This presentation uses the Manufacturing Pasts project, funded by JISC, as an example of how research outputs can be shared with the world through a combination of institutionally-supplied web services, and social media.

1. Duns Lane by Dennis Calow, Myleicestershire.org
Manufacturing Pasts:
Share your research digitally to the world
Wharf Street by Dennis Calow, MyLeicestershire.org
IT Focus Week, 21 November 2013
Terese Bird
Learning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow
Institute of Learning innovation
www.le.ac.uk

2. What will we talk about?
• What is Manufacturing
Pasts?
• How we shared out the
direct outputs (ContentDM)
• How we provided context
(Plone)
• How we got the word out
(Social Media)
Photo by esrad on Flickr

3. Manufacturing Pasts: making the history
accessible
• No historiography of British industrial decline
• Dead zone: 70s – 90s
• Locked away
• Open materials (CC-BY-NC)
• Capture it now
• Not didactic but context
• Accessible
• Text, audio, video, interactive
Photo by Wesley Fryer on Flickr

4. Fires – the need to capture now

5. Mobile

6. Sharing the outputs: ContentDM
http://myleicestershire.org.uk

7. Context (Plone website)
http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts

8. Key Skills
Analyzing and drawing conclusions from primary sources,
including image-based sources, is a key skill for historians and
specialists in many fields, and utilising digitised primary
sources has been effective in building such skills (Tally &
Goldenberg, 2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03AO7HIMr5Y#t=90

9. Evolving Needs for the Digital Humanities
Toolkit for researchers:
• Using visual sources in
historical research
• Using oral testimony in
historical research
• Provenance, judgement
Tools for students & teachers:
• Glossary, reference
• How to make your own
• How to reference

10. How we shared
Manufacturing Pasts

11. Blog (Wordpress) – open research
notebook, share findings, discuss

12. Wikipedia – no promotion allowed

13. iTunes U – research-related welcome:
video, audio, and text

14. iTunes U – worldwide

15. iTunes U – worldwide (numbers
are for 8 months)
Collection
Browse
(hits)
Downloads Subscribe
Stream
Conservation
695
104
65
94
De-Industrialisation
201
36
20
30
Factory & Community
408
185
45
68
Social Life of the Factory
315
255
26
100
Social Life of Factory Course
388
158
60
55

16. YouTube – You need to be on YouTube. Do narrated
slideshows for easy quality (views 155 to 400 in year)

17. Scoop.it – find material by keyword, ‘scoop’ to
your topic, automatically tweet (932 views –page)

18. Flickr – still the best for images

19. Prezi

20. The story
so far…
Any
questions?
www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts
These slides on Slideshare tbirdcymru
Twitter: tbirdcymru

21. References
• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicestere. (2010). OTTER: Open,
Transferable and Technology-enabled Educational Resources — University of
Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012, from
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-researchalliance/projects/otter
• Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester. (2011). OSTRICH: OER
Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs —
University of Leicester. University of Leicester website. Retrieved March 12, 2012,
from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-researchalliance/projects/ostrich
• Tally, B., & Goldenberg, L. B. (2005). Fostering Historical Thinking With Digitized
Primary Sources. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 5191, 1-21.
Retrieved from
http://students.stritch.edu/dlcaven/Article2/DigitizedPrimarySources.pdf
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