Book Series
- Open Field Guides Series vol. 1
- ISSN Print: 2514-2496
- ISSN Digital: 2514-250X
Copyright
Jody Butterworth; Andrew Pearson; Patrick Sutherland; Adam Farquhar; Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapter’s authors.Published On
2018-04-16ISBN
Language
- English
Print Length
192 pages (viii + 184)Dimensions
Weight
Media
OCLC Number
1037803538LCCN
2019452733BIC
- AJG
- GM
- GP
BISAC
- SOC019000
- PHO007000
- SOC024000
- REF020000
LCC
- Z701.3.C65
Keywords
- scholarly digitisation project
- guide
- British Library
- Endangered Archives Programme
- EAP
- archive digitisation
- endangered archives
Remote Capture
Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
- Patrick Sutherland (editor)
- Adam Farquhar (editor)
- Jody Butterworth (editor)
- Andrew Pearson (editor)
This is a must-read how-to guide if you are planning to embark on a scholarly digitisation project. Tailored to the specifications of the British Library’s EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) projects, it is full of sound, practical advice about planning and carrying out a successful digitisation project in potentially challenging conditions.
From establishing the scope of the project, via practical considerations about equipment, work routines, staffing, and negotiating local politics, to backing up your data and successfully completing your work, Remote Capture walks you through every stage. Bursting with helpful hints, advice and experiences from people who have completed projects everywhere around the globe from Latin America to Africa to Asia, this book offers a taste of the challenges you might encounter and the best ways to find solutions.
With a particular focus on the process of digitisation, whether using a camera or a scanner, Remote Capture is invaluable reading for anybody considering such a project. It will be particularly useful to those who apply for an EAP grant, but the advice in these pages is necessary for anyone wondering how to go about digitising an archive.
Endorsements
The authors share first-hand experiences of digitisation in a wide variety of environments. This book contains invaluable practical guidance on how to expect the unexpected and deliver quality results in challenging situations.
Andreas Nef
Technical Lead, Docuteam GmbH and Digital Archive Consultant supporting Swisspeace and others in countries including Sierra Leone, Tunisia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Additional Resources
These resources will be updated by the British Library as appropriate.
Digital Appendix 1. Practical Methods for Digitisation
Digital Appendix 2. Using Electronic Flash
Digital Appendix 3. Digitisation Process Notes
Digital Appendix 4. Costed Equipment List
Contents
Foreword
(pp. 9–10)- Adam Farquhar
Acknowledgements
(pp. 11–14)- Jody Butterworth
- Andrew Pearson
- Patrick Sutherland
- Adam Farquhar
Introduction
(pp. 15–18)- Jody Butterworth
1. Planning the project
(pp. 19–40)- Andrew Pearson
- Patrick Sutherland
3. Image standards
(pp. 93–112)- Elizabeth Hunter
4. Collection care and document handling
(pp. 113–120)- Flavio Marzo
5. A workflow for digitisation
(pp. 121–138)- Jody Butterworth
- Andrew Pearson
- Patrick Sutherland
- Adam Farquhar
6. On the ground
(pp. 139–170)- Jody Butterworth
- Andrew Pearson
- Patrick Sutherland
- Adam Farquhar
Conclusion
(pp. 171–174)- Jody Butterworth
Contributors
Patrick Sutherland
(editor)Patrick Sutherland is an independent photographer and former Professor of Documentary Photography at the University of the Arts London. For over two decades Patrick has been documenting the culturally Tibetan communities of the Spiti Valley in North India. The project has led to numerous exhibitions and two books: Spiti and Disciples of a Crazy Saint. The latter concerns the Buchen, travelling lay religious theatre performers, exorcists, musicians and healers unique to Spiti, whose material culture is the focus of Sutherland's two Endangered Archive Programme grants, EAP548 and EAP749.
Adam Farquhar
(editor)Adam Farquhar directs the Endangered Archives Programme. He is also Head of Digital Scholarship at the British Library, where he and his team focus on establishing services for researchers that take full advantage of the possibilities presented by digital collections and data across all formats and subjects. Adam has led several major research efforts and established the digital preservation and data programmes at the British Library. He was a founding member of the International Image Interoperability (IIIF) Consortium executive committee; founding President of DataCite; and founding President of the Open Preservation Foundation. He has been responsible for the Library's maps, newspaper, photographic, audio and moving image collections. Before joining the Library, he was the knowledge management architect for Schlumberger and research scientist at the Stanford University Knowledge Systems Laboratory.
Jody Butterworth
(editor)Jody Butterworth attended the International School of Geneva with students from 80 different countries and it is very probably this happy experience that has shaped her interests. She has spent seven years living and working across Asia and whilst in Mongolia she became inspired to pursue a career in cultural heritage. Jody became EAP Curator in 2012 and she considers it an incredibly rewarding job.
Andrew Pearson
(editor)Andrew Pearson is a Senior Heritage Consultant with AECOM. He also holds Research Associate status at Brunel University. His doctoral and early-career research focused on Roman Britain, while his current research addresses the historical archaeology of the Atlantic slave trade, with particular reference to the island of St Helena and the Anglophone Caribbean. His projects for the Endangered Archives Programme comprise EAP524 (St Helena), EAP596 (Anguilla), EAP688 and EAP1013 (both St Vincent) and EAP794 (Nevis).