Case Studies

Arts and Humanities Data Service, King’s College London

Alastair Dunning

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

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

Plans without documentation

Outsourced WorkOutsourced Work

No quality control for images

Exeter Keystones & Carvings

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

The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

• 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

Metadata … The Defense of Britain

Returns different Returns different metadata metadata according to according to databasedatabase

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

Newton

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