As part of our first class in Digital Curation, we completed numerous tasks- including one in which we became digital detectives for the afternoon! Clue were given on a Clues.txt Notepad, in a variety of different digital digital encoding languages- it was our task to use the UTF8 ⇔ Binary, Hex, and Base 64 Converter … Continue reading Digital Detectives-Converting Binary,Hexidecimal and Base 64 to Text
Category: archives
Falkirk Council Archives: Cataloguing the Records of the Soroptimist International of Falkirk
Set within the beautiful grounds of Callendar House and Park, I have recently completed my cataloguing placement at Falkirk Council Archives, run by Falkirk Community Trust. This was a two week placement which forms part of my course requirements in our Description, Cataloguing and Navigation classes. The house itself dates from the 14th century, set … Continue reading Falkirk Council Archives: Cataloguing the Records of the Soroptimist International of Falkirk
Rising from the Ashes: The National Library of Baghdad
‘Each of us who has been wounded […] knows that our lives will always be referenced by the scars and the wound.’ When the literary theorist Maren Linnett uttered these words, it was spoken in reference to an individual’s trauma. However, in the context of this blog, I believe it is important and indeed, applicable … Continue reading Rising from the Ashes: The National Library of Baghdad
Imps in the archive 