You might also be interested in knowing about a WWI Centenary project that
Europeana is doing -
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en (That's not the
final site BTW) I believe they're trying to collate similar records from
cultural institutions across Europe to be able to tell the story of the same
events from all sides' own records. Perhaps that's a potential tie-in with
the UK project. Just keep it in mind :-)
It all ties together - the people at Oxford University Computing Service who
are involved with the Europeana centenary project are the same people who
are working on this bid with the academics at Birmingham.
Chris