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Case Studies. Alastair Dunning. Arts and Humanities Data Service, King’s College London. Archive of medieval stained glass Running since 1949 Pilot project introduced digital aspect Tested various parts of projects All types of conditions, environments for digitisation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Case Studies
Arts and Humanities Data Service, King’s College London
Alastair Dunning
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Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
• Archive of medieval stained glass
• Running since 1949
• Pilot project introduced digital aspect
• Tested various parts of projects
• All types of conditions, environments for digitisation
• Workflow much easier to comprehend
• http://ahds.ac.uk/corpus.htm
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Exeter Keystones & Carvings
• Extensive illustrations and information about all figurative sculpture in cathedral
• Example of different deposit
• http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/search.html• Out-sourced work requires careful
management• Specification and communication with
project team• Exeter project stalled because of lack of
understanding
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Plans without documentation
Outsourced WorkOutsourced Work
No quality control for images
Exeter Keystones & Carvings
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The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
• In-house digitisation
• Awareness of colour calibration, editing procedures, surroundings, careful handling
• Equipment purchased
• http://www.diamm.ac.uk
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The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
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• Record of 20Record of 20thth century century constructions with military purposeconstructions with military purpose
• Interoperable with other resourcesInteroperable with other resources
• Specific thesaurus includedSpecific thesaurus included
• http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/cataloguehttp://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue
Metadata … The Defense of Britain
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Metadata … The Defense of Britain
Returns different Returns different metadata metadata according to according to databasedatabase
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Standards … The Newton Project
• Exploring Newton’s ‘non-scientific’ manuscripts• Digitasation extending the boundaries
• Standards are required at several levels
• Detailed ‘Transcription and Tagging Policy’ • xml for footnotes, foreign languages,
abbreviations, revisions, changes in ink
• http://www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk
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Newton
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