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Catching The Rain

Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley

Category: Vintage photos

The fascinating world of vintage and antique photos, magic lantern slides, daguereotypes and postcards

29 October 201829 October 2018

Representing the ‘average’ soldier from the First World War

How this came about Back in January 2018 I posted some of the image-based work I had been doing on Imperial War Museum’s Bond of Sacrifice collection. As part of this I sent out a tweet with a simple animation. As a result I got chatting to Giuseppe Sollazzo (@puntofisso) Read more …

Technology, Vintage photos, 2 Comments
18 February 201418 February 2014

CulturePics – custom images from cultural collections

A few weeks ago I undertook a quick challenge to come up with something to show how cultural collection APIs could be used to very quickly deliver simple tools aimed at reaching far beyond typical audiences, especially in the creative sector. Without much time to spare it had to be Read more …

On the web, Technology, Vintage photos, No Comments
18 October 201011 March 2011

More automatic tagging tools discovered and tested

I’ve just discovered two more services – Alchemy and Zemanta – and also a couple of extra WordPress plugins to use these and automatically suggest and add tags.  One simply uses the Alchemy API, but by far the most advanced I’ve uncovered yet is Simple Tags which pulls in tags Read more …

Technology, Vintage photos, No Comments
20 January 201021 January 2015

IIIF Test

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Technology, Vintage photos, 1 Comment
3 March 20093 March 2009

Hull Trawler Challenge success!

Last Thursday I launched the Hull Trawler Challenge, featuring 70+ images of life on board two Hull fishing vessels from c. 1910. It’s been a great success. We’ve narrowed down the dates, identified some more of the ships, and even had someone come forward who could well be the grandson Read more …

Vintage photos, No Comments
15 February 200715 February 2007

Multum In Parvo

5523 You’d have thought that a foray into Latin would mean I was about to say something profound, but in contrast Multum in Parvo, or “much in a small space”, is actually the name of the old lawnmower shown in the picture! It was made by Green’s in the late Read more …

Plants & gardens, Vintage photos, No Comments

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