This week in Digital Curation we were asked to appraise some of our own photographs with particular criteria in mind. I chose to look at some photos I took last year in snowy Edinburgh.
The ‘Beast from the East’ in Photographs
Author: Rose Whitty
Let’s Wreck All the Files!
For our experiment in Digital Curation, we chose to test which of the file types responded the most dramatically to a minimal levels of "shooting" and "corruption". We used the programme "shotGun.exe" to corrupt various file types including text files, image files and audio files. To do this we allocated each of us four or … Continue reading Let’s Wreck All the Files!
Exposition at the WYHC
Is exposition just for museums? This post looks at a few of the methods the West Yorkshire History Centre use to promote their collections.
Curtains Up! Cataloguing Theatre Papers at the WYHC
Recently I spent two weeks at the West Yorkshire History Centre, a fantastic archive in Wakefield, England.
Up in Smoke: Norwich Central Library
On 1st August, 1994, Norwich Central Library caught fire and burned for four hours. Thousands of books and historic documents were lost. Is there anything we can learn from this disaster?
Imps in the archive 