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Ymchwil Research Ymchwil Research Finding Belgian Refugees in Cymru1914.org: Using Digital Resources to Uncover Hidden Histories of the First World War Prof Lorna Hughes University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections National Library of Wales Responses to Belgian refugees in Britain during the First World War: a Symposium Stirling | 2 nd September 2014
Finding Belgian Refugees in Cymru1914.org: Using Digital Resources to Uncover Hidden Histories of the First World War
Keynote talk, presented 2nd September at "Responses to Belgian Refugees in Britain during the First World War: a Symposium", Stirling University. The talk refers to using the digital archive cymru1914.org for research.
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1. Finding Belgian Refugees in Cymru1914.org: Using Digital
Resources to Uncover Hidden Histories of the First World War
Ymchwil Research Prof Lorna Hughes University of Wales Chair in
Digital Collections National Library of Wales Responses to Belgian
refugees in Britain during the First World War: a Symposium
Stirling | 2nd September 2014
2. Digital Collections and the National Library of Wales
Ymchwil Research Digitisation supports: Access to Welsh and Celtic
materials by global audience Preservation Collections enhancement
and reunification Transformation of scholarship Community
engagement A cohesive, national collection with the underlying
principle of free access to digital content www.llgc.org.uk
3. Papurau Newydd Cymru Arlein | Welsh Newspapers Online
Ymchwil Research Weekly Mail, 16th January, 1909
welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk
4. NLW Research Programme in Digital Collections Ymchwil
Research UNDERSTANDING USE OF EXISTING DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
ENHANCING USE OF DIGITAL CONTENT for research, teaching or
community engagement DEVELOPING NEW DIGITAL CONTENT in partnership
with academics and other key stakeholders
www.llgc.org.uk/research
5. The Welsh Experience of the First World War: Ymchwil
Research Cymru1914.org National Library of Wales Bangor University
Cardiff University Aberystwyth University Swansea University
University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids BBC Cymru Wales Archive
Local archives of: o Conwy o Flintshire o Glamorgan o Gwent The
Peoples Collection, Wales
6. Ymchwil Research Cymru1914.org: Project Overview Mass
digitization project 500,000 funding from Jisc e-Content programme
Also funded by partner contributions (total budget 1,000,000)
All-Wales Collaboration through Welsh Higher Education Libraries
Forum (WHELF) Partnership of Archives and Special Collections of
Wales Includes community-generated content A major focus for First
World War research, education, and commemoration Developed in
collaboration with stakeholders from many user communities
cymru1914.org @CymruWW1
7. Ymchwil Research Selection of Content Content from special
collections and archives of Wales Consolidated and (re)unified
access to disparate collections 200,000+ pages and photographs 50
hours of audio 20 hours of audio visual Materials identified in
collaboration with partners and academics Content approximately 70%
English 30% Welsh Rights management part of selection process; all
digital content BY-NC-SA
8. User Interface development: participatory, user led design
process, and iterative testing Ymchwil Research
9. Multilingual tools: Canolfan Bedwyr, Bangor University
Ymchwil Research
10. Finding the Belgians in Cymru1914: Newspapers Ymchwil
Research
11. Ymchwil Research A hearty welcome
12. Ymchwil Research N-Gram of Belgian Refugees in newspapers
Number of articles mentioning Belgian refugees 1914 1915 1916 1917
1918 1919
13. Letter from Chief Constable's Office, Canton, Cardiff:
Belgian Refugees within the County, 12 February 1915 Ymchwil
Research http://cymru1914.org/en/view/manuscripts/4451499/2
14. Ymchwil Research Oral history from the Swansea Miners
Library: Of course there was one Belgian refugee there
http://cymru1914.org/en/view/sound/aaaab00000001
15. Ymchwil Research Distinguished Belgian refugees Welsh
Outlook, July, 1915 welshjournals.llgc.org.uk
16. Ymchwil Research Newspapers: Letters to the Editor
http://cymru1914.org/en/view/newspaper/4118432/2/ART28/belgia
n
17. Ymchwil Research W. D. Roberts Papers from NLW NLW MS
9982E: http://cymru1914.org/en/view/archive/3988263
18. 1st Nov, 1914 A Committee has been formed in the parish to
help the Belgian refugees Ymchwil Research
http://cymru1914.org/en/view/archive_file/3988264/63
19. 2nd December 1914: Letter regarding refugee allocation
Ymchwil Research
http://cymru1914.org/en/view/archive_file/3988264/78
20. 15th December, 1914: A party of six Belgians arrive in
Llanfair Ymchwil Research
http://cymru1914.org/en/view/archive_file/3988264/93
21. Charles Wens, aged 41; his wife, Angelique Wens, ages 40.
Joanne Lienknecht aged 45; her children Julia Gubel, 2,; Charles
Gubel, 17, and Caroline Lienknecht, 6. Ymchwil Research The
Belgians of Llanfair
http://cymru1914.org/en/view/archive_file/3988264/195
22. Ymchwil Research On behalf of us BelgiansWe all thank you
and all the inhabitants of Llanfair for your great kindness to us
9th June 1915
23. Ymchwil Research 19th April, 1916: War Refugees Committee
we hoped to be able to send all these people to Glasgow after
Easter
24. Ymchwil Research Linked Data Talking in Triples Statements
are made about things using triples Person 1 has name Charles Wens
The two ends of the triples can overlap with other triples forming
a graph NOTE: Overlap in this case means having the same beginning
or end URI
25. Ymchwil Research Linked Data Graph - Example
26. Ymchwil Research
http://cymru1914.org/en/view/archive_file/3988264/155
27. Ymchwil Research Thank you!
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