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The ‘Beast from the East’ in Photographs

29th Jan 201929th Jan 2019 ~ Rose Whitty ~ Leave a comment

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.

Glasgow views: where’s the value?

26th Jan 201926th Jan 2019 ~ Lucy Janes ~ Leave a comment

I started this photo appraisal and selection task by visiting my large collection of personal photos from around Glasgow. I had to select just three from more than 300 images. How could I decide what to keep?

What gets kept? Appraising photos of the University of Glasgow

26th Jan 201926th Jan 2019 ~ amysolomons ~ Leave a comment

The difficulties of appraising my growing collection of photographs!

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Images from the Rutland Psalter, created 1260. Held in the British Library (Add MS 62925). Leaf through it in the British Library Manuscripts viewer

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Icon graphic: Rutland Psalter, British Library, Add MS 62925 f.85r.

Illustration by A. Hughes, etc. from 'Sing-Song. A nursery rhyme book' by Christina Rossetti. This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection, a set of over 1 million images scanned from out-of-copyright books and released to Flickr Commons by the British Library.

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