CILIPS North East Branch event

The next CILIPS North East Branch event (held jointly with Grampian

Information) will be 'By George she's got it - enhancing and improving

access through the migration of digital objects.' This presentation

will discuss the recent migration of the George Washington Wilson

photographic archive to the University of Aberdeen's digital asset

management software.

As one of Scotland's premier photographers George Washington Wilson and

his firm captured images not only of Aberdeen and the North East but

the whole of Scotland and most of England, as well as parts of Wales

and Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, Morocco, the South of Spain, and

(especially) colonial South Africa and Australia. Thousands of those

images are now available for all to see at http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/.

The project has enhanced the level of detail visible in the images

themselves and the basic metadata created when the archive was first

digitised. This twilight session will include a look at images from the

collection as well as the crosswalks which have enabled us to increase

the granularity of our metadata while still allowing it to be harvested

in Dublin Core.

This free event will take place in the Seminar Room at the Queen Mother

Library on the University of Aberdeen's Old Aberdeen Campus (see

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/maps/old-aberdeen.php) at 16:00 on Tuesday

28 June 2011.