Documentation

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive project ran from April 2007 to March 2009, with further work to enrich the archive carried out between October 2008 and September 2009 (final report 2010). The proposal, plan and reports can be found below.

Project Proposal (August 2006)

Project Plan (May 2007)

Progress Report (April 2008)

Progress Report (November 2008)

Final Report (November 2008)

Digitisation Workflow Diagram

Web Submission Process for the Great War Archive (January 2008)

Interactive Timelines Specification (January 2009)

Progress Report (April 2009)

Progress Report: Appendix 1 (April 2009)

Final Report (January 2010)

RunCoCo Web Software

Used during the Great War Archive Initiative, RunCoCo (Run a Community Collection) is a Ruby on Rails web application used to collect and catalogue content contributed by website users. That content can be either textual or consist of uploaded files with metadata collected via form fields. The quality assessment of contributions was performed by administrators adding metadata and marking suitable items as "approved". The application provides an interface for publicly exposing the catalogued contributions. You are free to extend the application to suit your needs, or export the data for re-use in other applications.

RunCoCo was further developed in 2010 by the RunCoCo project to provide a web interface for searching and browsing approved contributions.