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
Category: Digital Curation
Glasgow views: where’s the value?
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
The difficulties of appraising my growing collection of photographs!
Law of Diminishing Photographic Returns (Appraisal Task)
“Don’t appraise what it looks like. Appraise what it feels like.” Not a quote by David Alan Harvey.
“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)
Testing, testing… and decoding
Digital Curation week one and our mission was to break a lot of files and decode some clues; could we do it? Tessa, Matt, Musa and Lucy had a go...
Digital Detectives-Converting Binary,Hexidecimal and Base 64 to Text
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
Imps in the archive 