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George Rodger Biography

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George Rodger was one of the founding members of the highly acclaimed Magnum Photos which was established in 1947. Robert Capa and himself, once photographers for Time & Life Magazine, imagined a photographic career not dictated and copyrighted by magazines, but under their own names. Magnum Photos has now been running for 67 years, Jinx Rodger, George’s wife recalls the early Magnum days with blissful nostalgia and she says “it was sort of like a club,” in conversation with me. Taken from Jon Rodger’s website, George Rodger Photographs, and with inclusions of my other research, here is a short biography … Continue reading George Rodger Biography

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Research: Getty Images

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In 1995, Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein founded Getty Images to bring the fragmented stock photography business into the digital age. And that’s exactly what they did. We were the first company to license imagery online – and have continued to drive the industry forward with breakthrough licensing models, digital media management tools and a comprehensive offering of creative and editorial imagery, microstock, footage and music. Companies and individuals pay Getty Images for their stock photography/licensed work to accompany their business/blog/CD etc. The company prides itself on offering the best digital images to its clients. Therefore, it is of little … Continue reading Research: Getty Images

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Flickr: The Commons

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In conversation with Aaron Guy (my archive guru) he recalled the Sunderland University Photography Conference from 2011 and how some talks/papers may be of use to me. I couldn’t be more grateful for his effort in helping me retrieve this information: he successfully got the webpage of the talk back online to browse. The last section of talks was called: The Versatile Image: Photography in the Era of Web 2.0. Under this heading I uncovered the paper ‘Flickr the Commons: Challenging Perceptions of Photographic Collections? Summary of talk: Social Media Platforms “generate broad interest on a large scale” Social Media Platforms encourages … Continue reading Flickr: The Commons

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Open Access and the Paywall

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An unlikely relationship. Seemingly more like arch-enemies in the digital economic landscape as Open Access activists freely oppose the paywall which restricts the everyman to information that apparently “wants to be free”. Paywalls A paywall does exactly what it says on the tin: you can’t go through the gate unless you pay to get in. That is unless you’re a super activist who digs the tunnel underneath or climbs over the top. Paywalls can be subscriptions, such as to Newspapers. This is becoming increasing more common as advertisers are moving away from Newspaper sites and onto cheaper more trafficked websites … Continue reading Open Access and the Paywall

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Research: The Library of Congress

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The biggest library in the world, the Library of Congress is a publicly funded archive in the USA with “155.3 million items on approximately 838 miles of bookshelves” (Library of Congress Website). In this research I am going to look more closely into: Its funding/budget Its website functionality and design Funding/Budget: In an article from the New York Times the budget from 2012 to 2013 for the Library of Congress was cut 4% offering $598.4 million; although its actual spend was $632.3 million in 2013. Here are two images from the fiscal budget for this year (2014): The article explains that the digitisation … Continue reading Research: The Library of Congress

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Research: What are Commercial/Public Archives?

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In essence, it is exactly what it says on the tin. Commercial archives are archives which are set to make many from its content, whether that be by subscription, auction or buying print copies. Publicly Funded archive are paid for by governments from taxpayers so that information is free. Starting with commercial archives, I have looked at: Magnum Photos Getty Images Time Magazine Two of which are photographic archives and the third a newsprint archive. Although the subject matter is broad, the physical medium is very specialised: Time Magazine’s archive is of its magazines and what that entails: articles. Magnum … Continue reading Research: What are Commercial/Public Archives?

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Research Proposal

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After months of taking a general interest in the future of digital archiving, including the challenges it faces as physical archives are fast approaching their expiration, I have come to my second revised version of my research proposal. The first being very broad: I wanted to look into the technicalities of what it means to have a usable websites for a user to experience the archive and its contents. I found that there was a serious definition between the commercial and publicly funded archives in terms of their design. However, after much deliberation and talking to Aaron Guy (North of … Continue reading Research Proposal

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Time archive review

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Time Magazine has an online archive of its published magazines from March 1923 to present day. Time Magazine was America’s first weekly magazine, established by Henry Luce and Birton Hadden and its first publication was in March 2023. Therefore, the online archive is as substantial as it gets, having content from every year of its publication. Looking at the possible results, nearly 300,000 are from Time U.S the printed magazine and 222,969 from online articles. This is undeniably impressive. However, the print issue articles come at a price: £70 a year to be a little more precise. Although, your first … Continue reading Time archive review

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National Archives and Records Administration – Digitising Archives Research

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    This brings up points of what I am researching: – digital can be easily searched and delivered – digital is vulnerable to new forms (tampering, storage failures) – use digital differently from paper records   Technicalities:   This is really technically in depth; however, the on going debate is how a system is made so that its filing system isn’t corrupted or outdated and that its metadata will aid the update. This is indicative of the fact that archivists have to be extremely technical and up to date, and harder still, forward thinking… This is a lot to … Continue reading National Archives and Records Administration – Digitising Archives Research

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Digitising Archives: A Youtube Investigation

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What better way to find out about which archives are being digitised than going on Youtube. It is interesting how they explain what they are doing with the archive and how it can be accessed by people on the web.   Netherlands digitising books, scanning and processing into word documents   London Pulse   British Library – migrating to different platforms, able to translate scripts etc   Find my Past.co.uk Prepare, clean, scan, type out handwriting (transcribing), create search engine (transcribing) 1911 census- 2km physical shelving; 18million documents; cleaning process; 2 years to transcribe by 300 people   Oxfam http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2013/News/WTP051798.htm … Continue reading Digitising Archives: A Youtube Investigation