Digitization at the City of Vancouver Archives

Background

Major J.S. Matthews at his desk, 1941

City records

Detail from Plan showing lands occupied in Stanley Park near Brockton Point, 1923. City Engineer's Office. AM1594-: MAP 6

Private-sector records

Evidence?

111117-A-BE343-010 (cc) Arctic Wolves 1/25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team

City of Vancouver Archives Blog

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Search for photograph – full description

Search for photograph – large image

Search for photograph – full resolution

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Copyright – thumbnail excerpt

Glass negative

Colour negative as a negative

Colour negative as a positive

Cellulose acetate negative in good shape

Cellulose acetate negative – shrunken

Panorama negative

Up to 8 feet long!

Film prep: measuring shrinkage

2” quad videotape

Audio digitization

Audio decision list

Map scanner

Turning Analogue Records into Data

• GeoTiff• PNG• KML• etc

Maps: Map Warper

Vanmap

Page from 1912 Fire Insurance Plan

Page from 1912 Fire Insurance Plan - detail

Library & Archives Canada’s copy

DV migrator

DV transfer analysis

Video transfer error

McLennan & McFeely Catalogue

Elevator, Roof & Barn Paint

Bartholomew Plan on Internet Archive

Segmentation for OCR

Texts: OCR to plain text

Texts: add structure to plain text

Akoma Ntoso XML markup sample

xml html

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Thanks to our digitization funders!

• Friends of the Vancouver City Archives• National Archival Development Program (and

predecessors)• B.C. History Digitization Program• Bing Thom Architects• Dunbar Residents Association• Vancouver 125 Program• Vancouver Historical Society• Archival Community Digitization Program• Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions• City of Vancouver