The Creating Online Resources for Engagement and Learning (COREL) project aimed to design an open-source, cross-platform digital service that enables the holders of documents to upload and publish their digitised texts, turning them into accessible online exhibits that will attract a wide range of users, as well as inform, educate and entertain them.
To test a series of design concepts, we used a variety of textual sources of historical interest, including official and personal documents and newspapers, some of these provided by community partners.
The digital curation tool was developed in partnership with Life Lines, a local Nottingham-based community history group, whose work is supported by heritage consultancy Culture Syndicates, and with a number of public research organisations, including , the , the and .