The Freeze Frame Project

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Creating and Targeting Educational Resources for
Digitisation Projects

• The Freeze Frame Project

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The Project

• JISC funded digitisation project
• Two years
• Archival outreach
• End product free to use website

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The Resource

• Polar images from 1845-1982, Arctic and Antarctic
• 20,000 negatives scanned
• Scanned to 400dpi (tiffs)
• Adjusted with Photoshop, raw archived
• Available free to use at 150 dpi (JPEG), for
  educational purposes

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Searching

• Comprehensive search options
• Simple search images only, text only and image
  and text
• Advances search based on selection options
• Tag cloud key words by which images catalogued

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Facilitating Access

• Freeze Frame motto Conserve, Digitise, Explore
• Conserve negatives via digitisation
• Explore images via educational packages
• Attract new users

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Educational Packages

• Target audience
• Who does the collection lend to?
• What are people interested in?
• What are the requirements of the funding body?
• Is there a gap in the market?

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Pitching an Education Resource

• What will the target audience use it for?
• Situate themselves
• Expand knowledge
• Information to facilitate learning
• Does it need to fit into a wider curriculum?
• Must always refer back to the resource itself

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Thematic Packages

• Situational packages expedition summaries,
  leader biographies, history of photography
• Thematic Packages
• Survival in Extreme Environments clothing,
  nutrition, transport, shelter
• Changing Britain
• Northern Peoples
• Climatic Change

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Website

• Designed and produced by CARET
• Word Press to populate
• Idiot proof!
• Layouts on screen different to those on paper
• Manoeuvrability central

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Other User Groups

• Teachers and educational groups
• Cross-curriculum
• Non-curriculum specific
• Extension activity
• Reappropriation external and internal

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Feedback

• Took suggestions to steering committee
• Trialled by a university group
• Positive feedback
• Suggestions for extension

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• Launching March 2009
• www.freezeframe.ac.uk