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| Project start date: 2005-12 | Project end date: 2009-03 |
The High Wycombe Furniture Archive (HWFA) is part of the Research Centre for Furniture at Buckinghamshire New University in High Wycombe. The archive contains photographic and print material relating to furniture companies in the High Wycombe region, primarily from Ercol Limited, E. Gomme Limited (G-Plan) and furniture industry union related records.
This project is concerned with the digitisation of this collection resulting in an interface (website) that will make this primary material available to scholars, researchers, students and the interested general public.
| Methods used | Category |
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| 2d scanning and photography | Data capture |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
The sources are held in Bucks New University's (formerly Buckinghamshire Chiltern University College) Faculty of Creativity and Culture within the High Wycombe Furniture Archive (in the Furniture Research centre). The sources are Ercol furniture ltd, Furniture Industries Limited, JW Skull, E.Gomme Ltd, GPlan, Amalgamated furniture trades and Union records.
The analogue material is composed of a range of items, these being;
Black white Negatives
Black white prints - large format
Black white glass positives
Colour slides (35 mm)
Colour negatives (35 mm)
Working drawings - scale 1:2
Water colour images
Colour brochures
Black white brochures
Black white recorded minutes in annual bound volumes
The captured images are held on a server as master files in TIFF format
The digital resources are images captured from the analogue collection. They are seen in jpeg form on the webpages currently not live. They are being collated on our server as masters, with jpeg surrogates which are used on the website.
The themes are,
People
Furniture anufacturing
Factories
Furniture models
Room sets
Designs and artwork
Advertising and promotions
Written or corporate records
Furniture industry records
High wycombe furniture history
Moving image and sound
The purpose of capturing and displaying these items is to ensure that they are disseminated and made available as research resource material for interested parties and particularly for their preservation.
Production of compressed JPEG files from uncompressed TIFF files for web dissemination
Kaner, Jake and Grover, Sharon. "The High Wycombe Furniture Archive." Art Libraries Journal Vol. 32 No. 3 (2007): 41-47.
| Other institutions involved: |
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| Buckinghamshire New University |
| Principal staff member: | Professor Jake Kaner; Mrs Sharon Grover |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: | We received advise at the early stages of the project from VADS concerning technical matters for both software selection and image capture devices |
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| This project description was developed as part of the ICT Guides project. |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Jake Kaner |
| Title | Creation of High Wycombe furniture electronic archive |
| Record created | 2008-03-12 |
| Record updated | 2010-01-27 14:31 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2284 |
| Citation of record | Jake Kaner: Creation of High Wycombe furniture electronic archive . <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2284> created: 2008-03-12, last updated 2010-01-27 14:31 |
