Ephemera
‘the minor transient documents of everyday life…’
Maurice Rickards
‘the ephemera of today becomes the evidential data of tomorrow ...’
John de Monins Johnson
Project material
• Entertainment: theatre material (mainly by venue) and non-theatrical material (mainly by genre). Mainly 19th-century, as much 18th-century entertainment material is already available through the Oxford Digital Library at: http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library
• Booktrade: publishing material (e.g. prospectuses of books and journals) and bookplates
• Noteheadings and Popular Prints: record of locations, landscapes and topography, architecture, events, and popular tastes for artistic works and humour
• Crime, Murders, and Executions: detailing aspects of the
judicial system and its punishments • Advertising: in all its printed forms
Project participants
• the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) provides funds and a project framework
• the Bodleian manages the content development aspects of the project:
o sorting & shelfmarkingo cataloguingo conservationo trackingo digitisation (Capita)
• ProQuest are responsible for delivery of the resource, and its associated services, on the web
Electronic Ephemera: digitized selections from the John Johnson Collection
David TomkinsProject ManagerJohn Johnson Project Rooms (218 and 219)Bodleian LibraryBroad StreetOxford OX1 3BG
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