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Daguerreobase: Digitizing photographic heritage

Author(s) -

Călina Bârzu

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

studia universitatis babeș-bolyai digitalia

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2559-6721

DOI - 10.24193/subbdigitalia.2017.2.08

Subject(s) - crowdsourcing , cultural heritage , circulation (fluid dynamics) , work (physics) , scale (ratio) , digitization , visual arts , world wide web , multimedia , computer science , history , art , geography , engineering , archaeology , cartography , telecommunications , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering

The tendency to digitize and create online archives has recently become more common among cultural institutions. Digitizing collections and crowdsourcing the information bring more benefits to museums and the public because the digital medium facilitates a wider exposure and the circulation of a more consistent body of work. In the same line of practice, the Daguerreobase Project is a conservation initiative to digitally archive daguerreotypes on a large scale.

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