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The Impact of Digitization on Photographic Heritage
Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities,
King’s College London
Twitter: @SimonTanner
01/02/2015 17:45 ENC Public Talk 19 February 2013 1
Digital Humanities:
the application of digital technology to humanities disciplines
reflection upon the impact of digital media upon humanity
> 50 academics & researchers
~ £2.5 million research income per annum
>5 million digital objects, 130+projects
200+million hits over 5 years: 2009-2013
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www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/us-art.html
Charging Models & Rights Strategy for Images in Museums
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www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/inspiring.html
Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship
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The Balanced Value Impact Model
http://simon-tanner.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/when-crowdsourcing-was-called.html
Telecrofting - a tale of PuffinsShetland Isles Museum and Archives
http://photos.shetland-museum.org.uk/
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“the daguerreotype image was as fragile as a butterfly’s wing, fleeting and much more difficult to reproduce than an engraving. There was a general consensus that photography would become a force only once it could produce durable, infinitely repeatable images...”
Aubenas, S., ‘The photograph in print. Multiplication and stability of the image’. In: M. Frizot (editor), A new history of photography. Köln (Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft),1998, pp. 225-231.
Where we started from
Retrat d'estudi d'una dona joveamb un llibre a les mans ,1839Courtesy of Ajuntament de Girona on Europeana
How many photos have ever been taken?http://blog.1000memories.com/94-number-of-photos-ever-taken-digital-and-analog-in-shoebox
What happened next? ~3 Trillion Photos
Approx. 250 billion photos have been uploaded to Facebook, and roughly
350 million photos are uploaded every day
The Attention Economy
We will compete:
– for attention,
– for eyeballs looking at our collections and resources,
– for time, funds & engagement from our communities.
The Economics of DigitisationEuropean museums house >485 million photographs
Library collections > 34 million
Archives > 8.3 million
Approximately 90% of the photographic record is recorded as orphaned
“Based on 8.64m photographs (30% of the total estimated un-digitised holdings)... can estimate the total cost range between €14m and €19.44m to digitise 8.64m photographs across European libraries. “
“of all of our estimates, this one is perhaps prone to the greatest margin of error “
The Cost of Digitising Europe’s Cultural Heritage A Report for the Comitédes Sages of the European Commission Prepared by Nick Poole, the Collections Trust November 2010http://nickpoole.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/digiti_report.pdf
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Curation Challenges & Unfunded Mandates
Digitisation
Web Archiving
Collection Development
Material heritage
Intellectual
heritage
Digital Preservation
Virtual
heritage
Web 2.0 /
Interactive heritage
User Generated Content
Born digital
Preservation
&
Conservation
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A Digital Death Spiral?
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“digitisation = funding”
“Digital is everything today”
“who knows how much it’ll cost, but digital’s bound to be wonderful”
“Planning is so 20th Century, let’s be Agile”
“cos our competition / Google / my mate is doing it”
“cos if we build it, they will come!”
Signs you are in the Digital Death Spiral
“the measurable outcomes arising from the existence of a digital resource that demonstrate a change in the life or life opportunities of the community”
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www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/impact.html
A Glance at the Future
“things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents’ have insufficient ‘now’ to stand on.
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only... the spinning of the given moment's scenarios.”
William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
© BBC
The advantages of setting your data free
We have 125,000 art works available in high resolution. Anything you want, you can do with it...
So now we can say “I love Rijks”, the Rijksmuseum was a very dull, traditional museum and now we can say proudly “I love Rijks”...
So if you think about impact then maybe love is the biggest impact. Peter Gorgels
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW17d-OQsIs
I love Rijks
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The Impact of Digitization on Photographic Heritage
Simon Tanner
Department of Digital Humanities,
King’s College London
Twitter: @SimonTanner
01/02/2015 17:45 ENC Public Talk 19 February 2013 23