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CHDS DAMS Internship Experience TAGS: | | | | | | | | | Over the past 6 months, I have had the pleasure of working with the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service team as a DAMS (Digital Asset Management System: software used to manage …Continue reading →

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The Skene Album – An artistic partnership between author and artist TAGS: | | | | | | | James Skene was a close friend of one of Scotland’s greatest and most influential writers. By profession  he was a lawyer, but he was also a keen amateur artist. Skene …Continue reading →

Dong Ding The Boundary of Balance – Documentary Condition Photography The Art Collection acquired one piece from Dong Ding’s sculptural jewellery collection Boundary of Balance; a series of works which explores the relationship and tension between balance and imbalance.  Each …Continue reading →

2nd C. Sculpture to Star Wars Props: 3D, a Force Awakens? During a photogrammetry training session with Clara Molina Sanchez, we were recommended to choose objects with a matt surface, small to medium in size, and which didn’t have many holes …Continue reading →

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Paolozzi: mosaics to maquettes. Recently Art Collections Curator, Neil Lebeter, and I made a short video interview with Professor Bob Fisher and Phd student Alex Davies of the Informatics Department. Bob and Alex have …Continue reading →

Lord Elgin Records 19th Century China One of the works in the ECA Rare Book Collection that places us firmly in a place and time in history is a book of photographs taken around the time …Continue reading →

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Digitisation: Eduardo Paolozzi Mosaics I have spent the past 6 weeks digitising mosaic fragments here in the DIU. Recently removed from Tottenham Court Road Tube Station, London, these mosaics were once part of a …Continue reading →

Dating a Book For the last couple of months I have had the pleasure of both volunteering with the DIU and now working a bit more seriously through my work placement as part …Continue reading →

Grand Tour Slide Show Some time ago we digitised the hand coloured glass slides in the Cavaye collection, but we didn’t have time to do the much larger black and white part of the …Continue reading →

Roslin Slide Collection – Composition Over the course of digitising the Roslin Slide Collection, amongst all the slides of tables, charts and the like, it has been the images of people, and their animals, that …Continue reading →

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Default utility Image Hill and Adamson Collection: an insight into Edinburgh’s past My name is Phoebe Kirkland, I am an MSc East Asian Studies student, and for...
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Default utility Image Cataloguing the private papers of Archibald Hunter Campbell: A Journey Through Correspondence My name is Pauline Vincent, I am a student in my last year of a...
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