“Don’t appraise what it looks like. Appraise what it feels like.” Not a quote by David Alan Harvey.
Law of Diminishing Photographic Returns (Appraisal Task)
Author: darrw
“The bytes are bottles on the mantel; now shoot ’em with your gun”
… said Dr Paul Gooding when analogising our Digital Curation lab task on simulating file corruption. Cover photo taken from Episode 20 “Paranoia”, Season 3, Brooklyn Nine-nine (NBC)
How to do a grand jeté in an archive
The answer is don't - any part of your body could hit anything. Cataloguing video cassettes is something more sensible to do, and so it is what this blogpost is about.
Flames turned museum into ashes — where memories continue to sparkle
The catastrophic museum fire in Brazil should not be the end: could it retell the story of a rebirthing phoenix?
Imps in the archive 