Record the past, archive for the future
This blog post is part of an assignment to appraise some of our photo’s using the stages of appraisal we have discussed in our digital curation lectures. As part of this assignment, I picked seven images I have taken and then cut these images sown to three images and analyze why these may or may not be … Continue reading Appraising photographs
27th January marks Holocaust Memorial Day, a national day dedicated to remembering those who suffered under Nazi persecution. In the 74 years that have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau millions have been educated about the past to create a safer future. " The Holocaust threatened the fabric of civilisation, and genocide must still be … Continue reading The Power of Archives in Remembering the Holocaust
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
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!
As part of my MA in information management & preservation at Glasgow University, it requires us to take part in a 2-week work placement. The aim of the placement is to catalogue part of an archival collection. For this, I was sent to The Ballast Trust, a repository for family business archives which have been … Continue reading The Knox Family Collection.
Is exposition just for museums? This post looks at a few of the methods the West Yorkshire History Centre use to promote their collections.
Recently I spent two weeks at the West Yorkshire History Centre, a fantastic archive in Wakefield, England.
Imps in the archive 