List of figures
The copyright for the images reproduced in this book belongs to the individual EAP grant holders. However, as part of the Endangered Archives Programme conditions of award, grant holders give consent that EAP can share information submitted as part of a project. We would nevertheless like to thank all the EAP grant holders who have provided these photographs as part of their project archive. Drawn illustrations were produced by Anne Leaver.
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EAP650, Archiving Afro-Colombian history in Caloto Viejo, Colombia. Photo © Thomas Desch Obi, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP704, En route to Marawe Krestos, Ethiopia. Photo © Michael Gervers, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP700, Preserving the manuscripts of the Jaffna Bishop’s House, Sri Lanka. Photo © Appasamy Murugaiyan, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP329, A peripatetic project digitising Acehnese manuscripts in rudimentary circumstances, Indonesia. Photo © Fakhriati Thahir, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP039, Photographing Buddhist manuscripts in Bhutan. Photo © Karma Phuntsho, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP524, The St Helena Government Archives, Jamestown. Photo © Andrew Pearson, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP627, A fragile manuscript from Paraíba, Brazil. Photo © Courtney Campbell, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP643, Manuscripts prepared for digitisation, Bengal. Photo © Abhijit Bhattacharya, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP488, An EAP team in action, Mali. Photo © Sophie Sarin, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP644, Camera and scanner used in parallel, Beirut. Photo © Yasmine Chemali, CC BY 4.0. |
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Example histograms. Photos © Patrick Sutherland, CC BY 4.0. |
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Greyscale and colour checker. Photo © Patrick Sutherland, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP704 Däbrä Abbay and EAP526 May Wäyni, Ethiopia. Photo © Michael Gervers, CC BY 4.0. |
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Electronic grids assist with the alignment of objects when copying. Photo © Patrick Sutherland, CC BY 4.0. |
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EOS Utility. Photo © Patrick Sutherland, CC BY 4.0. |
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Copy stand with angled lights. Illustration © Anne Leaver, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP524, Camera and copy stand in situ in the St Helena Government Archives. Photo © Andrew Pearson, CC BY 4.0. |
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Diagram of copy stand in reversed position. Illustration © Anne Leaver, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP769, Digitising using a tripod with a central column in Montserrat. Photo © Nigel Sadler, CC BY 4.0. |
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Tripod with horizontal copy arm. Illustration © Anne Leaver, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP698, Digitising Cham manuscripts in Vietnam. Photo © Hao Phan, CC BY 4.0. |
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Finding a solution when your copy stand breaks: EAP569, Using a weaving loom to digitise Nzema cultural material from Ghana. Photo © Samuel Nobah, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP454, Relying on basic desk lamps as the field workers move around the remote area of Mizoram, India. Photo © Kyle Jackson, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP764, Blocking out sunlight when digitising material from Bandiagara, Mali. Photo © Fabrizio Magnani, CC BY 4.0. |
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Drawn illustration showing the flashgun/umbrella set-up angled at 45 degrees to the copy surface. Illustration © Anne Leaver, CC BY 4.0. |
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Equipment set-up for digitising glass plate negatives using a copy stand and a light box. Illustration © Anne Leaver, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP563, Scanning photographs from the Hume family collection, Argentina. Photo © Silvana Lucia Piga, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP086, A temporary scanning set-up while digitising photographs in a monastery in Laos. Photo © Martin Jürgens, CC BY 4.0. |
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Preventing light appearing in an image. Photos © Elizabeth Hunter, CC BY 4.0. |
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Building up foam beneath a bound book with a tight spine. Photos © Elizabeth Hunter, CC BY 4.0. |
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Step-by-step method for opening and supporting a folded map that is included within a bound book. Photos © Elizabeth Hunter, CC BY 4.0. |
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Diagram showing the correct brushing direction for a bound volume. Illustration © Anne Leaver, CC BY 4.0. |
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Book diagram and book binding terminology. Illustrations © Anne Leaver, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP703, Digitising notary books in Bahia, Brazil. Photo © João Reis, CC BY 4.0. |
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Example document tracking form. Photo © Andrew Pearson, CC BY 4.0. |
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Example digitisation tracking form. Illustration © Andrew Pearson, CC BY 4.0. |
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A field-based system for backup. Illustration © Andrew Pearson, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP256, Listing taking place alongside photography in Tamale, Ghana. Photo © Ismail Montana, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP526, Theory meets practical realities in Ethiopia. Photo © Michael Gervers, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP688, Fragile subjects. Photo © Kenneth Morgan, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP061, A custom-made copy stand, Indonesia. Photo © Amiq Ahyad, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP698, On the road in Vietnam. Photo © Hao Phan, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP334, Digital preservation of Wolof Ajami manuscripts of Senegal. Photo © Fallou Ngom, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP627, Staff training in Paraíba, Brazil. Photo © Courtney Campbell, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP524, Historic doodles. Photo © Andrew Pearson, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP051, BBC World Service radio programme on the importance of Bamum manuscripts, Cameroon. Photo © Konrad Tuchscherer, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP596, Newspaper cuttings photographed as part of the Anguilla EAP’s ‘Digitisation Day’. Photo © Andrew Pearson, CC BY 4.0. |
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EAP177, Delivering the goods: hard drives ready for postage from Laos. Photo © Martin Jürgens, CC BY 4.0. |