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Lost world: Digitizing the Fürer -Haimendorf Collection

Lost world: Digitizing the Fürer -Haimendorf Collection. Susannah Rayner. Christoph von Fürer -Haimendorf. Born in Vienna in 1909 1931 – PhD in anthropology from the University of Vienna Studies at LSE 1936 – first trip to the Naga Hills 1938 – marries Betty Barnardo

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Lost world: Digitizing the Fürer -Haimendorf Collection

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  1. Lost world:Digitizing the Fürer-Haimendorf Collection Susannah Rayner

  2. Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf • Born in Vienna in 1909 • 1931 – PhD in anthropology from the University of Vienna • Studies at LSE • 1936 – first trip to the Naga Hills • 1938 – marries Betty Barnardo • 1950 – Professor of Anthropology at SOAS • 1975-77 – President of the RAI • Died in London in 1995

  3. Welcome to Nagaland Raid on Pangsha J P Mills

  4. The problem • Large and varied archive • Cataloguing • Specialist expertise • Funding • Format Access to the collection before digitisation

  5. The solution • Expertise • Opportunity & enterprise • Funding

  6. Project aims • To provide access to the photographs, while preserving the physical condition of the original material. • To create high resolution images of the originals photographs • To use the project as a pilot for future digitisation projects at SOAS.

  7. Process • Project team • Digitization • Metadata input • Website design • Upload

  8. Methodology • Initial assessment • Cleaning and scanning • Entry of technical and administrative metadata • Entry of descriptive metadata • Checksum generation • Ingestion to Web site

  9. Equipment • A Nikon LS-5000 35mm film scanner attached to a PC workstation was used for all scanning • Vuescan was used to acquire the image • Lightroom was used for metadata entry Nikon LS-5000 35mm film scanner

  10. Challenges • In-house versus out-sourcing • Working off-site • Data storage and transmission • Time allocation for project management • HR

  11. Resultshttp://digital.info.soas.ac.uk/ • Images online • Fully catalogued • Free research resource • Preservation • Digitisation expertise • Sustainability and strategic management • Launch

  12. Lessons learnt • Don’t be afraid to ask • Be realistic in your aims • Project Management is a demanding, full-time role • Technology is not the issue • Invest in training • Sustainability • Team membership • In-house v. outsourcing • Quality v quantity

  13. ‘What I saw in 1936 and 1937 is now a page in India’s history, to be remembered and recorded but never to be observed again’. Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, 1962

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