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Arranging and Describing Collections of Photographs for DRI

When

Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 11:00

Where

Online

Tickets

This course is open to individuals from Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) member organisations. Booking essential.

This webinar will introduce techniques for effectively processing, arranging, and describing digital collections of photographs.

You’ll explore practical solutions to improve organisation and access to collections with photographic materials and learn more about the ways in which archival description has adapted to the unique challenges presented by digital resources.

You’ll explore practical solutions to improve organisation and access to collections with photographic materials and learn more about the ways in which archival description has adapted to the unique challenges presented by digital resources.

This will help develop your visual literacy skills, devise practical solutions to processing and digitising large collections, and introduce the common metadata standards and controlled vocabularies that help to facilitate access.

This course is open to individuals from Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) member organisations.

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