The difficulties of appraising my growing collection of photographs!
What gets kept? Appraising photos of the University of Glasgow
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.
Virtual Reality and Immersive Technologies for Interpreting Cultural Heritage in Catalonia
This lecture by Albert Sierra from the Catalan Cultural Heritage Agency challenges us to ask whether the amazing interactions offered by new technologies are necessarily the best way for people to engage with the past?
“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
Digital Decoding
Difficulties of decoding: Software doesn't always work Specialist software and knowledge is needed to be able to decode Decoded Questions and Answers (& how we did it): The first question couldn't be decoded due to broken software. The second question was decoded using UTF8 hexadecimal converter. The question was: What was the first full length … Continue reading Digital Decoding
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