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The Courtauld’s Witt and Conway Photographic Libraries: Two approaches to digitisation

2020/01/01 by Tom Bilson · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage #Archaeological Research and Protection #Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation

paper · doi:10.1017/alj.2019.38

openalex publication_date 2020/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

The Courtauld Institute of Art is two years into a digitisation project of the Witt and Conway photograph archives (in addition to other, smaller collections) – a massive project that will make accessible over three million images of works of art from these internationally important photo collections. This article looks closely at the digitisation project and in particular, at the small army of volunteers assembled to carry out the digitisation and how this element of public engagement is essential to the success of the project.

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