Edinburgh City of Print
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Grant Holder:
Professor Alistair McCleery
Edinburgh: City of Print is a joint AHRC and Museum Galleries Scotland funded partnership project between the Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records (SAPPHIRE) and City of Edinburgh Museums. The project aims to highlight Edinburgh’s rich printing and publishing heritage through the online provision of photographs, film and sound recordings relating to the collections of City of Edinburgh Museums.
Edinburgh City of Print www.edinburghcityofprint.org aims to provide access to the printing and publishing collections of the City of Edinburgh Museums. This site gives visitors the opportunity to view previously unseen items from these collections, to understand the history of these key industries that shaped Edinburgh and to discover the working lives behind them
Production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF files for web dissemination, Generation of HTML files from XML data for web-delivery
| Project start date: 2008-10 | Project end date: 2010-01 |
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| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Audio interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Cataloguing and indexing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Indexing | Data analysis |
| Content-based image retrieval | Data analysis |
| Content-based sound retrieval | Data analysis |
| Sound generation | Data capture |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Graphical interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Image enhancement | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Risk management | Strategy and project management |
| Sound compression | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Sound editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Streaming media | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Video editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Video post production | Practice-led research |
| Video and moving image compression | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Curation | Strategy and project management |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Collaborative publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| Image restoration | Data structuring and enhancement |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Museum Galleries Scotland
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
website baker, flickr, YouTube
Source material used:
The project catalogued over 1,500 items from the City of Edinburgh's printing collections. These collections were photographed and made available online. Further context was provided to these collections through the gathering of oral testimony from former Edinburgh printers who recalled their experiences of working within the industry in Edinburgh.
Digital resource created:
The project created a virtual museum available online at www.edinburghcityofprint.org
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG), Waveform Audio file (WAV), TIFF
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Queen Margaret University College |
| Edinburgh Napier University |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| City of Edinburgh Museums |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Professor Alistair McCleery, Ms Helen Clark |
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| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Sarah Bromage |
| Title | Edinburgh City of Print |
| Record created | 2010-05-19 |
| Record updated | 2011-05-11 16:56 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3735 |
| Citation of record | Sarah Bromage: Edinburgh City of Print. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3735> created: 2010-05-19, last updated 2011-05-11 16:56 |