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Dinah Eastop
Design Online: extending access to the BT Design Register
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What is the BT Design Register? 6 series, 1839-1991 11,122 volumes or boxes
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Why was the BT Design Register established? To confer copyright protection to designs registered by proprietorsRegisters (small volumes) with the text record of registration:name and address of proprietor; date of registration; design numberRepresentations (pasted in large volumes or loose in boxes) with representations of the registered designs
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Where? Worldwide: proprietors and markets
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How are designs represented? Representations of the designs take many forms photographs, drawings, paintings, samples and artefacts
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Collection management for preservation and access
• 11,122 orderable units (volumes or boxes) • some volumes weigh more than 25kg • nearly 3 million designs in wide range of materials & forms
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Access * Find* Retrieve* Present
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Focus: BT43/BT44Design Register series for 1842-1884 BT44 = registers x 38 - name-richBT43 = 432 large volumes filled with representations of the designs
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BT43/BT44 = access challenge: designs registered and arranged according to 14 classes of materials and products:metal, wood, glass, earthenware, paper hangings [wallpaper], carpets and 8 textile classes: printed shawls, other shawls, yarn, printed fabrics, furnitures [printed fabrics with larger pattern), other fabrics, damasks, and lace
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Wide range of materials, inc. embossed leather, soap, mirror glass
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BT43/416 ‘Lace’ 1842-1843
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Consultation with users and potential users essential to link registration information with representation via the design number
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Find: improve online resources transcription & cataloguing of BT44 registers
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BT44 registers transcribed, catalogued & online 2012 = record year for release of online resources
The biggest contribution = BT43/BT44 Design Register releases: 335,311 items in BT 44
406,411 items in BT 43
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Find: improve online resources transcribe text on/alongside representations User Participation Project – 10% of BT 43
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Example of additional text ‘The Flying Steam Company to China in Twenty-Four Hours Certain.’ Design registered 15 May 1843
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Next steps? Further transcription
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Conservation of volumes and representations (designs)
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Present designs on-line. How?
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300 mid-Victorian ceramic designs and other curiositieshttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/designregisters/
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Explore: RTI – polynomial texture mapping PTM an image capture and processing technique
virtual re-lighting & zoom in
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Explore: RTI – polynomial texture mapping PTM lighting from above x raking light & zoom
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Explore online: RTI/PTMhttp://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/author/deastop/
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Explore online: RTI/PTMhttp://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/texture-mapping-part-three/#more-8644
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Explore online: RTI/PTMhttp://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/capturing-and-exploring-texture/#more-8178 - publications
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Online delivery – image capture - challenges
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Online delivery of nearly 3 million imagesOption - intuitive image-browsing ?
150+ images per screen view; can be sorted
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Conclusion: Integrated approach to access, preservation and development
Development of resources & services
Access Preservation
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AcknowledgementsThe Clothworkers’ FoundationThe Arts and Humanities Research Council
The archivists, artists, conservators, designers and historians who contributed to the consultation events
Volunteers and colleagues at The National Archives
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