| Photo courtesy of UC Rivaraside |
In a push to preserve the past, the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) color film Emergency Project (CFEP) is working to save 35 mm color slide collection of architecture from all over the world. The project began in 2016 after the realization that more than 1.2 million slides collected by the 20th -century scholars, protectionists, design physicians and photographers are at risk of total damage and destruction. Now the project is being led California rivaraside universityThe CFEP has been expanded, with the help of a grant from the national settlement (NEH) collection and reference resources for humanities, providing more resources to save these historical slide collections.
Project Director, Project Director and Visual Resource Curator in the History of Arts Department of UCR, Sonaja Sacli-Roveland, Jackie Spaford, East UCSB, Morin Burns, East are leading the project along with Executive Director of YCI and Ben Thomas. Sah Eight universities across the United States are also participating. The new grant provides significant funds through 2027, allowing visual resources professionals, archives, librarians and faculty members to process large -scale collections.
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The principal investigator of the project, Sonja Sekeli-Roveland, sits next to a collection of slides. Photo courtesy of UC Rivaraside |
Saving these collections is quite an incredible venture, given how large each individual collection can be. “Often, these collections can run as high as 30,000 or more slides-and 150,000 slides,” says Sekli-Roveland. Consequently, they are getting somewhat selective which is digitized. “When living with living sah donor-yogistors, we ask the donor to identify the high-value of the material based on A) What is unique in their collection, and b) images they feel That will greatly improve the visual records of a particular place. “When work is done with an estate collection, the project directors and/or consortium partners will work with followers, which is on the basis of formal properties, physical status, unique material and expertise of the subject field, on the basis of grains, in part, Will work. “
“Often, these collections can run as high as 30,000 or more slides-and 150,000 slides,” says Sekli-Roveland.
Of course, digitizing historical work involves far more than scanning in slides. Sekely-Roland reported that time management and resource management are two of the two most important challenges. “There is an incredible time invested in researching the subject material of each image to produce accurate, granulated, and highly structured embedded metadata to access digital images online.” The team has developed an assembly-lin-like processing model for organizations such as organizations such as works, a discovery aid, cleaning and archival housing, digitization, details, online publication, online publication and intellectual property issues. ,
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A slide from the CFEP collection. Photo courtesy of UC Rivaraside |
According to the project observation, the slides were taken by SAH members, who took a picture of “the atmosphere created as subject experts in the field of architecture”. The result is a unique perspective that shows, in part, “Which building elements have done advanced work in the area or have changed the course of architectural history.”
The CFEP collection consists of structures whose creators are known and unknown. They portray specific buildings, which range from city and road scenes as well as modest to grand. There are broad, overall visuals and small details occupied by buildings, which create a more complete picture, which “deepens the understanding of a structure and provides insight into physical, cultural, political, psychological and/or economic references In which there was a work of architecture and there are tangible reflections of human experience. “
All new digital images for the project will be available to the public through SAH’s open-access Online image databaseSupport. At the time of writing, the database has 4,229 items associated with CFEP. The current Neh Grant aims to digitize 10,500–12,000 new images, which is available, expanding extensively.
