriza, Slovenia, 28 March Sønderborg Castle, Denmark, 24 April

Luxembourg 6 March contributors, 2,000 scans

Preston 10 March contributors 220 visitors 2,300 scans

Dublin 21March contributors 600 visitors ???? scans

‘Nobody else has ever read these and nobody will want them when I’ve gone’ ‘WW1 is a forgotten story here – or nobody wanted to hear it’ ‘It’s falling to pieces; it won’t last much longer’ ‘I think I’m the last one who knows who they were’ ‘I’ve never used the Internet - but my nephew can show me’ ‘I want to share their story. Out of respect, I suppose’

Phase 3: Hackathons, April-June 2012 Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Ireland Using the API to develop prototype apps data is openly licenced; content is CC-BY-SA Competition to be announced by Commissioner for Digital Agenda on 9 May Prize is the opportunity to develop the prototype app to production standard

Phase 4: Collaboration with Europeana Collections and European Film Gateway on online exhibitions and education resources Building a European partnership of local libraries and museums as centres of community history Making our API available to distribute our WW1 data widely More roadshows and language versions of the site Belgium, Autumn 2012 Italy, Spring 2013 France Switzerland Austria Portugal Poland Russia... Turkey... ?

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