Exploiting historic collections online

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Exploiting historic collections online

• Mike McConnell, Web TeamIain Middleton, Learning
  Technology Unit
• University of Aberdeen

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Special Collections

• Web based searchable databases of rare
  manuscripts, books, ephemera and multimedia
• Funded by New Opportunities Funding (now the Big
  Lottery Fund)
• Non-proprietary written to the nof-digitise
  standard

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The Music of James Scott Skinner

• The collection includes
• Skinner's handwritten copies of his work
• His editor's copies and printer's proofs of the
  same collection
• Letters, concert programmes, images
• Examples from Skinner's entire output
• Audio and video material
• Scott Skinner

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The Voice of Radicalism

• The collection includes
• political articles from newspapers and journals,
  prints, squibs and ephemera such as handbills and
  song sheets all as images and PDFs
• audio recordings of political ballads that relate
  to some of these themes
• The Voice of Radicalism

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Technical data LEMUR

• MySQL
• PHP and HTML
• SPECTRUM museum documentation standard
• JPEG 300ppi
• QTVR (QuickTime Virtual Reality)

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Technical data Skinner Radicalism

• MySQL
• PHP HTML
• nof-digitise standard
• TIFF and JPEG 300ppi
• MP3, MPEG4
• digital video capture, edited with Adobe Premier
  and then Sorenson Squeeze
• Flash movies as an alternative

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Conclusions

• New media overcome spatial and temporal barriers
  to access
• Raise awareness of and access to collections
• Positive results for the institution
• Educational benefits
• Enhanced awareness and public profile
• Stimulus for activities and further developments

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URLs

• The Marischal Virtual Museumhttp//www.abdn.ac.uk
  /virtualmuseum/
• The LEMUR Projecthttp//www.abdn.ac.uk/lemur/
• The Music of James Scott Skinnerhttp//www.abdn.a
  c.uk/scottskinner/
• The Voice of Radicalismhttp//www.abdn.ac.uk/radi
  calism/

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Contacts

• Mike McConnellm.mcconnell_at_abdn.ac.uk
• Iain Middletoni.a.middleton_at_abdn.ac.uk
• Web Design Unithttp//www.abdn.ac.uk/web/
• Learning Technology Unithttp//www.abdn.ac.uk/dis
  s/ltu/