{"id":48,"date":"2017-10-20T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:49:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:49:36","slug":"digital-assets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/digital-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We have a modest and growing collection of digital assets relating to the School&#8217;s past, present and future. This strand of work is in collating, archiving, organising and making this data available for interested parties.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of types of digital assets include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Software and data sets produced as part of Research activities<\/li>\n<li>Technical Reports published via the School<\/li>\n<li>Conference reports and other publications by the School or relating to events hosted \u00a0by the School<\/li>\n<li>Artwork commissioned by the School for public spaces<\/li>\n<li>Photographs from events<\/li>\n<li>Databases and catalogues of historic hardware artefacts<\/li>\n<li>Archives of historic websites published by the School or its members<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An example of a successful endeavour carried out by the group was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/computing\/research\/theses\/\">digitising of all PhD theses ever awarded by the School<\/a>, such that the whole collection was available to download in PDF format. To our knowledge, at the time, we were the only UK University department to have achieved this.<\/p>\n<p>We are working to make more of our collection generally accessible.<\/p>\n<h3>Specific collection notes<\/h3>\n<p>Timelapse photography of the construction of the Urban Sciences Building: approx. 47,500 pictures taken between 2015-2017 totalling 120G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a modest and growing collection of digital assets relating to the School&#8217;s past, present and future. This strand of work is in collating, archiving, organising and making this data available for interested parties. Examples of types of digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/digital-assets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4746,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/cs-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}