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Digitising William Morris’s Lantern Slides (Part 1)
William Morris Lantern Slide © 2008 The William Morris Society, All rights reserved. Over the coming week we’ll be working with the William Morris Society to digitise their unique collection of...
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Rich pickings in a couple of fascinating posts on the DCC Digital Curation Blog, in which Chris Rusbridge summarises recent discussions on the DCC-Associates email list about appropriate photo image...
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Digitising William Morris’s Lantern Slides (Part 3)
We stumbled upon fascinating facets of lantern slide creation, assembly and ageing processes during digitisation of the William Morris collection. Use of forensic resolutions, true colour and high bit...
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ULCC/Portico/DPC consortium to undertake JISC preservation study
We’ve just heard that a consortium of ULCC, Portico and the Digital Preservation Coalition has been awarded the contract by JISC to undertake a Preservation Study of recent digitisation activities. The...
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BT Archives: Digitisation of Historic Posters
We’ve just completed digitisation of a small series of interesting General Post Office posters for the BT Archives; all of which hover around the WW2 period (1930s to 1950s). These were the six...
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Farewell ‘TASI’, Hello ‘JISC Digital Media’
Photo by Chad Miller On the 5 March I attended the London launch of the rebranding of ‘TASI’ to ‘JISC Digital Media’. Tables were decked with everything from canapés & wine, to a variety of AV and...
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Transcribing Bentham
Did I mention that we are very excited to be contributing to UCL’s Bentham Transcription Initiative. This is an AHRC-funded project to complete the digitisation of the manuscripts of 18th Century...
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Your friendly neighborhood Digital Archives team
In May, the University of London Communications Office invited us to answer a few questions about ourselves for an Intranet article. We thought we’d reproduce some of our answers here, for the benefit...
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