Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

From Saffia Widdershins, Host of Designing Worlds: Designing Worlds will this week be focusing on a very special – and timely – project. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at the University of Oxford have collaborated to bring a wealth of First World War poetry and information together in an environment that allows this powerful material to be explored and experienced in a radically new way. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive has imported a range of digitised archival materials from the major poets of the First World War (including poetry manuscripts, letters and diaries) along with contextual primary source materials, into the Second Life environment. These have been located within a presentation modelled to represent areas of the Western Front, 1914 – 1918.



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Jenn Forager said...

Oxford University Computing Services
Sunday 24. Oct 2010 published WW1 Poetry Archive News, with background to this Second Life site and additional resources.

http://bit.ly/9ebm5Z

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