This special event showcased how technology can assist in the promotion and development of women’s history.
Presentations
Their Finest Hour Online Archive (University of Oxford)- Catherine Conisbee Project Officer, Sustainable Digital Scholarship (SDS) service, Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
https://theirfinesthour.english.ox.ac.uk/home
Their Finest Hour is an extraordinary collection of more than 2,000 stories and 25,000 objects contributed by the public, capturing personal and community experiences of the Second World War. This presentation will explore how this remarkable collection was created, describe some of the digital tools used by the team, and introduce the two new research projects it inspired: Mapping ‘Their Finest Hour’ and Extracting Keywords from Crowdsourced Collections.
Catherine showcased these stories in her talk
Find out more about the project in this article. https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.265
Perth Women on Wikipedia, Gill Ryan
Perth Women on Wikipedia, is an ongoing partnership between Wikimedia UK and Culture Perth and Kinross libraries. Gill Ryan is a Wikimedia trainer who has run workshops using the library as a resource not just a venue. She spoke on the value of libraries and archives as sources to prove women’s notability and the challenges of online feminist knowledge activism.
Case study improved Jess Smith Wikipedia page
Wayback machine page before editing
Jess Smith (writer) – Wikipedia
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words at the British Library- Calum Cockburn, Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, BL
https://www.bl.uk/whats-on/medieval-women/
Postponed due to illness.
alissnet.com 