Author Archives: Nikki Rogers

Technical workshop on Cross-searching digital collections

On the 21st September, Visualising China held a very useful workshop in Bristol, looking at the problems of cross-searching multiple remote collections by providing users with a search over integrated data, harvested periodically from target sites/services. The workshop aimed to … Continue reading

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New Project Landing Page and User Engagement Plans

This month we are launching the project “landing page”, designed to help people quickly understand the aims of the project, to sign up for project updates, and to offer input if they wish to. It is primarily aimed at researchers … Continue reading

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Plans to Cross Search Related Content

We held another very productive Steering Committee meeting last month with Malcolm Raggett joining us from SOAS. Malcolm gave really useful input drawn from SOAS experiences in offering content collections online and issues such as problems with the scalability of … Continue reading

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Linking the Knowledge Base to External Content

The Visualising China demo now links to all the images, plus some metadata, in the Historical Photographs of China collection (which was first put online at http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/). One of the goals in this project is to allow end-users (researchers and … Continue reading

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Developing the branding concept for Visualising China

To complement the project developer team we have web designer Ben Hayes on board to help us develop our designs for the Visualising China tool. Stuart Church, our user experience consultant, gave invaluable help earlier in the project to develop … Continue reading

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Early Demo and Discussion with Steering Committee Members

An excellent meeting took place yesterday, bringing together key players in the Visualising China project, including our mentor, Grant Young from the University of Cambridge. Grant is providing a very useful “critical friend” role on the project. Before Christmas the … Continue reading

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Visualising China at the JISC eContent Programme Meeting

Last month Simon Price and Nikki Rogers attended the first Programme Meeting for the 11 new projects funded by the new JISC e-Content Programme. We had several useful discussions with other projects such as those who like Visualising China are … Continue reading

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MockUp of the planned VisualisingChina online tool

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Visualising China – Cross-searching Photographs from British Collections in a Web 2.0 context

The Visualising China project starts next month (September 2009) and runs into 2011. It is a collaboration between the I.L.R.T at the University of Bristol and the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol, building on recent digitisation … Continue reading

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