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Historical Photographs of Chinathe journey towards sustainability and utility
Professor Robert Bickers and Jamie CarstairsDepartment of History (Historical Studies)
Dr Simon PriceIT Services (Research IT)
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Part 1The collection
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Cultural Revolution, 1966-69
Destruction of China’s heritage and records of it
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Guiding principles and practice
• Open Access• Free• Searchable, … enough• CC licence for low-res, but can relay usage
requests for high-res• We want them to be used
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Users include• Teachers and researchers• Interdisciplinary researchers and students
• science, computer science• Publishers• Museums and galleries• UK Embassy in China• Heritage enthusiasts and restorers
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Exhibitions& reuse
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Part 2Technical Challenges
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• Research Data Storage Facility (RDSF)
• Each PI allocated 5TB "forever"• Secure storage, data sharing and
data publication with DOI
Historical Photographs of China was the first
collection to be stored in Bristol's RDSF
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Bespoke legacy systems
hpc.vcea.net
visualisingchina.net
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Towards a standard sustainable system
• Tried Omeka but found too restrictive for collection.
• Drupal more flexible and larger user community.• Still a one-off solution.• Visualising China would be
another one-off instance.• Future: institutional Digital
Asset Management (DAM)
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Website www.hpcbristol.net
Visualising China www.visualisingchina.net
Blog www.visualisingchina.net/blog
中国历史老照片 weibo.com/hpcbristol
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