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The First World War Poetry Digital Archive has now added a number of new poetry collections, including David Jones and Siegfried Sassoon (launching in November 2009). The education area of the site has been redesigned and improved, timelines now allow users to compare content across time and, coming shortly, the archive will be entering the virtual environment of Second Life!

This Oxford University led project will enhance the digital resources made available in the JISC-funded First World War Poetry Digital Archive. The latter is funded by the JISC under the phase 2 digitisation programme and has captured images of the poetical manuscripts and letters of the major British poets of WW1 to supplement the 10-year old JTAP project on Wilfred Owen. The project also created the Great War Archive whereby members of the public were invited to submit digital surrogates of items they owned. In total, when the project launches on 11th November 2008 it will contain nearly 15,000 items.

This new project sets out to enhance these digital resources by making them more useful to practitioners and tying them in directly to curricula. Using various tools the project will demonstrate curated paths through the collection, and solicit material created directly by practitioners. A range of tools will be used including MIT's timelines, VUE, Flickr, Google Groups, and the project's own Path Creation Scheme. A small part of the budget is also there to fund the digitisation of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon, who could not be included in the original project.

Lead site: Oxford University

Download the Final Report (PDF)

Download Project Plan (PDF)