by Murphy | Dekeyser Lee | Clopes-Masjuan | Jan 18, 2021 | Articles, Projects, Technology
As for so many people, lockdown has meant huge changes to our working lives. As the conservation and imaging staff on a digitisation project, many aspects of our work rely on physical access to collection items, studios, and equipment, and at first it seemed difficult...
by Hannah Nagle | Nov 25, 2019 | Articles, Technology
Working in digitisation as an Imaging Technician at the British Library, I know the digitisation process is typically a standardised and uniformed procedure. Metamorfoze, the National Programme for the Preservation of Paper Heritage in the Netherlands, provides a set...
by Sam Bartle | Oct 16, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects, Technology
Introduction In June 2019, the East Riding Archives (Beverley, East Yorkshire, England) officially launched its new app, called ‘What Was Here?’. This marked the culmination of a 4-year journey in which we had sought to find new ways of engaging audiences with...
by Alex Green | Jun 17, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Featured, News of interest, Projects, Technology
At a time when the fragility and vulnerability of digital records are increasingly evident, maintaining the trustworthiness of public archives is more important than ever. Video and sound recordings can be manipulated to put words into mouths of people who never said...
by Jarrod Harvey | May 22, 2019 | Articles, Technology
“People have had a lot of trouble getting stuff out of RecordPoint.” This sentence was a little worrying to hear. It was 2015, and our archive was contemplating digital preservation for the first time. We didn’t really know what it was, or how it worked. Neither did...
by Julia Ihnatowicz | Apr 17, 2019 | Archive, Articles, Projects, Technology
The Qatar Digital Library Since 2012, the British Library has been working with the Qatar Foundation and Qatar National Library to create and maintain the Qatar Digital Library. Launched in 2014, this free, bilingual portal hosts a growing archive of previously...
