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Slide1 : Digital Developments at the National Library of Wales: An Overview
Arwel Jones:
Head of Digital Developments
Slide2 : Digitisation within NLW
Projects / Funding
Modern Welsh Journals
Slide3 : Collection Services:
6 Sections:
Digital Developments
Core activity
NLW central funding
40 members of staff
3 units
Slide4 : Image Capture (8)
Metadata & Encoding (10)
Welsh Journals Online (5)
Slide5 : Culturenet Cymru
14 staff
Community Digitisation
120 Partnerships
Gathering the Jewels
Slide6 : Core funding
Central team of 20 permanent members of staff
Stability
Sustainability
Expertise
Long term planning
Partnership funding
Slide7 : Policy:
Images of Wales
Words from the Past
Family History
The Welsh Abroad
Mapping Wales
Exhibitions
Slide8 : Glaniad:
The Welsh Settlers
in Patagonia (Argentina)
One-off funding from
Welsh Assembly Govt
Slide9 : Ohio I&II:
Welsh settlers in Ohio
Private sponsorship
Elizabeth & Evan Davies
Slide10 : Probate:
In-house
250,000 wills
1,200,000 images
Slide11 : Parish Registers:
Church Latter
Day Saints
No cost to NLW
Slide12 : Big Lottery:
Their Past Your
Future I&II
WWII
Digital Storytelling
Geoff Charles
Slide13 : Portread:
15,000 portraits
Funding from:
Garfield Weston
Foyle Foundation
Slide14 : Exhibitions
MSS
Books
Slide15 : JISC
Welsh Journals Online
Slide16 : Partnership
WHELF
JISC
HEFCW
Welsh Assembly Govt
Slide17 : 90 titles (selected)
600,000 pages
20th-21st Century
Slide18 : Searchable
On-going access to
more recent issues
Slide19 : In-house resources:
Materials
Image capture
Metadata creation
Web design
Digital preservation
Sustainability
Slide20 : Outsource the OCR
98.64 - 99.7% accuracy
Slide21 : Theatre of memory
The Theatre of Memory will make
freely available, to be searched and read
by anyone on the internet, the printed
record of Wales and the Welsh.
Its aim is to lay bare the memory of our
country as if in a theatre, so that it
is seen, as it were at a glance, by anyone
in the giant auditorium that is the
World Wide Web.
Andrew Green - 2005
Slide22 : The Digital Mirror :
A digital reflection of the
Library’s collections
http://www.llgc.org.uk/drych/index_s.htm
arwel.jones@llgc.org.uk
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