SEPIA publications



  SEPIADES Cataloguing photographic collections
by Yola de Lusenet and Edwin Klijn
 


This report provides background information on the SEPIADES (SEPIA Data Element Set) advisory report and software tool (see below: SEPIADES - Recommendations for cataloguing photographic collections). SEPIADES is a multi-level data element set to catalogue photographic collections. Apart from 21 core elements, it contains many suggestions for use of specific, detailed elements. The report explains about the motives behind SEPIADES, providing an introduction to both the model and the software tool. It is aimed at all those involved in cataloguing photographic collections, both cataloguers and decision makers.

Copies of the report can be ordered on-line (16 euros plus postage and handling costs, see: http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/publications.html ) or downloaded from the ECPA website free of charge.

View or download SEPIADES Cataloguing photographic collections
(PDF 1336 Kb).

This report is also available in Turkish, SEPIADES - Fotoğraf Koleksiyonlarını Kataloglamak (2008), translated by Turgay Demirel see: http://www.tubish.com/trinformation.htm
  Care of Photographs
by Susie Clark and Franziska Frey
 


An introductory text on photographic collections for nonspecialists in heritage institutions. The text explains the nature of photography, discusses preservation issues and the role of digitization for access and preservation.

View or download Care of Photographs (PDF 608 KB).

In 2007 Turgay Demirel, a collector of photographs, made a Turkish translation of this publication, Fotoğraf Bakımı. For a link to the PDF see: http://www.tubish.com/trinformation.htm

In January 2009, in the framework of a workshop on the preservation of photographs conducted by Nora Kennedy and Debra Norris and other international experts, the Arab Image Foundation (AIF) (http://www.fai.org.lb) in Beirut, Lebanon, published an Arabic translation of Care of Photographs.
View or download the Arabic translation (pdf 1.57 KB)


  Changing Images.
The role of photographic collections in a digital age
 


Presentations held at the closing conference of the SEPIA project.

  Train the Trainers:
resources for planning courses on the preservation of photographic materials, developed in the framework of the SEPIA project (SEPIA)
 


Training opportunities specifically aimed at historical photographic collections are few and far between. For photographic preservation, there are very few experts and the subject is not taught at many schools. For those who manage photographic collections it is important to understand the full range of options available for keeping collections accessible over time. This course pack has been developed in the framework of the SEPIA project, a programme for activities relating to preservation and digitisation of historical photographic collections.

The CD is meant for trainers, not for students. The materials that are included should be regarded as examples. Trainers should feel free to adapt, expand or translate as they see fit. It includes general tips for organising a course, some example course models, PowerPoint presentations which could be used as a basis for lessons, a reading list, case studies, a list of ISO/ANSI standards, sample loanforms, condition reports and images of damaged photographic materials. The CD has been made as an internet application and can be viewed with any internet browser.
2003, Euros 20,00

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  Preservation issues in digitizing historical photographs
 


Guidelines for selecting and using scanning equipment for digitisation of historical photographs.
Preservation issues in digitizing historical photographs

The guidelines are also available in french:
La numérisation des photographies historiques et les enjeux de la conservation [PDF 1.801KB)
(traduction: Jean-Paul Gandolfo, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, Noisy-le-Grand, France)

  'SEPIADES'- Recommendations for cataloguing photographic collections
 
The Working Group on Descriptive Models has developed an advisory model for describing photo collections. The descriptive model is available on this site(4MB PDF), or can be ordered as a hard copy. In close cooperation with the working group a sofware tool has been made in which the recommendations are implemented. A beta release of this tool is now available on CD for evaluation purposes.
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  In the Picture. Preservation and digitisation of European photographic collections by Edwin Klijn and Yola de Lusenet
 
Data for this report were collected by a questionnaire distributed in December 1998 to well over 300 European institutions with photographic collections. About 140 responses were received and they form the basis of this report. 'In the Picture' describes the many ways in which European institutions manage their photographic collections in terms of preservation and digitisation.

2000, vi+69 pp. ISBN 90-6984-294-7 NLG 50.00 (€ 22.69)

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  Written in light: SEPIA conference on management of photographic collections
 
An open conference on the management of photographic collections closed off the activities at the end of the experimental year. The conference was held from 12-14 September 2000 in Kew at the Public Record Office.
  Digitisation of Photographic Collections for Preservation and Access: SEPIA expert meeting
 


Programme, conclusions and recommandations of the SEPIA expert meeting on "Digitisation of Photographic Collections for Preservation and Access", which was held in Paris, 24/25 January 2000.

Programme and Recommendations in English
Recommendations in French
Recommendations in Spanish
  Living Apart Together. Conservation and digitization of historical photographs.
 
Lecture given by Yola de Lusenet at the congress "Conservation Without Limits", organized by the Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki, August 2000).
  Research reports and accounts of the SEPIA working group meetings


 


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