A small gathering of Bradford locals and historians, local curators, heritage professionals, and project researchers working together to pin images from the Bradford Industrial Museum
collections to specific locations on a digital map of Bradford.
The goal is to create a large map of a range of different historic data types, showcasing the rich history of Bradford, and this event will enable images to be integrated into the final product. Once created, the map of newly geo-located photographs will add knowledge to the **Bradford Industrial Museum collection.
Content Notes
Uncertainty, inconsistencies, change, mistakes
- What do we do with mistakes we find in the image labelling?
- What to do about inconsistencies in the source material?
- How do we search when the image description is wrong, or we don’t have one at all?
- How to deal with built environment that has changed?
- How do we deal with locations we are not certain about?
- How do we take the analogue world into the digital? Images taken on film are now digital without their original context (contact sheets) = analogue information is lost.
- Decisions about which remnants of the analogue make it into the digital version are taken by different players at different times.
- How do we document the history of an image? Originally taken for..., then used for..., now in archive because of...
- Would be good to document different versions of image description (including date) to show how knowledge about the image has developed.
Deciding on details, what to include - ‘Are we done?’
- How do we decide what the important bit in the picture is? Which do we locate?
- Are we putting the pin on what is on the picture or do we geo-locate where the picture was taken from?
- How do we link two images of the same thing taken from two different angles?
- What do you do when you have a lot of images taken in the same place on different occasions? Can you link whole folders of images to one location?
- Include angle the picture was taken from in the image description.
- Aerial photography is harder because we don’t know the angles.
- Include screenshot of Google Streetview of where something used to be.