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The Art of Documentation: Capturing the Art Collection

gcortes/ 9 March 202631 March 2026/ Art Collections, Cultural Heritage Digitisation, Edinburgh College of Art, Museum Collections

Brightly coloured painting of model houses with lush greenery in the background. — Disaster Painting 2, Esther Forse (EU6028)

For the last two years we have been working on an exciting project to digitise the University of Edinburgh’s Art Collection. This has been a joint effort between both the Conservation and Collections Management and CHDS teams to create new visual records of the University of Edinburgh’s impressive Art Collection.

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Mar 9, 2026

CHDS DAMS Internship Experience

diuadm/ 28 July 202311 February 2026/ Archive Collections, Art Collections, Cultural Heritage Digitisation, Library, Museum Collections

Shelves containing old books from University of Edinburgh Library's Special Collections. Shelves are behind glass which has the phrase 'Thair to Remain' and the dates 1878, 1962 & 1967 stencilled onto the glass.

Over the past 6 months, I have had the pleasure of working with the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service team as a DAMS (Digital Asset Management System: software used to manage digital heritage collections) Assistant, working to build the foundations for the migration of these collections from the current DAMS (LUNA) to the new Digital Collections Platform (Archipelago). Continue reading “CHDS DAMS Internship Experience”

Jul 28, 2023

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