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There are a huge number of WW1 collections and content held by a vast number of museums, archives, local historical societies and large public bodies in the UK alone, all in varying digital states and under a range of licensing regimes. This is not to mention the swathes of information and artefacts held be other particpants in the Great war within Europe, US and Canada and beyond.
King’s College London, commissioned by JISC, have created an online collections database: ‘UK World War One Collections’ which captures information on UK university, archive, library and museum holdings relating to the conflict in analogue and digital form. This builds on a previous piece of collaborative work, between JISC, the Wellcome Trust and the Imperial War Museum in undertaking some intial mapping work to investigate where UK WW1 collections are held, key componant features of the collections, whether they had been digitised and under what licensing scheme they have been made available: Guide to WW1 Collections
However, to act as a brief introduction to this area, the following links may be useful
JISC activity of relevance to this JISC WW1 programmes is:
- The Great War Archive
- Welsh Voices of the Great War Online
- The Serving Soldier
- Cabinet Papers 1915- 1978
- NewsFilm Online
- JISC MediaHub
- JISC eContent Capital Programme
- A full list of content digitised or licensed by JISC can be found at: www.jisc-content.ac.uk
Further background information can be found at:
- Imperial War Museums’ ‘First World War Centenary Partnership‘
- Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten
- Europeana 1914-1918: Remembering the First World War – a digital collection of outstanding sources from European national libraries
- EFG1914 project- digitisation project focusing on films and non-film material from and related to World War I.