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Description: | "The mission of Coalfield Web Materials (CWM) is to improve lifelong learning opportunities by stimulating and maintaining interest in the local history and cultural heritage of South Wales. This is achieved by creating digital surrogates of original documentary and audiovisual material relating to the history and development of the South Wales Coalfield, facilitating access to this material via the Web, and promoting and developing it as a learning resource. The South Wales Coalfield Collection at the University of Wales Swansea contains material in a variety of formats, relating especially to the experiences of individual miners and their communities. The CWM project is digitising documentary, photographic, audio and video material from this collection, and provides access to this via a dedicated website organised around a number of key themes. As well as providing an exciting learning opportunity which exploits current technology to the full, this project enables us to preserve key parts of this internationally important heritage collection in digital form. ""AGOR"", the title for the ""mining and extraction"" part of the NOF-digi programme, is a Welsh word meaning ""open"". Its significance for our project is that it represents both the opening up of the Welsh landscape in order to extract coal during the industrial past of the region, and also the use of modern web technology to reveal the importance of this period of our heritage for learners today and in the future, wherever they may be based. It may also of course be regarded as representing the ""opening of minds"" which will become possible for those coming to the AGOR website in search of knowledge and understanding. ""AGOR"" may also be expanded as an acronym to stand for ""Adnoddau Gwybodaeth O'r Rhyngrwyd"" (literally, ""Information Sources from the Internet""). The CWM project is just one half of ""AGOR""; the other half being the ""Llechwefan"" (or ""slatesite"") project led by Gwynedd Council (Culture section) to provide a similar insight into the history and development of the North Wales slate industry. ""CWM"", of course, is also the Welsh word for ""valley"". " | Source: | MichaelUKProject | Identifier: | sdx:www.michael-culture.org.uk:80:pub-uk |
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