Project title: 'The snows of yesteryear: narrating extreme weather'

总结：讲述极端天气：收集极端天气影响的证据，通过收集极端天气事件影响的档案数据和个人回忆，记录和发展对气候变化的认识，并收集人们描述气候变化经历的方式的词汇。通过该项目收集的数据将有助于与气候科学家(特别是英国气象局的阿克雷倡议)共同开发一项更大的工作，他们正在收集证据，以便绘制出记录和描述一段时间内极端天气事件的方式。该项目还将把这些材料数字化地结合在一起，并通过埃迪·拉德开发和实现的表演作品与更广泛的观众交流。《昨天的雪》项目目前主要关注的是威尔士国家图书馆的一个博客。在增加资源的情况下，项目组将扩大数字技术的整合，并使其成为项目其余部分的核心，以便捕获和存档来源以及传播项目的产出。加强网站的功能和能力将是项目研究小组传播档案重建、文本分析、口述历史、创造性的可视化、讲故事和表演的中心内容。一个复杂的项目网站将为这些材料提供联系。支持这一点的额外网站功能将由威尔士国家图书馆的信息技术和数字馆藏工作人员开发，并托管在该图书馆的高可用性平台上。该网站将以开放源码内容管理系统为基础。这将整合捕获和存储音频和视频的工具，以便收集以实践为指导的产出的记录，还将支持以文字、音频和视频内容的形式上传极端事件的经验。该网站将成为该项目知识传播的关键节点。并由国家图书馆存档，作为具有持久公共影响的公共资源持续存在，并纳入图书馆的参与和外联活动。为了加强项目的分散要素，并创造更多的项目产出，以增加这项工作的价值，项目组对项目计划进行了一些修订，需要额外供资19,997.59 GB。这些将在整个扩展项目中进行，目前已于2013年5月1日结束。以下说明详细说明了这些修改：1.对项目网站的改进。-技术开发工作将通过整合音频和视频捕获工具来增强网站。这将使该网站的“数字讲故事”能力得到加强。-将通过为网站增加额外的服务器容量来加强这一多媒体增强，以便能够将项目(包括最后的演出)和项目小组(包括迈克·皮尔逊的工作，包括2008年“冬季”项目)创建的多媒体项目成果存档。-将项目网站作为威尔士国家图书馆公共服务部维护的项目嵌入，以鼓励继续使用该网站作为有关极端天气的数字故事平台。这将提高所有项目的产出(学术和非学术)，并通过图书馆丰富的社区参与方案增加传播途径。2.增设项目工作坊该项目将组织两次研讨会。这些将是额外的知识交流活动，扩大与非高等教育合作者的伙伴关系活动。为了最大限度地发挥它们的效力，它们将由阿伯里斯特威斯大学电影、媒体和电视系的罗杰·欧文领导和协助--对表演发展的总结性捕捉，记录工作的决策和发展，以确保其可复制性。这也将提供一种捕捉参与过程的方法，从而能够创造性地解释档案来源材料和基于社区的叙述内容。-社区参与活动，弥合社区、天气和业绩之间的差距，扩大项目迄今所触及的社区，并确保产生更广泛的影响。

SUMMARYThe Snows of Yesteryear: Narrating Extreme Weather is gathering evidence of the impact of extreme weather in order to document and develop awareness of, and collect a vocabulary for, the ways in which people describe their experiences of climate change by gathering archival data, and personal recollections, of the impact of extreme weather events. The data collected via the project will contribute to a lager piece of work to be developed with climate scientists (especially the Met Office ACRE initiative) who are gathering evidence in order to map the way that extreme weather events are documented and described over time. The project will also bring these these materials together digitally, and communicate them to a wider audience via a performance piece developed and realized by Eddie Ladd. The primary focus for outreach and communication by the Snows of Yesteryear project is currently a blog based at the national Library of Wales. With additional resourcing, the project team will expand the integration of digital technologies, and make them central to the remainder of the project in order to capture and archive sources as well as disseminate the outputs of the project. Enhanced website functionality and capacity will be central to the communication of archival reconstruction, textual analysis, oral histories, creative visualisations, story-telling and performance by the project research team. A sophisticated project website will provide the nexus for this material. The additional website functionality to support this will be developed by the Information Technology and Digital Collections staff of the National Library of Wales, and hosted on the Library's high-availability platforms. The web-site will be predicated on an open-source content management system. This will integrate tools for the capture and storage of audio and video in order to gather a record of practice-led outputs, and will also support the uploading of experiences of extreme events in the form of textual, audio and video content. The web-site will become a key node of knowledge dissemination for the project. And, archived by the National Library, it will be sustained as a publically available resource with lasting public impact, embedded in the Library's engagement and outreach activities. In order to enhance the distributed elements of the project, and to create additional project outputs that will add value to this work, the project team have developed some revisions to the project plan that require additional funding of £19,997.59. These will be carried out throughout the extended project, now finishing May 1st, 2013. These modifications are described in detail in the narrative below 1. Enhancements to the project website. - Technical development work will enhance the website by integration audio and video capture tools. This will allow the 'digital storytelling" capacity of the website to be enhanced. - This multimedia enhancement will be augmented by the addition of additional server capacity for the website, to enable archiving of multimedia project outputs created by the project (including the final performance) and project team (including work by Mike Pearson, including the 2008 "Winter" project. - Embedding of the project website as a project maintained by the National Library of Wales Public Services department, to encourage its continued use as a digital storytelling platform around extreme weather. This will enhance all project outputs (academic and non-academic) and increase dissemination routes through the Library's rich programme of community engagement. 2. Additional project workshopsTwo workshops will be organized by the project. These will be additional knowledge exchange activities, extending partnership activities with non-HE collaborators. In order to maximize their effectiveness, they will be led and facilitated by Roger Owen, Department of Film, Media and Television, Aberystwyth University- A summative capture of the performance development, documenting the decision making and development of the work to ensure its replicability. This will also provide a method for capturing the process of engagement that has enabled creative interpretation of archival source materials and community-based narrative content. - A community engagement activity, bridging the gap between community, weather and the performance, and expanding the community that is reached by the project to date and ensuring wider impact.