Mary Smith :: Blog :: Hello and welcome!

My name is Mary and I am the ELL2012 Project Manager. Over the next year I shall use this blog to communicate informally about the process of creating a digital archive, and about doing so on in East London, our local area. We have a diverse team of people working on this project, all of whom have different hopes – and fears! - and I shall try and reflect here on our working decisions and choices about content and design/interfaces. Personally, what I am most looking forward to is the opportunity to make research carried out at UEL in support of the archive entirely open access. In this way we hope to support people studying the impacts of mega events and provide a resource for the local community. In the next few weeks I shall be writing more about how we want to make our archive accessible to everybody.

Please feel free to respond to any posts made – it would be good to hear what people want to see in the archive or to receive advice. We also have a holding website until our project goes live in September 2009 - it is www.uel.ac.uk/ell2012 - please check it out!