Monday, August 26, 2019

The British School at Rome Library and Archive Digital Collections

[First posted in AWOL  27 February 2013, updated 26 August 2019]

The British School at Rome Library and Archive Digital Collections
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In 2007, The Getty Foundation awarded the BSR Archive a grant to fund the arrangement and description of part of the J.B. Ward-Perkins photographic collection and the creation of this website which was launched in November 2009.

It will include all BSR Library and Archive digital collections, not only Photographs but also other resources: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts. As funding becomes available collections are digitized, catalogued and added to the website.

The different phases of the project are listed below (click on headings for more information):

- PRE-CATALOGUING

- CATALOGUING

- DIGITIZATION

- METADATA STANDARDS FOR DIGITAL COLLECTIONS AND WEBSITE 

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Photographic prints and negatives from unique historic collections, including calotypes, glass and film negatives, slides and lantern slides

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Historic and modern maps of Rome and Italy, printed or engraved

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Loose and bound miscellaneous prints of varying techniques including engraving, etching, lithograph and woodcut

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Correspondence, reports and documents relating to the history and activities of the British School at Rome

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Hand-written documents including travel notebooks and archaeological notes taken in the field, often illustrated, essays and other texts

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Miscellaneous watercolours and works of art on paper

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Bound sketch books and miscellaneous loose pencil drawings

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Historic collections of miscellaneous commercial postcards

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