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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)
Part 1The collection
Cultural Revolution, 1966-69
Destruction of China’s heritage and records of it
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
Users include• Teachers and researchers• Interdisciplinary researchers and students
• science, computer science• Publishers• Museums and galleries• UK Embassy in China• Heritage enthusiasts and restorers
Exhibitions& reuse
Part 2Technical Challenges
• 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
Bespoke legacy systems
hpc.vcea.net
visualisingchina.net
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)
Website www.hpcbristol.net
Visualising China www.visualisingchina.net
Blog www.visualisingchina.net/blog
中国历史老照片 weibo.com/hpcbristol
HistoricalPhotographsofChina
twitter.com/vischina