Strandlines
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Strandlines Digital Community is a King’s College London initiative that explores one of London’s most famous streets, the Strand, and its past and present communities. The project brings together local residents, workers and visitors by means of storytelling. Using digital technologies and techniques from life writing – a creative field concerned with personal life stories – it seeks to foster a more active sense of community in the Strand area.
| Project start date: 2010-06 | Project end date: 2011-04 |
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| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Moving image capture | Data capture |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Human factors analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
Funding sources:
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Content types created:
Moving Image, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
Audacity, Drupal
Source material used:
Archival resources; audio recordings (interviews); film; photos; written stories from external communities
Digital resource created:
Strandlines Digital Community website (which includes digitized images, stories, audio recordings and films)
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Metadata standards employed:
Other
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| King's College London |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Age Concern Westminster |
| Westminster City Archives |
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| Author(s) of record | Hope Wolf |
| Title | Strandlines |
| Record created | 2010-10-25 |
| Record updated | 2010-10-25 15:43 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/4200 |
| Citation of record | Hope Wolf: Strandlines. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/4200> created: 2010-10-25, last updated 2010-10-25 15:43 |