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![]() On Saturday 29 June 2013, the British Library hosted a workshop to start making some of their material from the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project publicly available. There was a public talk in the morning, to introduce the collections and the project, and then we had a chance to work with the material. At the time of the event, the collections were (mostly) not yet published online, but a significant amount of them were made available on the day prior to release. The digitisation project was aiming to cover about 10,000 items published during and after the war, including a large number of books now out of print and difficult to obtain, as well as wartime ephemera from the UK and elsewhere.
Attendees were able to get a first chance to work with the digitised collections. Only a small fraction of these were online at the time of the event, and most of it wouldn't be posted until some point in 2014. At the same time there were scans on-site to work with! Things we have had interest in:
The overall planned collection consists of about 10,000 items, of which most are English-language books, pamphlets and journals. There are large amounts of sheet music, manuscript items, and around 1000 non-English published books, with a small collection of photographs and maps. Not all of this will be available on the day - they have not all been digitised yet, and some material has a complex copyright situation that limits its availability. A detailed list of the selection available on the day is now available here:
Some sample titles from the printed collections:
Among other articles: Attendees were able to sign up below or on eventbrite. Around twenty people attended.
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Welcome | Discuss | Participate | Digitised books | Image requests | Events and Workshops | International Dunhuang Project |
![]() On Saturday 29 June 2013, the British Library hosted a workshop to start making some of their material from the Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project publicly available. There was a public talk in the morning, to introduce the collections and the project, and then we had a chance to work with the material. At the time of the event, the collections were (mostly) not yet published online, but a significant amount of them were made available on the day prior to release. The digitisation project was aiming to cover about 10,000 items published during and after the war, including a large number of books now out of print and difficult to obtain, as well as wartime ephemera from the UK and elsewhere.
Attendees were able to get a first chance to work with the digitised collections. Only a small fraction of these were online at the time of the event, and most of it wouldn't be posted until some point in 2014. At the same time there were scans on-site to work with! Things we have had interest in:
The overall planned collection consists of about 10,000 items, of which most are English-language books, pamphlets and journals. There are large amounts of sheet music, manuscript items, and around 1000 non-English published books, with a small collection of photographs and maps. Not all of this will be available on the day - they have not all been digitised yet, and some material has a complex copyright situation that limits its availability. A detailed list of the selection available on the day is now available here:
Some sample titles from the printed collections:
Among other articles: Attendees were able to sign up below or on eventbrite. Around twenty people attended.
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