The Great War Archive: How audiences engaged with WW1
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The Great War Archive: How The Great War Archive: How audiences engaged with WW1audiences engaged with WW1
Kate LindsayKate Lindsay
Manager for EngagementManager for Engagement
[email protected] @ktdigital
Project Aims
To collect and make available online digital version of WW1 memorabilia
held by the public.
Year: 2008Length: 16 WeeksMain Country: UKCollection Days: 6Website: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
The Great War Archive (GWA)
Year: 2011 -Length: 6 Months (ongoing)Main Country: GermanyCollection Days: 8Website: http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu
Ester Weltkreg in Altagsdokumenten (EWA)
Submissions
A submission is the objects + description contributed to the archive together.
Submissions
Files
Overall, GWA submissions have fewer files attached than EWA submissions (on average 3.4 and 14.5)
People Contributing
People Contributing (EWA)
Whilst audience data was not collected for the GWA, we do know that 1/3 of online contributors were uploading submissions on the behalf of someone else.
Observations
• The audiences of GWA and EWA were largely over 45 yrs and male.
• The project audiences were often genealogists, military collectors and local
historians.
• Tapping into existing audiences, conversing with them in the spaces and places
that they already existed led to effective engagement.
• It is indicated that a significant proportion of our audience did not have the IT
literacy skills to engage with the project via technologies.
• Research needs to be done into finding “the hook” for younger audiences.