Hi Chris, would certainly be interested to hear more about the Museum
digitisation. Just to see what sort of commitment would be required.
regards, Christine
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 11:11, Chris Shepheard <
chris.shepheard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Tony,
I’ll arrange a meeting soon and go for Monday or Friday.
Just wondering if any of this group could help with the Museum of Farnham
digitising if they were interested?
There will be lots to do on the Herald project eventually but I suspect
there will be a gap before that really takes off.
Chris
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Would be good to meet up, Chris. I would only make an appeal that it’s not
on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, as I work those days.
I would be happy to volunteer in taking the project forward but would need
to balance that with the job and the Museum project to digitise its photo
collection.
Tony
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*Subject:* [heraldnegindex] Herald negative index - what's next?
Dear all,
Amazingly you have now indexed in excess of 85,000 and I really think the
end is in sight. There is still one “book” unallocated so let me know if
you’d like to take it on.
I hope we can all meet up properly soon but it would be good if the
weather was slightly better so we can meet outside if possible. If that
doesn’t look like happening soon we can all go to the park café which is
well spaced inside, warm with a wood burner and has free parking!
However where do we go from here?
Interestingly I have a meeting with a local volunteer in photo research at
the IWM soon as there is a possibility she may be interested in helping to
form a project team to organise and lead the main digitisation project –
keep your fingers crossed!
But for the immediate future I have got permission for one person at a
time to accompany me on visits to the actual newspaper archive at the
Herald to assist with searching for stories that enquirers are asking
about. I have been doing this on a roughly two-monthly basis for the past
couple of years (Rosemary has joined me on a couple of occasions) and it is
interesting if eye-watering work.
So if any of you are interested in joining in please let me know (sorry it
can’t be more than one at a time because of space reasons – it will not
involve going into the cellar though!)
Likewise in the future there may also be a possibility of visiting the
Museum of Farnham store to access the negatives (the ones you’ve been
indexing!) so that they can be scanned for enquirers. However that is a
rather cool experience but still very interesting. It is dusty and there
are no seats! Again let me know if you’d like to join me.
That’s about it for now but please let me know your feelings,
Chris
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